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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates describes his experiences as Secretary of State while serving for two Presidential Administrations from 2006-2011. This Paper will analyze former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, as a strategic leader in two specific areas: his ability to build consensus and unite the Military and Congress with a unifying strategic approach to the war in Iraq during his first year (2006-2007) under President George H. Bush and his approach to rebuilding the 2010…

How can peace-loving, human rights advocating, harmonic people not ebrace the notion of “Stability Operations?” It is difficult to argue against something as altruistic as “Stability Operations.” In 2005, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) published a report on institutionalizing stability operations within the DoD. It admitted “there had been noticeable progress within the Department toward explicit embrace of stability operations as a core activity.” The bandwagoning to classify…

US Intel Community 1. An element of the National Security Act of 1947 stated “…No United States intelligence information may be provided to the United Nations or any organization affiliated with the United Nations...” Briefly defend this position from an ethical perspective. Whenever the National Security Act of 1947 were precisely constituted, it would have been addressed the National Subversives Security Act since it constituted the administrative model for revolutionists to the United…

successes of the National Guard prompted Congress to revisit the utilization of the Reserve Component (RC). Playing both an operational and strategic functions, the RC provides capabilities across the full range of military operations to meet U.S. defense…

As defined by the Rand Corporation (3), agroterrorism is “the deliberate introduction of a disease agent, either against livestock or into the food chain, for the purposes of undermining socioeconomic stability and/or generating fear. Depending on the disease agent and pathogenic vector chosen, agroterrorism is a tactic that can be used either to cause mass socioeconomic disruption or as a form of direct human aggression”. The Department of Homeland Security defines agricultural bioterrorism as…

consists of programs such as: Medicare and Medicaid, Defense, Social Security, Interest on National Debt, and Safety Net Programs. The category which must be adjusted within this budget is the Defense program. The spending for this program should be reduced by approximately 8% and that 8% should be transferred into Education Programs. According to a chart of the total expenditures of the Federal Budget in 2012, around $716 billion dollars was spent on Defense, while Education trails far behind…

reference list) to fully provide the requested information regarding the following two topics (both must be addressed): Topic 1: Fully describe the overall concepts of homeland security and homeland defense. Construct a response that provides the following related to both homeland security and homeland defense: • Primary missions, tasks, duties, responsibilities, operations, etc. for each broad initiative. • Resources needed/utilized to address them • Highlight those responsibilities and…

government will be spending more on net interest payments than on national defense for the first time in modern history.” The current trends indicate a more fiscally constrained future, forcing the balance be achieved through a cost-conscious culture. It will be a necessity to accomplish more with less and do it more efficiently than before. The threat is not going to proportionally decrease with the United States defense budget. The Global Trends 2030 publication predicts that no country,…

force. Maintaining a strong military and close relations with allies abroad ensures our own security as well as international peace and stability. Young Americans have the largest stake in ensuring that the United States remains strong for its own defense and to maintain peace and stability abroad. It is Young Americans that do the bulk of the fighting in armed conflicts. If the U.S. and its allies fail to maintain international peace and stability, it is Young Americans that will have to…

is submitted as an alternate proposal to the Cost of Capital Budgeting Analysis assignment, as the US Department of Defense does not use capital budgeting processes or the weighted average cost of capital numeric to qualify how to spend and invest their money, nor does it calculate official ROIs. In this paper, I will discuss the chronological process by which the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government create and implement the yearly budget, which is over $400 billion, specifically as it…