Security Cooperation and Professional Military Education: Developing Better Theater Campaign Planners
Abstract
The Guidance for Employment of the Force directs Geographic Combatant Commanders to develop Theater Campaign Plans that integrate steady-state military actions, composed primarily of security cooperation activities, and link them to strategic end states. This requires organizations that plan at the theater level to have staff officers who are as well versed in the theory, doctrine, planning, and practice of security cooperation as they are in warfighting. Professional military education institutions do not provide adequate instruction regarding security cooperation to produce theater campaign planners with the knowledge needed to create Theater Campaign Plans that efficiently and effectively employ security cooperation means to achieve strategic ends. The Department of Defense can correct this deficiency through a combination of direction from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, adjustments in doctrine, and a collaborative approach to security cooperation curriculum development and instruction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 22, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA561645
Entities
People
- Terry L. Baggett
Organizations
- National Defense University