NSA Professor Releases Two Books on Very Different Subjects By MC1 Leonardo Carrillo
National Security Affairs Distinguished Professor Dr. Tom Bruneau displays his two recently published titles, "Patriots for
Profit: Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security" and "Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central
America" (coauthored) in his office on campus, Jan. 12. Bruneau’s extensive research and collaborative efforts resulted
in two works that tackle distinctly unique topics of national defense and civil-military relations.
In "Patriots for Profit," Bruneau takes an in-depth look at the issues concerning the replacement of military forces, in
recent conflicts, with civilian contractors and the effects and repercussions of such strategies. Bruneau raises the point
that, while the military is a representation of the U.S. government and controlled by elected representatives of the
American people, contractors work under little public control and limited legal authority.
In coauthoring "Maras," Bruneau collaborated with Lucia Dammert of the Global Consortium on Security Transformation
and Elizabeth Skinner of NATO's Allied Command Transformation in collecting a series of essays and studies from
multiple experts in the study of the history, organization and propagation of the Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street
gangs that originated in Los Angeles and have been growing in prominence and influence in the United States and
North and Central America, and are becoming increasingly more and more dangerous.
Defense Institution Building Conference
Final Report
About This Event:
On June 20-21, 2011, the Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability
Operations (PSO) sponsored the Defense Institution
Building (DIB) Conference, the fi rst major USG conference
devoted solely to this subject. Held in Arlington, Virginia, the
Conference brought together more than 180 mid-to senior level
government officials and practitioners representing the
stakeholder groups involved in Defense Institution Building.
As defined in Conference materials, DIB encompasses the
U.S. and Allied programs, structures, and processes used
to develop effective, efficient, and accountable partner
defense establishments, to include Ministries of Defense,
Joint/General Staffs and Commands, and the supporting
institutions of the Armed Forces.
Responding to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' call
to focus on building partner-nation defense institution
capacity and capabilities, the two-day Conference was
an opportunity for policy-makers, security cooperation
professionals, DIB-related providers and practitioners,
policy analysts, and representatives of the Combatant
Commands and Services to examine DIB challenges,
identify strategies and approaches, and discuss how the
Department is developing its approach to building defense
institutions.
The Conference also served as a launching event for
a series of smaller, focused workshops that will refine
approaches and establish best practices for use in the field.
The overall Conference program solicited participant views
and suggestions for future development in the conceptual,
programming, and implementation arenas.
Promoting Peacekeeping in the Asia-Pacific Posted by Walter D. Givhan / October 09, 2011
From DIPNOTE U.S. Department of State Official Blog
Major General Walter D. Givhan is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans,
Programs, and Operations in Department of State's
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
We have seen a dramatic growth in global demand for soldiers, police officers, and diplomats to serve
on international peacekeeping missions needed to stabilize some of the world's most challenging hotspots.
The United States is helping to meet that need through the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI),
an effort that has made significant progress toward addressing this demand by working with our
international partners to deliver the tools and training peacekeepers require for these critical missions.
In a recent visit to Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, I had a chance to see how GPOI has supported
our Asia-Pacific partners in their efforts to train and develop a new generation of leaders for the
increasingly complex peacekeeping missions of tomorrow. The United States has long been the world's top
financial contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations, providing on average more than one
quarter of the international organization's budget to support more than 100,000 "blue berets," military,
police, and civilians working to secure the peace and protect at-risk populations in 16 peacekeeping
missions around the world. In 2005, GPOI was launched to expand U.S. support for peacekeeping by providing
training, equipment, and other support to 59 partner countries and regional organizations.
I began my trip in Japan, where my team took part in a graduation ceremony of the GPOI's Senior Mission
Leaders Course in Tokyo. The Senior Mission Leaders Course is a collaborative multinational effort to
increase the number of leaders available for future missions, and one component of a larger effort
in growing peacekeeping partner countries' capacity and capabilities. The ultimate goal is to help
our partners create their own self-sustaining peacekeeping capabilities, so that they can join in
international efforts to help fragile states recover from conflict and rebuild.
