Interagency Support for the Tactical Commander
Abstract
Brigade combat team commanders (BCT) will be habitually told in future conflicts to conduct stability operations. One of the purposes of conducting stability operations is to promote sustainable and responsive provincial institutions. Those institutions include government, economic, military, police, education and, agriculture components. Depending on the culture and level of development of the country the United States has committed to help, there could even be more institutions that require the attention of the BCT commander. Yet the BCT commander, responsible for executing this mission, is not normally given anyone who is trained to advise the commander on starting the institutions mentioned above and then assisting the indigenous population in sustaining those institutions. Civil Affairs Teams are trained to assist a small population in some of the tasks required of the institutions but not to the size and scope needed for a province. In my Strategy Research Project, I will demonstrate a need for and the composition of an interagency team that is responsible to both the BCT commander and their respective agencies for advising the commander and overseeing the creation and training to sustain provincial institutions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 30, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA468449
Entities
People
- Leo D. Blunck
Organizations
- United States Army War College