Analyzes the need for cultural awareness among Soldiers, describes the elements necessary to create a cultural awareness training program and how this training will benefit the United States' efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, it won't be easy; a study of the current cultural environment concluded that a massive instructional effort is required to create sufficient military experts in even just one subset of one cultural area.This essay offers some solutions, including creating a new special cadre that will get total immersion in the culture, and describes how such a force will benefit the war effort.

Caption title. "November 2006."