GPOI co-sponsors this course with the Government of Japan, working through the Center for Civilian-Military
Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School. Also in attendance at the graduation was the Deputy Commander
of U.S. Forces Japan, Marine Brigadier General William B. Crowe, Deputy Director-General from the Japanese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Masafumi Ishii, and representatives from U.S. Pacific Command.
The 23 students attending this intensive two weeks of training hailed from nine countries across the
wider Asia-Pacific region: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan,
Philippines, and Thailand. They benefited from the vast cumulative experience of the course's senior
mentors and instructors who boasted varied backgrounds as senior military, law enforcement, and civilian
leaders in past and current peacekeeping missions. The senior mentors shared their own experiences with
students and helped run exercises that included problem solving in challenging scenarios.
My next stop was the Philippines, which is one of our most enduring partners in the Asia-Pacific region
on security and peacekeeping issues. The Philippines has a long history of peacekeeping, with contributions
to UN missions going back to the 1950s. In recent years, it has increased its commitment to UN peace
support operations and is presently in the top 30 of contributing countries with almost 900 deployed
peacekeepers. Current commitments include significant police and troop deployments to Darfur, Haiti,
Liberia, and Timor L'este, with smaller military observer deployments to Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire and on
the India-Pakistan border.
The Philippines became a GPOI partner in 2007, and State continues to work with them to provide
training, communications equipment, and upgrades to their peace support operations training center
at Camp O'Donnell. As I met with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, I congratulated them on their
achievements and encouraged them to continue progressing toward their goal of having one percent
of their 115,000 active military deployed on peacekeeping missions. A previous graduate of the
first Senior Mission Leaders course from 2009, Major General Natalio C. Encarma of the Philippines
was chosen to be the Force Commander for the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) mission in
the Golan Heights.
Indonesia is one of the top 20 countries in the world in providing peacekeepers and has committed
to doubling this number in the coming years. GPOI is actively supporting this effort by working with
the government of Indonesia to establish the Peacekeeping Training Center at Sentul, Indonesia.
This training facility is well along the way to initial operational capability and once completed
will be able to house and train about 1,500 peacekeepers.
Over time, we can be sure that the number of peacekeeping operations will only increase and become
more multi-faceted. For example, today, peacekeepers help post-conflict nations to implement the
strategy of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, and they also are committed to protecting
civilians. Peacekeepers must implement comprehensive UN strategies as they work to bring lasting
peace to war-torn areas such as Darfur, Sudan. We will need leaders capable of handling these increasingly
complex missions, and GPOI is ensuring they receive the training they need.
It is in all of our interests to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of peacekeeping, and I am proud
of how State and the Department of Defense are working together to make it happen. Through initiatives
such as GPOI building peacekeeping partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere, increased
diplomatic efforts to mediate conflicts, and U.S. engagement at the UN to further strengthen peacekeeping
capabilities and standards, the United States is ready now more than ever to do its part to promote peace.
Center for Civil - Military Relations (CCMR)
OSD Holds Inaugural DIB Conference
From the Global Center for Security Cooperation Semi-annual Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 2
The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations
(DASD PSSO), conducted a "Defense Institution Building" (DIB) Conference 20-21 June in Washington,
DC, bringing together over 180 US and foreign officials
and practitioners to discuss the challenges and future of working
with partner nations to build the capacity of their national defense
institutions.
The Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) worked in support of
the conference, which had sessions on key functional areas of DIB:
policy and strategy, planning and budgeting, human resource
management, logistics and infrastructure, defense education, civilmilitary
relations and interagency cooperation, and regional
challenges to building defense institutions, according to Roseann
Johnson, conference coordinator at CCMR, Naval Postgraduate
School.
