Regional Initiatives: Eliminating the Causes of Terrorism
Abstract
The US military is the only element of national power that has been funded to fulfill its responsibilities to defend the homeland from terrorists while buying time from being attacked by transnational terrorists. However, eliminating or reducing the underling causes of terrorism requires a regional approach and a full interagency effort to support counter-terrorism efforts in key nations and regions. These efforts should be coordinated and synchronized to improve the assisted nations' ability to provide good governance, including humanitarian rights, health care, information, governance, law enforcement, finance, and economic capabilities. Successive US administrations should direct relevant US agencies and departments. These efforts should focus on long-term solutions and not on narrow-sighted and short-term military solutions. This strategic research paper will focus on regional initiatives to identify the region's nations' political, economic, security, and informational environments. Selected nations should then be empowered and resourced, with support drawn from the full spectrum of US national power to provide a sustained long-term (25-50 years) program to eliminate transnational terrorist networks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 17, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA480162
Entities
People
- David W. Major
Organizations
- United States Army War College