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Date & Time: January 5, 2012 / 1230 - 1400 HrsLocation: National Defense University, Lincoln Hall, Room 1107
Please join the Center for Complex Operations and members of the National Defense University for a special presentation by Mr....
Here is the latest edition of PRISM Vol. 3 No. 1
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Nov 2, 2011
The Col. Arthur D. Simons Center for Study of Interagency Cooperation is sponsoring a nationwide Writing Competition, which is open to the public.
Participants are encouraged to submit papers focused on one of two special topics:
- The Interagency role in preventing conflict when dealing with failing or failed states; or
- The validity of the "whole-of-government" approach in dealing with the full range of homeland and national security threats.
The first place entry will receive $2,000, an engraved plaque, a certificate of recognition and publication in one of the Simons Center publications series. Second place will receive a $1,000 award, a certificate of recognition and consideration for publication. Third place will receive $500, a certificate and also consideration for...
Oct 4, 2011
Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium
The Peace Operations Policy Program is proud to present the following in its "Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium Series" of events:
Running a Province During a Period of Reconstruction and Transition: The Case of Lagham Province in Afghanistan
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Location: George Mason University3351 Fairfax Drive, "Founders Hall"--Room 113Arlington, Virginia 22201(Virginia Sq/GMU Metro station) http://info.gmu.edu/ArlingtonMap10.pdf
Speaker: Governor Mohammed Iqbal Azizi
Governor Mohammed Iqbal Azizi is visiting the United States on a U.S. Department of State grant this autumn and will be sharing his thoughts on the challenges he has experienced managing Lagham Province in Afghanistan. Azizi succeeded...
Sep 29, 2011
Joint Interagency Task Force–South (JIATF–South) is well known within the U.S. Government as the “gold standard” for interagency cooperation and intelligence fusion. It is often cited as a model for whole-of-government problem-solving, and other national security organizations have tried to copy its approach and successes. Despite the plaudits and attention, the way JIATF–South operates has only received superficial analysis. In fact, few people actually understand why JIATF–South works as well as it does or how its success might be replicated.
This study by the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University attempts to fill the gap in knowledge about JIATF–South as a model for crossorganizational collaboration. It traces the evolution of...
Sep 15, 2011
The QDDR says that conflict prevention and response should be elevated to a core mission of the State Department and USAID. What does that mean?
RL: Clearly, conflict prevention and response have been a major focus of the U.S. government for decades. But the QDDR demands a more systematic approach, symbolized in part by the recommendation to create a new Bureau for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, which will encompass S/CRS.
The QDDR recognizes conflict prevention as distinct from long-term development, high-level diplomacy, or military action. But it does not provide a hard and fast definition. A useful first step would be to develop a stronger consensus on what we mean by conflict prevention.
So is conflict preventable?
RL: My short answer is no. Conflict is inherent to the...
Sep 12, 2011
Here is the latest edition of PRISM Vol. 2 No. 4
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Sep 6, 2011
"Today, our country is undoubtedly safer and more secure than it was a decade ago. We have damaged our enemy, but the ideology of violent Islamist extremism is alive and attracting new adherents, including right here in our own country. With important 9/11 Commission recommendations outlined in this report still unfulfilled, we fail to achieve the security we could or should have...
"The terrorist threat will be with us far into the future, demanding that we be ever vigilant. Changing circumstances require that we regularly reassess our priorities and expenditures to determine what is needed to defend our country and people.
"Our terrorist adversaries and the tactics and techniques they employ are evolving rapidly. We will see new attempts, and likely successful attacks. One of our major...
Sep 6, 2011
The Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) the Center for Complex Operations (CCO) of the National Defense University , and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)hosted the first in a series of three workshops on “International Security Reform” on May 19, 2011. This workshop focused on international security reform with respect to the QDR and “Integrating Authorities, Budgets, Operations, and Training/Education.” Co-moderators included the Honorable Frank Kramer, former Assistant Secretary for Defense, Ambassador John E. Herbst (Ret.), Director of CCO, and Melanne Civic, Special Advisor to CCO from the Department State, Secretary's Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization.
The Workshop series examines the reform of existing...
Sep 6, 2011
Executive Summary
At least $31 billion, and possibly as much as $60 billion, has been lost to contract waste and fraud in America’s contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Much more will turn into waste as attention to continuing operations wanes, as U.S. support for projects and programs in Iraq and Afghanistan declines, and as those efforts are revealed as unsustainable.
This sobering, but conservative, estimate flows from nearly three years’ work by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, an independent and bipartisan panel created by Congress in 2008 to examine waste, fraud, abuse, accountability, and other issues in contingency contracting, and to make recommendations for improvement.
Much of the contingency-contract waste and fraud could have been...
Jul 26, 2011
Recently released book: Policing and COIN Operations: Lessons Learned, Strategies and Future Directionsby: Samuel Musa, John Morgan, and Matt Keegan
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Jul 21, 2011
U.S. and allied strategy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads. Fiscal pressures in the West, the end of the surge, the turnover of key areas to Afghan security forces, the drawdown of forces, and the preliminary efforts at reconciliation and reintegration add importance to the study of this topic.
Understanding War in Afghanistan aims to provide military leaders, civil servants, diplomats, and students with the intellectual basis that they need to begin to prepare for further study of or an assignment in Afghanistan. This book analyzes the land and its people, recaps Afghan history, and assesses the current situation. It also examines the range of choices for future U.S. policy toward Afghanistan.
General David Petraeus praises Understanding War in Afghanistan as "an outstanding primer for...
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