Defense Institution Building (DIB) encompasses the US and Allied
programs, structures, and processes used to develop effective,
efficient, and accountable partner defense establishments, to
include Ministries of Defense, Joint/General Staffs and Commands,
and the supporting institutions of the Armed Forces. This two-day
conference convened stakeholders to discuss approaches and share
experiences on the challenge that Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates' call — to focus on building defense institution capacity within
partner nations — posed. Policymakers, DIB-related security
cooperation providers and practitioners, policy analysts, and
representatives of the Combatant Commands and Services
examined DIB challenges, identified strategies and approaches, and
discussed how to further develop this evolving issue. This conference served as
a launching event for a series of smaller, focused workshops, which will refine
approaches and establish best practices for use in the field. The overall
program solicited participant views and suggestions for future development in
the conceptual, programming, and implementation arenas.
The Office of the DASD PSSO sponsored the DIB Conference and reports to the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low-Intensity Conflict and
Inter-Dependent Capabilities (ASD SO/LIC&IC). Detailed information about the
event can be accessed at http://defenseinstitutionbuilding.org/.
From R-L: Center for Civil-Military Relations Director Rich Hoffman discusses Defense Institution Building and partnership support with David Cate, Director of Coalition Affairs and Partnership Programs in OSD(Policy), and Dr. James Schear, DASD for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations.
Jeanne Giraldo, Defense Institution Reform Initiative
Program Manager, leads a dynamic breakout session on 'Regional Challenges in Building Defense Institutions.'
Article highlights the IDARM Program's recent work in the Czech Republic
Course managing Complex Defence Projects Finished
LTC Pavel Foltin, PhD
Czech University of Defence
10th June 2011 officially ended the Course 'Managing Complex Defense Projects.' The course was conducted
at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Defence in cooperation with the International
Defense Acquisition Resource Management Program of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, with the
support of the U.S. Embassy in Prague. The course would focus on issues of major acquisition projects
in the field of defense, multi criteria decision making, defining the required capabilities and assessing
their significance. Course was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Defense for acquisition,
Army of the Czech Republic and the academic staff of the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of
Defence. The content of the course and also praised the contribution of the course participant from the
Military Technical Academy in Belgrade, Lt. Col. Momčilo Djordjević.
The first part of the course was followed with part two, which occurred on 13th and 14th June 2011 in Prague, at the Division of Force Development — Operations Section of the Ministry of Defence.
The second part of the course will be designed for managing Department of Defense and the Army
of the Czech Republic.
Photos by Mgr. Zdeňka Dubová
Defense Institution Building Conference
June 20-21, 2011
Washington, DC, USA
The United States has made great strides in building up the operational
capacity of its partners by training and equipping troops and mentoring them in the field. But there
has not been enough attention paid to building the institutional capacity (such as defense ministries)
or the human capital (including leadership skills and attitudes) needed to sustain security
over the long term.
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
"Helping Others Defend Themselves," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010
Definition:
Defense institution building (DIB) encompasses the U.S. and Allied programs, structures, and processes
used to develop effective, efficient, and accountable partner defense establishments, to include Ministries
of Defense, Joint/General Staffs and Commands, and the supporting institutions of the Armed Forces.
Conference Description:
This two day conference will convene stakeholders to discuss approaches and share experiences on the challenge
that Secretary Gates' call — to focus on building defense institution capacity within partner nations — poses.
Policymakers, DIB-related security cooperation providers and practitioners, policy analysts, and representatives
of the Combatant Commands and Services will examine DIB challenges, identify strategies and approaches,
and discuss how to further develop thisevolving issue. This conference will serve as a launching event
for a series of smaller, focused workshops, which will refine approaches and establish best practices for
use in the field. The overall program will solicit participant views and suggestions for future development
in the conceptual, programming, and implementation arenas.
Why You Should Attend:
Participants will:
Explore the nature and scope of DIB: What is it? What are the reasons for attempting to do it?
What are the risks?
Discuss the challenges associated with developing an effective approach to DIB: Where and how can
we most effectively conduct DIB?
