Interagency Coordination: Past Lessons, Current Issues, and Future Necessities
Abstract
Planners developing military strategy to accomplish national security strategy must integrate with other contributors. Processes and mechanisms to achieve interagency coordination are formal for senior leader integration, but less formal, or non-existent, for routine coordination across a variety of topics below the assistant secretary level. The State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, 1944-1949, achieved and sustained critical components of coordination (i.e., senior leader involvement, thorough integration, and sustained interaction) and coexisted during the development of the National Military Establishment. Joint doctrine recognizes the need for integration with other U.S. Government organizations and leaders have adjusted national level processes to ensure integration of the elements of power. To achieve coordination, senior leaders must recognize and enforce sustained interaction and encourage thorough subordinate integration at or below the assistant secretary level.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA448331
Entities
People
- Robert F. Kolterman
Organizations
- United States Army War College