The Center for Strategic Leadership hosted the fourth in a series of 12 “Limited Objective Experiment” (LOE) workshops on 23 and 24 September 2008. This workshop series explores the validation and refinement of the Department of Defense’s Homeland Defense and…
Congressional mandate and Executive Branch direction have combined to task the military as never before in support of civil authorities in disaster response. Within that military, no organization will have a greater set of responsibilities in coordinating these commitments than…
The role of the state’s National Guard in domestic crisis response continues to evolve, especially in its relation to the responsibilities of other agencies (both governmental and non-governmental). An assessment of that evolution reveals some important issues and potential solutions.
Under of its new charter, the National Guard Bureau has been empowered with greater access, greater representation, and greater responsibility. Concurrently, it has inherited a primary role in coordinating the strengths of the Guard with other essential stakeholders in the…
Response to domestic crises is a burden most often borne by active duty armed forces organizations and reserve forces, such as the state’s Army and Air National Guards, but there are many other auxiliary forces that can contribute to crisis…
Over the past 45 years changes in the strategic environment require land forces that are capable of more than just attacking and defending. Within the 21st century environment, shaping the civil situation to accomplish the strategic endstate is just as…
A definition of Strategy is that it is about the choices a nation makes given a particular strategic environment, and the trends shaping our future strategic environment point toward an era that some have labeled “persistent conflict”. Given this premise…
On April 2, 2008, NATO offered Albania membership in the Alliance. For a country once described by Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as no more than a “geographical expression,” this was a reward for a long tortuous journey through history.…
For decades, events in Central and South America have rarely broken through the consciousness of any administration, let alone the American people. Were it not for illegal immigration or drug busts, there would be almost no news from Latin America…