Building an interagency cadre of national security professionals : proposals, recent experience, and issues for Congress

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Building an interagency cadre of national security professionals : proposals, recent experience, and issues for Congress

Title remainder

proposals, recent experience, and issues for Congress

Statement of responsibility

Catherine Dale

Creator

• Dale, Catherine

Contributor

• Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

Subject

• Department of defense
• Intelligence service
• Intelligence service -- United States
• Interagency coordination
• Interagency coordination
• Interagency coordination -- United States
• Leadership
• Missions
• National security
• National security
• National security -- United States
• Personnel development
• Personnel management and labor relations
• Political science
• Specialists
• United States
• Congress

Language

eng

Summary

There is a growing consensus among many national security practitioners and scholars, across the political spectrum, broadly in favor of reforming the interagency system to encourage a more effective application of all elements of national power. The reform debates have included proposals to establish and foster an interagency cadre of national security specialists from all relevant departments and agencies. According to proponents, cadre members, through a long-term career development program that might include education, training, and exchange tours in other agencies, would gain a better understanding of the mandates, capabilities, and cultures of other agencies. They would become better prepared to plan national security missions together in Washington, D.C., and to execute them in the field, and eventually, better able to oversee their own agencies efforts from leadership positions. As a rule, such proposals have not been aimed solely at creating individual specialists. Rather, just as the Goldwater-Nichols reforms in the Department of Defense (DOD) sought to foster greater "jointness" among the Services, "interagency cadre" proposals have also aimed to adjust the organizational cultures of all agencies with national security responsibilities, in order to make interagency collaboration and integration second nature

Member of

• CRS report for Congress, RL34565

Cataloging source

DTICE

Government publication

federal national government publication

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

CRS report for Congress

Series volume

RL34565

Target audience

adult