Designing Excellence into America's Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) Efforts
Abstract
The fall of the Soviet Union left America as the primary leader of an increasingly interdependent world of nations in a dynamic international security environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This paper proposes a structural solution to improving the Nation's ability to respond, and stay engaged for as long as it takes, in simultaneous Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations (SSTRO) worldwide. The proposed solution employs the right resources against five key SSTR lines of operations: diplomacy, information, economics, security, and development. It focuses U.S. armed forces on full-spectrum military proficiency, while providing a robust, rapidly employable interagency capability to address non-combat SSTR tasks. A new Department of International Development (DID) greatly improves national and regional integration and synchronization of U.S. Government (USG), International Organization, Non-governmental Organization, and Private Volunteer Organization efforts in SSTR areas. Lastly, this proposal provides interagency depth, breadth, and responsiveness for SSTRO with full-time and reserve civil support organizations possessing comprehensive nation-assistance skills, forward-positioned in each Geographic Component Command (GCC) region. Until a U.S. SSTR structural improvement is made, the U.S. Armed Forces, as it has done for many years, will continue to represent Americans proudly overseas executing whatever assignments the Nation deems necessary.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 30, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA469681
Entities
People
- Jeffrey M. Douville
Organizations
- United States Army War College