KONSEPSI PENGELOLAAN PULAU TERDEPAN SEBAGAI FORWARD OPERATING BASE DALAM MEWUJUDKAN KEAMANAN NASIONAL (Sebuah Tinjauan Scenario Planning)

<p>Konsep pengelolaan pulau terdepan sebagai forward operating base pada prinsipnya membutuhkan harmonisasi program antara pemerintah sebagai pengelola pada tataran kebijakan dengan berbagai institusi lain pada tingkat yang lebih teknis. Kompleksitas masalah tersebut tidak hanya terpaku bagaimana menggelar unsur-unsur kekuatan militer di berbagai pulau terdepan. Perlu pendalaman melalui kajian ilmiah secara komprehensif guna mengulas aspek lingkungan strategis yang relevan. Analisis secara deskriptif kualitatif berbasis scenario planning difokuskan pada aspek-aspek keamanan nasional termasuk, tren ancaman serta dampak sosio ekonomi saat menentukan wilayah pulau terdepan sebagai basis pertahanan. Pengelolaan yang proporsional diharapkan tidak hanya mewujudkan keamanan nasional secara utuh namun juga berhasil meningkatkan taraf kesejahteraan daerah-daerah tersebut.</p><p><br />Kata Kunci: Forward Operating Base, Pulau Terdepan, Scenario Planning, Sosio Ekonomi, Tren Ancaman, dan Keamanan Nasional</p>

Combat Social Work at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan

This chapter includes a description of the author’s training and experience in the Iowa Army National Guard that prepared him for his deployment to Afghanistan. The author explains: How, at age 57, he decided to join the Iowa Army National Guard, with the goal of doing something about the huge problem: increasing numbers of military service related suicides. He discusses his experience of going through the Officer’s Basic Leadership Course to celebrating his 60th birthday but shortly afterwards he was sent to Afghanistan. He describes his year there as providing combat social work services in a setting where at any time, you could be subject to a rocket or motor attack. Among the challenges leading to lessons learned was establishing trust among his clients. All were reluctant to talk with a “shrink.” An especially moving section of his chapter was about conducting a critical incident debriefing after a mass casualty event.

Combat Social Work in Afghanistan, 2010–2011

This chapter presents an interview with a combat social worker who shares his experience of deployment to Afghanistan, initially assigned to the 344th Combat Support Hospital, U.S. Army Reserve. In Afghanistan, the author was attached to the Medical Combat Stress Control Detachment 1 and forward deployed as a combat social worker to Forward Operating Base Gardez. The author breaks down deployment into phases and describes the operational stress associated with each phase for deployed personnel and their families. As a result of their service, military personnel and their families undergo interpersonal and cultural transformations, including the development of profound relationships. This chapter points out the effects of loneliness, social isolation, and cultural disconnect on members of the military community as they navigate civilian society. The author offers lessons learned to social workers practicing with members of the military community, including preventing problems before they occur and viewing members of the military community through a sociocultural lens.

Contradictions of Counter-Insurgency and Peacebuilding

The Canadian intervention in Kandahar from 2005 to 2011 has mainly been based on the concept of stabilization. This is particularly true from 2009 to 2011. Stabilization had some successes in Kandahar. It also had important challenges. Contradictions remain to ensure best implementation on the ground. This article is based on firsthand experience in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT) and the Dand District Forward Operating Base (FOB). Using Kandahar as a case example, the author aims to provide policy recommendations to the Canadian Government to increase the effectiveness of future stabilization operations.