Expand and build the DIB "community of interest" (stakeholders and practitioners) to develop a
shared understanding of approaches, best practices, and lessons learned in DIB.
Who Will Attend:
Approximately 200 mid- to senior-level government officials and practitioners representing the various
stakeholder groups involved in DIB will attend. Specific organizations and individuals will be sought
via invitation. To ensure a comprehensive range of constituencies, some applicants may not be selected
to attend.
Methodology:
The conference format will be interactive, and will include a combination of presentations,
moderated plenaries, and facilitated breakout discussions to meet identified objectives.
Conference participants and staff members from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
will serve as panelists, as well as deliver conference sessions and modules. A tentative agenda
is available online at:
http://www.defenseinstitutionbuilding.org.
Specific Dates:
The conference begins 0900 Monday, June 20, and concludes at 1800, Tuesday, June 21, 2011.
Registration for the event occurs from 1700-1900 Sunday, June 19, and again starting 0800 Monday,
June 20.
Accommodations:
The event will be held at a Washington, DC, area conference facility. Lodging will be available at or
very near the site. Participants attending the conference may make reservations under a designated block
of rooms; all accommodation expenses will be participants' own responsibility.
Cost:
The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations
(SO/LIC (PSO)) is sponsoring this conference. There is no conference fee.
Participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and meals. Ample time for a lunch break
will be allotted each day. Coffee/tea breaks will be provided gratis.
Application:
Demand for this conference will likely exceed capacity. Admission decisions will be announced on a rolling
basis starting May 18, 2011, until all seats are filled. Please submit your application through the
DIB website: http://www.defenseinstitutionbuilding.org.
Executive Program in Defense Decision-Making for Indonesia
11-22 April 2011
Members of the Executive Program in Defense Decision-Making for Indonesia participate in a classroom
lecture at the Casa Munras conference center, April 21. More than 30 Indonesian military and defense-related
civilians participated in the two-week course, held April 11-22. The course, developed and hosted by NPS' Center
for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), focused on three broad themes, with multiple presentations by faculty from
the National Security Affairs department and CCMR.
"CCMR is a very relevant and agile organization," said Malley. "Our flexibility and responsive efforts allowed
us to create this course on short notice at the request of Indonesia's Office of Defense Cooperation. Throughout
the course, we engaged in very dynamic and vigorous discussions with the participants. This experience has proved
to be a great endeavor for the students, but also has provided a learning environment for the faculty as well."
CCMR was established at NPS in 1994 and provides graduate level education to foreign civilian and military
participants through resident and non-resident courses. Its programs assist foreign nations in resolving civil-military
issues resulting from defense transformation, stability and support operations, combating terrorism,
and other security challenges.
Working in the Same Space
The Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies presented a short course titled
Working in the Same Space March 14 – 17, 2011 in Monterey, California, USA. The workshop
emphasized cross-community understanding and communication skills that focus on ways in which
government civilian agencies, non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations
and the armed forces can work more effectively alongside each other in insecure environments.
44 participants from 12 countries were exposed to the organizational cultures, capacities and
motivations of these diverse communities, as well as current and emerging issues
from each community.
Joint Humanitarian Operations Course
(Session I: May 2-3, 2011 / Session II: May 4-5, 2011)
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US military routinely respond to overseas
disasters and participate in relief efforts alongside each other. This course, designed and conducted
by USAID and hosted by the NPS Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS) provides a
forum for US military personnel to discuss relationships between USAID, its partners and the US military,
enhancing their ability to work collaboratively during humanitarian assistance and disaster
response operations.
This course is designed for US military participants and is free for NPS students.
Sign up at: www.csrs-nps.org.
Farming seen as road to recovery
By KEVIN HOWE
Monterey Herald Staff Writer
Military and civilian experts gathered in Monterey this week at a conference, "Agriculture: Promoting
Livelihoods in Conflict-affected Environments," sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School's Center
for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies, to talk about how to restore war-torn areas of the world.
