Improving Interagency Integration at the Operational Level: CORDS - A Model for the Advanced Civilian Team
Abstract
This monograph addresses the Advanced Civilian Team (ACT) concept developed by the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), Department of State. Its purpose is to propose an organizational approach for the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization whereby the ACT headquarters in combat situations can contribute to stabilization and reconstruction. The fundamental problem addressed in this research effort is that the ACT headquarters in combat situations will not achieve stabilization and reconstruction when it achieves full operational capability in 2009 without an organizational approach that addresses the principal impediments to interagency integration, lack of unity of effort, and resource asymmetry. The monograph suggests that the ACT headquarters in combat situations partner with the in-theater military headquarters using a Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)-like approach. In addition to addressing the two impediments above, this approach is applicable to the operational environment today, to the environment envisioned in the National Intelligence Commission's Global Trends 2010, and, in particular, to future stability operations envisioned in the Department of Defense's Stability Operations Joint Operating Concept. The author argues that this approach will enable the ACT headquarters to accomplish the S/CRS purpose of transforming societies from conflict and civil strife to sustainable peace, democracy, and a market economy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA449977
Entities
People
- Ross M. Coffey
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College