Enhancing Engineer Jointness and Future Joint Engineer C2 for Global Engagement,

Abstract

President Clinton clearly outlines his priorities in our National Security Strategy that America must continue to be an unrelenting force for peace throughout the world. This project analyzes the Global Engagement Strategy through a jointness review of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 to highlight Peace Operations and MTW Readiness. The results of the analysis with historical examples outline command and control of joint engineers as an issue. This project recommends a follow-on Goldwater-Nichols Act to improve joint engineering through the functional alignment of engineers by establishing a Unified Engineer Command (USENCOM). Additional recommended improvements for enhancing engineer jointness are: (1) Update the current joint doctrine on command and control of engineers; (2) Establish a strategic theater-level engineer Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL); and (3) Keep the heavy division Engineer Brigade in the Force XXI design for 2010 and beyond.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 09, 1998
Accession Number
ADA364563

Entities

People

  • Don C. Young

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Maintenance
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control