Alternative UCP Structures for the Information Age.
Abstract
Reductions in force structure, increasing worldwide interconnectedness, and future warfighting concepts are all creating challenges to the way defense requirements can be best met for the next century. Through all this current and projected change, the structure and size of geographic unified commands has changed little. Focusing on daily nation-building, confidence and security building measures, and building regional interoperability may support the national security strategy, but may also cause too much myopia on CINC staffs by ignoring the increasing interaction in information exchanges, economic factors, and military coalitions on participation outside the AOR. There is also an increasing gulf between the military actions proposed in doctrine and documents like Joint Vision 2010 and the daily operations in many countries where the threats are primarily from internal strife caused by weak infrastructures and transnational threats. This paper proposes a number of alternative structures for geographic CINCS which address the changing security environment and may make better use of a shrinking force structure at a time when threats have become less easily qualified%and often belie a military response. Alternatives range from a dissolution of strictly geographic CINCS to a more modest reorganization within existing CINC structures which better utilize a limited number of joint billets and builds a bridge between the CINC headquarters and the troops deployed in theater, enhancing joint operations and expanding exposure to joint command and control.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 18, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA351775
Entities
People
- Janet K. Marnane
Organizations
- Naval War College