Improving the Military's Domestic Crisis Response: Leveraging the Reserves (CSL Issue Paper, Volume 07-06, August 2006)
Abstract
On 11 and 12 July 2006, the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership convened a symposium to examine the evolving, and potential role of the military's reserve components in responding to catastrophic incidents in the United States. The fifth of an annual series dedicated to issues surrounding the service reserves and the National Guard, this forum drew heavily from the lessons learned throughout the country's recent history of defense support to civil authorities (DSCA), and particularly from the lessons of Hurricane Katrina. The forum brought together over sixty participants from the service reserve components, the National Guard, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and its component commands, the Department of the Army, and others. Among the participants were 10 General Officers and Senior Executive Service members, who joined in receiving the event's recommendations and observations on a "Blue Ribbon Panel" headed by the Honorable Thomas F. Hall, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (OSD-RA), and Mr. Frank Jones, Principal Director for Strategic Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense (OSD-HD). The nexus of the symposium was straightforward: to address the military's role of how to prepare for the next domestic crisis, irrespective of its specific nature; how to effectively and efficiently employ the military's reserve component in the Nation's response; and how to better identify the appropriate sourcing, employment, and leveraging of a finite set of resources in the response effort. The principle objective of the symposium was to look beyond the existing roles of the reserve components to potential roles and capabilities, and examine how to better leverage those components in responding to "Incidents of National Significance" (INS).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA515635
Entities
People
- Bert B. Tussing
- James F. Roth
- Richard W. Dillon
Organizations
- United States Army War College