Theater Engagement Planning: An Interagency Opportunity.
Abstract
The 1997 National Security Strategy's "imperative of engagement" explicitly cites a range of interagency activities from diplomacy to military exercises necessary to successfully shaping the international environment to deter conflict and promote peace. Accordingly, the Chairman has established the Theater Engagement Plan (TEP), a new type of deliberate plan designed to better focus and manage the U.S. military contribution to regional engagement. The TEP process will require each CINC to develop a strategic concept for regional engagement in his area of responsibility, and to annually update a detailed 5-year implementation program. - The TEP process offers an opportunity to institutionalize the participation of agencies and organizations outside of the Department of Defense into military operational planning, and to encourage a shared interagency planning process for regional engagement. If supported by a standing National Security Council Interagency Working Group (IAWG) on Regional Engagement and a global interagency exercise program for engagement, the TEP process could simply the management of crosscutting interagency responsibilities. Agency progress toward accomplishing crosscutting tasks identified and approved by the IAWG could be monitored through the strategic planning and performance-monitoring process mandated in Government Performance Results Act of 1991
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 18, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA351762
Entities
People
- Mary L. Scala
Organizations
- Naval War College