When to Deploy the Field Advance Civilian Team
Abstract
The USG will continue to support operations to achieve its national security objectives. With the potential for failing states and instability throughout the world, the Obama Administration will have to decide the appropriate level of USG commitment to support operations in other nations to foster stability and enhance prosperity. The current S/CRS framework for stabilization provides for deploying FACTs but does not give a criterion to aid in the decision. Criteria for employment of FACTs, the most extensive level of U.S. commitment of interagency personnel to an operation, are useful to enable this decision. The potential criterion for employing a FACT includes five elements. These elements are: when there is a lack of a national host country government; when there is a need for multiple expertise in stability operations conducted over extensive areas; when the best training of the local institutions is through modeling behavior by direct coaching; when conditions in the regional or local areas overwhelm the existing government institutions; and finally, in concert with major military operations. The suggested criterion provides a point of departure for policy makers in the new administration concerning deployment of the emergent interagency capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 18, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA498032
Entities
People
- Jeffrey R. Eckstein
Organizations
- United States Army War College