The Annual Collins Center Senior Symposium: Aligning the Interagency Process for the War on Terrorism (Center for Strategic Leadership, Volume 11-05, June 2005)
Abstract
Charges have been levied, from both inside and out of the United States government, that the War on Terrorism is currently encumbered by an interagency process ill-suited for the task. That process, developed for the challenges of the Cold War, is characterized by stove pipe operations and resourcing initiatives in an era that demands an efficient integration of efforts for results. Endeavors to address failed/failing states, reconstruction and stabilization, and other diverse efforts focused on the underlying conditions that foster terrorism appear to be disjointed, with no central authority (save the President himself) to direct them. While the National Security Council (NSC) is tasked to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign and military policies related to the national security, critics contend that it has neither the charter nor the authority to mandate interdepartmental cooperation. As a result, parallel but separate agency concerns ripe for synergistic gains remain isolated, with no means of orchestrating limited ways and means towards the most effective set of ends in our strategies for combating terrorism.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA436121
Entities
People
- Bert B. Tussing
- Kent H. Butts
Organizations
- United States Army War College