"In most places that are destabilized or need reconstruction," said participant James Bright, senior advisor
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, "the whole economy is agriculture-based."
Bright spent a year in Iraq as a member of a provincial response team of civilians embedded with the U.S. military
to work on stabilizing the country.
A colleague from USDA, John Mott, another participant, did similar work in Afghanistan.
Mott noted that Congress established the Civilian Response Corps, made up of experts from various departments
of the U.S. government: Agriculture, the departments of Energy, Commerce and Justice, to "form teams to go
into areas the U.S. government deems of interest" to further stabilization and recovery.
Lawyer Daniel Millares of Bolivia, justice and peace manager for the Organization of American States'
Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, said his area of interest is in the return of approximately
4.5 million people displaced into neighboring countries by the long guerrilla war waged between the Colombian
government and FARC — Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia — the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
"There are groups that can't return," he said, even though the country is calling for them to come back
from their refuges in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, fearful of being killed. "Human security is a main issue."
Their lands have been occupied by others in their absence, Millares said, and unraveling the chain of land
ownership and title conflicts is one of his focuses of interest.
"I didn't realize how many farmers are affected by conflict," said Nona Fisher, senior program officer
for the Enterprise and Agricultural Group of Arkansas-based Winrock International, when she began her work
in agricultural development in 1993.
Winrock has workers in 30 to 40 countries and operates on a $40 million budget, she said.
"I thought the problem was low income. Economics. But the roots are in conflict. It destroys infrastructure,
you can't go to school, you can't farm."
Her last assignment in Sudan included road trips where drivers were warned not to pull off
the highway because of land mines.
The conference drew 45 participants from the United States, Africa, Latin America and Asia,
and included military officers, civilian government workers, international government organizations
and nongovernment organizations, said Matthew Vaccaro, program director for the Center for Stabilization
and Reconstruction Studies.
The conference opened Monday at the Casa Munras Hotel and will continue through Thursday.
CCMR supports 2010 Yudh Abhyas Exercise in Alaska
CCMR provided exercise control and subject matter expertise to the U.S. Army Pacific and the Indian
Army annual joint and bilateral command post exercise Yudh Abhyas 2010 from 1-14 November at Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. The objective of the exercise is to establish and enhance relationships
between the partner forces while expanding operational and cultural knowledge with a focus
on peacekeeping operations.
"The exercise is designed to build lasting friendships through the promotion of cooperation among
our two great democracies while sharing training, cultural exchanges, and improving partner readiness,"
said U.S. Army Alaska Deputy Commander Col. Mark S. Lowe, acting exercise director.*
Brigade staff from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division and Indian Army officers
from the 62nd Brigade and 5th Parachute Regiment trained as a combined brigade staff in a United Nations
Peacekeeping scenario. The 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (California National Guard) and their
Indian Army counterparts served as the UN Force Headquarters.
Navy Lieutenant Michael Ryan, an NPS student in the National Security Affairs Department, served on the
CCMR evaluation team. "My participation in Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2010 was both personally and professionally
rewarding. It afforded me the opportunity to not only learn about a new and considerably different culture,
but also to work in a joint-service, international environment."
Marine Captain Tobin Walker, a recent NPS Alumnus and future Foreign Area Officer to India, also served
as part of the CCMR evaluation team. "Having just completed a year of HIndi study at the Defense Language
Institute, YUDH ABHYAS provided me with an excellent opportunity to practice speaking Hindi and test my
ability to communicate in a real world situation."
*Note: "USARAK, and Indian Army conduct Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2010," Frontier India, November 3, 2010. http://frontierindia.net/usarak-and-indian-army-conduct-exercise-yudh-abhyas-2010
Defense Procurement and Contracting Workshop Brno, Czech Republic
The International Defense Acquisition Management (IDARM) Program conducted the
"Defense Procurement & Contracting Workshop" 20 to 23 September, 2010 at the University
of Defence in Brno, Czech Republic. The workshop was planned and arranged as a result of
joint agreements among the US Embassy, Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC), the Czech
Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Czech Defense University and the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS). The primary goal was to assist the Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries and the
Czech Republic with the challenges of defense procurement.
