Standing Joint Task Forces: Resourcing Relics
Abstract
The Standing Joint Task Force (SJTF) serves as an enduring organization of the national security environment. Of the numerous SJTFs operational around the world, this monograph examines two whose missions support homeland defense. The United States Northern Command's subordinate Army component command, U.S. Army North, supervises these organizations: JTF-North and JTF Civil Support. The primary reasons for writing about these two organizations is to understand their unique mission, evaluate the cost of their sustainment, and present options that will improve their effectiveness and ensure that they meet the challenges of the 21st century. The standard response to a national security challenge in the 1980s and 1990s was to create a Standing Joint Task Force. This monograph challenges America to reexamine the roles, functions, and missions of the current Standing Joint Task Forces and develop alternative solutions that decrease costs, increase effectiveness, and place responsibility for national security upon the whole of government, and not just the Department of Defense.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA523127
Entities
People
- John M. Bushman
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College