CCMR programs support the three DoD strategic objectives of:
- establishing security conditions conducive to a favorable international order
- strengthening alliances and partnerships to contend with common challenges and
- securing strategic access and retaining global freedom of action.
Civil-Military Relations
 The Civil-Military Relations (CMR) courses are tailored to address general or in depth aspects of civil-military relations, including civilian control of the military, media-military relations, building linkages between the military and the legislature, intelligence and democracy.
Peace Operations
 Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC) courses builds institutional peace support operations education and training for EIPC recipient countries worldwide.
The Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP) program prepares leaders and units deploying to Stability Operations, to accomplish the mission in cooperation with multinational partners, other US Agencies and civil authorities. It provides an educational foundation enabling leadership and units to establish a frame of reference for understanding the complex, ambiguous, and rapidly changing stability operations environment.
Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI)
is a comprehensive program which builds peace support operations (PSO) capability and capacity through education and training worldwide.
GPOI programs include the Cobra Gold Exercise; command post, military exercise (CPX), field training military exercise (FTX);
train the trainers (TTT); the EIPC program etc.
Since its inception, the GPOI Training Activity included the following countries:
Mongolia
- Hosted Khaan Quest 06 Capstone Exercise and will host Khaan Quest 07 Capstone Exercise. Multi-national Field and Command Post Exercises for GPOI program.
- Conducted one Staff Officer Course in June 06 and one instructors Course in January 07. Scheduled for a Staff Officers Course in June 07.
- Deployed personnel trained by GPOI to Sierra Leone, Iraq and the Congo.
Bangladesh
- Participated in Khaan Quest 06 Field and Command psot Exercises. Sent instructors to support exercise Management from their Peacekeeping Training Center.
- Scheduled to begin training of Instructors and Staff officers in 2007.
- Agreed to host Capstone Field and Command Post Exercise in 2008.
- Deployed to multiple UN Missions.
Thailand
- Program suspended due to Sanctions.
- Hosted first GPOI activity at Cobra Gold 2006—trained Thai and US personnel.
- Conducted Instructors course in January 2006—instructors formed cadre for conduct of Cobra Gold 2006 exercise.
- Deployed to Congo.
Fiji
- Program suspended due to Sanctions.
- Participated in Khaan Quest Command Post and Field Exercise.
- Deployed to Iraq as the UN protection force.
India
- Considering wider participation in the program.
- Self funded to Khaan Quest Field and Command Post Exercise.
- Deployed on UN Mission.
- Agreed in principle to host a Senior Mission leader program in cooperation with GPOI and the UN DPKO in 2007—multi-national.
- Agreed to conduct a Civil Military Cooperation course in 2007—Multi-national and International Inter-agency
Malaysia
- Participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Command Post Exercise.
- GPOI program baseline assessment conducted February 2007.
- Hosting to UN Logistics Courses in May and July 2007. Multi-national course for regional nations.
GPOI will fund attendance of some Malaysia will assume all in country costs for participants.
- Requested pre-deployment training support for 2nd Malaysia rotation into UNIFIL.
- Coordinating GPOI country action plan with government. Includes conduct of an Instructors
and Staff Course in 2007 and hosting Capstone Field and Command Psot Exercise in 2009/2010
- Keris Strike 2007 Command Post Exercise will be converted to a UN Peacekeeping event.
Indonesia
- Country Orientation to GPOI completed in January 2007.
- Garuda Shield Command Post Exercise will be supported by GPOI to introduce UN Peace Operations concepts
to the Training audience. Exercise will be conducted in June 2007.
- Indonesia participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Coomand Post Exercise.
Nepal and Sri Lanka
- Country briefings to national representatives and the US Country Team scheduled for June 2007.
- Sri Lanka and Nepal participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Command Post Exercise.
Summary
A unique aspect of the program has been the leveraging of existing training activities have made the content developed
to support GPOI available to other nations. An example of this is the Exercise program. These events come with other
money that allow a broader range of participants to interact with the GPOI nations. This more closely replicates
the operational environment nations will face during deployments. Having nations like India, Australia, the United Kingdom,
Korea and many others participate through self-funding or use of exercise funds greatly improves the quality of the exercise.
It allows US personnel to participate in these training events also. One comment from a US platoon that participated in
Khaan Quest 2006 was that they wished they had training this good prior to serving in Iraq. The full exposure to multi-national
and international interagency operations provides a realistic and challenging environment.
The cooperation with the United Nations coordinated through CCMR has lent the program a degree of credibility with nations that
would not be possible on a bi-lateral basis. Every time the program talks to a nation about participation in the program, the first
two questions they ask are:
- Is deploying to Iraq a requirement to participate in the program?
- Is the UN involved in the program?
If the answer to the first is yes or the answer to the second is no; then the program will not proceed in that nation.
The effort at multi-national and UN cooperation while respecting national decisions on deployment will be key in guaranteeing program success.
CCMR has just finished validation of its instructional curriculum with the Integrated Training Service of the United Nations Department
of Peacekeeping Operations. This allows the distribution of common curriculum to GPOI nations and partners that establish a minimum standard.
This enhances program and UN training goals in preparing nations for peace support operations.
GPOI is gaining respect as a program in the Asia Pacific and the international community.
International Defense Acquisition
The International Defense Acquisition Resource Mangement (IDARM) program offers a wide range of defense acquisition resource management courses that address acquisition, contracting, and program management. |
