Enabling Partner Capacity Building
Abstract
The current National Security Strategy emphasizes building the capacity of our allies and partner countries to share the burden of global leadership. The Army is transitioning from a force focused on counterinsurgency operations to one that operates across the full range of military operations to include regional engagement to build security capacities. In this transition, the Army is focused on providing combat commanders with land forces to support their theater support cooperation activities and contingency response. The Army s solution is to use regionally aligned general purpose forces to conduct these missions. Though Regionally Aligned Force concept provides a robust capability to combatant commanders, the cost in dollars and time to specialize general purpose forces in language, regional, and cultural expertise required to fully implement the strategy is high. To mitigate these expenses and better synchronize theater support cooperation activities, the Army should develop a capacity building force at the Army Service Component Command with the regional expertise to enable the regional aligned force concept s execution.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA589228
Entities
People
- Collin Fortier
Organizations
- United States Army War College