"This publication documents the 3rd Infantry Division's experience serving as the Multi-National Division-Center during Operations Iraqi Freedom. Task Force Marne consisted of over 20,000 coalition soldiers, 27,000 Iraqi soldiers, and 47,000 Iraqi police responsible for an extensive operational area in the southern Baghdad belts during the historical and successful surge operation in Iraq"--Page i.

Cover title. "Jan 09." Part of the Army lessons learned documentation. "Official military and civil service/government personnel, to include all coalition and allied partners may paraphrase; quote; or use sentences, phrases, and paragraphs for integration into official products or research"--Page 2 of cover. Is not necessarily approved U.S. Army policy or doctrine. "These lessons are provided to follow-on units to allow you to enter Iraq cognizant of the changed situation and on a higher training step"--Page i. "The division commander captured and recorded lessons learned by components of the division in professional articles. This newsletter contains five articles containing key lessons dealing with: signal-specific issues in a counterinsurgency environment, division assistant chief of staff for information management (G6) and communications staff officer (S6) roles and relationships, communications support, and network-related topics discussing low bandwidth and fiber optics"--Page 1.

Introduction -- Signal support in counterinsurgency operations -- Tactical network optimization in a limited bandwidth environment -- Closing the gap : communications support for company-level and below warfighter -- The impact of modularity on the G6 and S6 relationship -- Fiber optic cable installation teams.