Garry Reid, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations & Combating Terrorism, discusses the DoD policy & strategic planning efforts in regards to Irregular Warfare (IW) at IDGA's Irregular Warfare event in Washington DC that took place in May 2010. He details the reason that the DoD is focusing on IW and how the security environment in the post Cold War era has created current conditions. He also talks about how gaining support of the local population is critical to success...