Supporting and Integrating Theater Security Cooperation Plans
Abstract
Almost since its inception the United States military has interacted with foreign militaries during peacetime. Each of the military services regularly conducted exchanges formally and informally to improve military capability or interoperability. Geographic commanders found engagement to be a useful tool to establish security cooperation and continue to conduct military interaction activities to support national security objectives during peacetime. Included in the areas engagement supported were Military Professionalization Support of Democratic Values Humanitarian Assistance Counterdrug and Counterterrorism. Following the publication of the 1995 National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement the Office of the Secretary of Defense regional commanders and the joint staff developed a formal peacetime engagement planning process. Through the process each Geographic Combatant Commander developed a regional strategic plan now referred to as the Theater Security Cooperation Plan that described the security environment identified engagement objectives and listed associated activities that supported those objectives. A criticism of engagement planning was that the plan was developed and executed with scarce resources and little chance to influence the Planning Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) for support. This Strategy Research Project examines the planning process and offers areas of improvement to better integrate and support Theater Security Cooperation Plans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 03, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA423731
Entities
People
- Gregory D. Hager
Organizations
- United States Army War College