Strategic Bridge Towards Community Building: The Military's Role

Abstract

Globalization offers both unique opportunities as well as challenges to the strategist. In understanding the environment, the strategist must recognize the increasing influence of private commercial enterprises, often represented by multinational corporations, in partnership with the rising local and global civil society, represented by nongovernmental organizations as well as individual citizens. Such collaborative engagement is necessary for leveraging the positive aspects of globalization as "soft power" in a direction that supports U.S. national security interests. Often, by virtue of interests and resources, the U.S. military serves as the strategic bridge, or initiator, towards the megacommunity formation. This paper briefly examines the contemporary global environment (which includes our domestic environment) and suggests a collaborative engagement model, the megacommunity. It describes the participating entities and proposes the circumstances for building such a community while highlighting the challenges and opportunities in megacommunity collaboration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2008
Accession Number
ADA482095

Entities

People

  • Lorelei E. Coplen

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Globalization
  • Governments
  • Local Governments
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Students
  • Teamwork
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • War Colleges

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