Practical Exercise 2: Information Necessary to Evacuate US Civilians from The Democratic Republic of the Congo through the ?Strategies-to-Tasks? Framework
In March 1993, RAND Corporation created a briefing for Colonel Charles Miller, Director of Strategic Planning in the Air Staff?s Directorate of Plans. According to Thaler (1993), Strategies to Task - A Framework for Linking Means and Ends, was a response to then Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General McPeak, and his staff order to develop a modernization plan for the United States Air Force through 2015. In this text, strategies to tasks is a framework for force planning consisting of a hierarchy of objectives. This framework provides an audit trail from the fullest national objectives …show more content…
The ?Strategies-to-Tasks? Diagram in Appendix A promotes the link between national goals and security objectives through to campaign objectives and operational tasks. Thaler already discusses in his text that each step along the way is essentially an examination from the most extensive strategic national objectives down to operation activities at the engagement level.? (cite). The President, along with his advisers, develops the National Security Strategy of the United States as directed by Congress based on threats, security interests, and foreign policy goals. This information resides at the top of the hierarchical architecture developed within the Strategies-to-Tasks framework and guides, from the top-down, the additional objectives and …show more content…
There are a variety of approaches to developing intelligence requirements for such a unique challenge. Clark wrote in his text, Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach, that the intelligence collection process needs to be focused on collectively interlinked nodes comprised of ?people, places, things, and concepts? (Clark, 2010, p. 19). In addition, Fischhoff & Chauvin (2011) wrote in their text, Intelligence Analysis, using the example of ?connecting the dots? by saying this is probably the most fundamental problem in intelligence analysis by selecting and assembling disparate pieces of information to produce a general understanding of a threat (p. 86). When assembling Clark, Fischhoff & Chauvin?s methods, this model can demonstrate intelligence collection challenges that should be considered when developing NEOs for the DROC. Appendix D demonstrate another model for determining the intelligence requirements for developing NEOs for the DROC. The framework consists of four principles: appraising the threat, determining resources pertaining to the evacuation and logistics based on the threat and available resources, and coordinating the evacuation of noncombatants. Each of these basic
In March 1993, RAND Corporation created a briefing for Colonel Charles Miller, Director of Strategic Planning in the Air Staff?s Directorate of Plans. According to Thaler (1993), Strategies to Task - A Framework for Linking Means and Ends, was a response to then Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General McPeak, and his staff order to develop a modernization plan for the United States Air Force through 2015. In this text, strategies to tasks is a framework for force planning consisting of a hierarchy of objectives. This framework provides an audit trail from the fullest national objectives …show more content…
The ?Strategies-to-Tasks? Diagram in Appendix A promotes the link between national goals and security objectives through to campaign objectives and operational tasks. Thaler already discusses in his text that each step along the way is essentially an examination from the most extensive strategic national objectives down to operation activities at the engagement level.? (cite). The President, along with his advisers, develops the National Security Strategy of the United States as directed by Congress based on threats, security interests, and foreign policy goals. This information resides at the top of the hierarchical architecture developed within the Strategies-to-Tasks framework and guides, from the top-down, the additional objectives and …show more content…
There are a variety of approaches to developing intelligence requirements for such a unique challenge. Clark wrote in his text, Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach, that the intelligence collection process needs to be focused on collectively interlinked nodes comprised of ?people, places, things, and concepts? (Clark, 2010, p. 19). In addition, Fischhoff & Chauvin (2011) wrote in their text, Intelligence Analysis, using the example of ?connecting the dots? by saying this is probably the most fundamental problem in intelligence analysis by selecting and assembling disparate pieces of information to produce a general understanding of a threat (p. 86). When assembling Clark, Fischhoff & Chauvin?s methods, this model can demonstrate intelligence collection challenges that should be considered when developing NEOs for the DROC. Appendix D demonstrate another model for determining the intelligence requirements for developing NEOs for the DROC. The framework consists of four principles: appraising the threat, determining resources pertaining to the evacuation and logistics based on the threat and available resources, and coordinating the evacuation of noncombatants. Each of these basic