Regimental Effects Operations Center

The other LOOs pursued in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM counterinsurgency (COIN) R&D, governance/rule of law, Afghan National Security Force development, and IO are generally outside the purview of the COC. Operations chain reporting of these nonkinetic events served another important purpose as well. Since they were transmitted up the operations chain to Task Force Leatherneck, "feeding the beast" of higher headquarters with information was much easier.\n Way Ahead As effective as the effects cell and EOC concepts turned out to be, there was certainly room for improvement. [...]the analysis and influence of white cell personalities became integral to the work done in the EOC.