Foreign Service Meeting the Deployment Challenge

Abstract

The current administration has designated the Department of State as the lead agency in coordinating U.S. government efforts in stabilization and reconstruction. In order to complete this mission, the Department will need to deploy personnel into areas of severe hardship and potential military conflict, as we do today in our embassies and provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. In order to fill the jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department has put in place some compensation, promotion and assignment incentives. Still, it remains a struggle, both in hardship and non-hardship posts, to fill the positions with qualified personnel. This paper addresses the question of how the Foreign Service can prepare itself to be better ready to deploy, in appropriate numbers, to post-conflict and crisis zones around the world. This paper reviews the panoply of the Department's current staffing and funding initiatives and recommends that the Department leadership put together a coherent plan to present Congress in order to obtain the additional resources needed to turn current initiatives into a sustainable program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 2007
Accession Number
ADA468957

Entities

People

  • Marjorie Phillips

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • First Responders
  • Foreign Service Officers
  • Governments
  • Law
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies