Defense Management Primer for Senior Leaders, 1st Edition

Abstract

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is the largest business enterprise on the planet. There are many ways to state its mission. I prefer the following: to recruit, organize, equip, train, educate, exercise, retain and maintain a Total Joint Force that is ready and prepared for war and operated forward to preserve, enforce, or compel the peace. This mission statement well captures the dual nature of the DOD business enterprise. There is an administrative practice focused on building, running and maintaining the Total Joint Force, and an operational practice focused on deploying and employing it in both peace and war. The combination of the two defines the art of defense management, which translates national security policy and strategy into capability and capacitya coevolution of ends, ways, and means.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 16, 2018
Accession Number
AD1124858

Entities

People

  • Doug Waters
  • Fred Gellert
  • Lou Yuengert
  • Richard Meinhart
  • Tom Galvin

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Community Of Practice
  • Congress
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Employment
  • Federal Budgets
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.