A total of 22 students participated in the workshop representing five countries: Czech Republic,
Moldova, Serbia, Macedonia and Georgia. The workshop consisted of a combination of plenary sessions,
and working groups in which participants identified opportunities for improvement in their respective
procurement systems. The working group sessions culminated on the final day of the workshop with
findings which identified 1) opportunities for specific functional areas represented in the workshop
to improve their knowledge of defense procurement and 2) opportunities to enhance the efficiency and
effectiveness of each of the participants' national procurement systems.
The IDARM program plans to work with the Czech Defense University for follow on events in 2011.
2010 Partnership for Peace Transformation Seminar
From 27-30 September 2010, a Center for Civil-Military Relations -led team of Naval
Postgraduate School, Allied Command Transformation, Joint Forces Command and US Army Command
and General Staff College faculty presented the 2010 Partnership for Peace Transformation Seminar
(ACT 235.4) in Norfolk, Virginia. This is the third iteration of the PfP Transformation course,
and the first to be held in the United States. National representatives from Austria, Georgia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Armenia, and Jordan were in attendance.
The seminar is designed to assist PfP and Mediterranean Dialogue partners with addressing
the operational challenges of the future security environment. It provides a framework
to evaluate the applicability of technological advances, new organizational configurations,
process improvements, and people oriented adaptations. NATO concepts and prototypes are utilized
to generate prospective solutions to improve joint warfare and crisis response capabilities.
Through interactive presentations and practical exercise working groups, the seminar strives
to build consensus amongst participants of the value of applying transformational principles
for responding to principal threats, utilizing a capabilities-based defense planning methodology.
This course is representative of the educational outreach that NPS can provide as NATOs
only US-based Partnership for Peace Training and Education Center (PTC). NPS faculty work
closely with ACT and other defense agency counterparts to design and execute a challenging
curriculum that highlights contemporary issues of interest to Partner nations, including
Comprehensive Approach, Hybrid Threats, and Network-Enabled operations. NPS faculty that
participated included Sue Higgins, Cebrowski Institute, Dan Moran, National Security Affairs,
and Scott Jasper, Scott Moreland, in the Center for Civil Military Relations.
Photo: LTC Richard Hills, HQ Allied Command Transformation.
Director of Cairo Regional Center visits Center for Civil-Military Relations
Ambassador Mahmoud Farghal, Director, Cairo Regional Center for Training on Conflict Resolution
and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA) and Dr. Alaa Abd Alaziz, Head of Programs, recently visited the
Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey. They met with key leaders of the Naval Postgraduate
School, CCMR and the National Security Affairs Department with the goal of learning more about CCMR
and discussing areas of common interest and capability. The visit was coordinated by Dr. Robert
Springborg who is a subject matter expert on the region.
National Security Affairs Professor Sandra Leavitt addresses attendees of the Center for Civil-Military Relations sponsored 2010 Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Commons conference in Virginia Beach, Va. The conference explored the various actors in the Global Commons, with a focus on how U.S. military involvement in these areas can maintain security for U.S. and allied interests.
"Our goal at this conference is to better understand the nature and impact of cooperation and conflict dynamics within and among the commons, where competing interests and motivations potentially threaten security and prosperity," said NPS President retired Vice Adm. Dan Oliver, a guest speaker at the conference.
"The global commons are so diverse," said retired Lt. Gen. James Soligan, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability Development for NATO's Allied Command Transformation. "The real purpose of the conference is to talk about those common interface mechanisms that allow us to deal with our collective security dilemmas. How do we deal with places in which no one nation has territorial responsibilities?"
The need to tackle this complex issue is a growing concern as the global marketplace brings more actors, both good and bad, into the Global Commons. "We need to address the enemy's capabilities as they manifest, specifically in the commons," said Rear Adm. Lawrence Rice, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Director of Strategy and Policy. "Make no mistake that risks to the orderly flow of trade and information comprise fundamental national security threats."
The conference was held in partnership with the National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies, USJFCOM Joint Futures Group, and NATO Allied Command Transformation. NPS professors Dan Moran, Anne Clunan, Sandra Leavitt, and Susan Hocevar were part of a panel discussion, with the author of this article, Scott Jasper, acting as moderator.
CCMR and GCMC cooperate on National Security Concept assistance to the Republic of Georgia
From July 26-28, Elisabeth Wright, Program Manager of the Center for Civil Military Relations led a George C. Marshall Center sponsored workshop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GE. Dr. Wright customized the content of the workshop to meet the needs of the Republic of Georgia in its efforts to develop a Whole of Government Approach to the development and implementation of its National Security Strategy.
In attendance were twenty-three Parliamentarians, members of the National Security Council and senior Ministerial civilian and military experts. Complementing Dr. Wright's efforts were distinguished speakers who provided expert remarks in the plenary. Of those, Professor Trevor Taylor and Professor Michael Ruediger, both subject matters experts representing CCMR, participated in the workshop as plenary speakers and facilitators of working groups. Dr. Wright provided remarks focused on the Whole of Government approach to capabilities based strategy while Professor Taylor discussed the components of effective national security strategy and the challenges faced in the United Kingdom. Professor Ruediger offered strategic assessment and risk assessment tools which the Georgians are keen to utilize. Additionally he discussed Germany's experiences in the area of national security reform.
This workshop was the second in a series of workshops planned throughout FY11. The next workshop is scheduled for January 2011 in Georgia. The success of the workshop, made possible through cooperation between GCMC and CCMR was evidenced in the laudatory remarks of Mr. Lasha Darlia senior member of the Georgian delegation.
CCMR Tackles Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security
Leaders from Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire and Gabon attended a Regional Maritime Security conference in Cameroon. Full Story
LDESP Prepares KFOR 14 for their Mission in Kosovo
The Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP) program conducted
a seminar from 4-6 August at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey to prepare KFOR 14
for their mission to "maintain a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for
all people in Kosovo."
The seminar provided the participants with an overview of the international community
in the country, and helped them understand how ethnicity, religion and demographics define
political realities and shape economic challenges in Kosovo today. Participants are provided
with the knowledge and tools to better interact with the people of Kosovo, assess the varied
facets of politics in Kosovo, predict expectations and reactions, adapt their mission to cultural
differences, partner with multinational forces and effectively engage in civil-military
activities in the KFOR area of operation.
The cadre of faculty presenting at the program included notable experts such as Dr. Bob Donia,
author of three books on former Yugoslavia, who served as an expert historical witness at the trial
of former Yugoslav President Milosovic at the Hague, Dr. Alfred Boll, Second Secretary,
Political-Economics Section, US Embassy, Pristina, Dr. Jens Bastian, Senior Economic Research
Fellow at ELIAMEP in Athens, Greece, and UK Army MG Drewienkiewicz who also testified at the Hague
and served as the Military Advisor to Lord Ashdown, the former High Representative in Bosnia.
On the second and third day of the seminar, the LDESP faculty oriented participants to the challenges
that KFOR faces in the country, the establishment of the Kosovo Police and ways to influence the attitudes
and behavior of internal and external partners in the country.
The panel discussion focused on key issues including the implications of statehood for Kosovo,
the challenges of operating within the politics of differences between "status committed" and
"status neutral" organizations, the recent ICJ ruling, EU integration and the future of Kosovo.
One of the main objectives of the LDESP program is to prepare participants to exercise good judgment
in a complex and ambiguous environment in ways that allow KFOR to be effective partners in the efforts
to build a sustained peace in Kosovo.
