Bibliography Category: Interagency History, Structures, and Authorities

Liddick, Jay and David A. Anderson. IAP 4 (April), State Department/Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization: Inception, Challenges, and Impact on U.S. Reconstruction and Stabilization Capacity. Fort Leavenworth, KS: CGSC Foundation Press, 2011. http://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IAP-No04-April2011.pdf (accessed 22 July 2011). This paper looks at the creation of the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator of Reconstruction and Stabilization […]

Levo, C. Dewayne. Adaptions to the ‘Whole-of-Government’ Approach by the United States Department of State. Master’s Thesis, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2010. http://cdm16040.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/2692/rec/4 (accessed 15 June 2011). This thesis examines adaptations made by the Department of State, on adherence to directives requiring coordination with other U.S. government departments and agencies, to […]

Lehrke, Jesse Paul. Losing Iran: The Accidental Abandonment of an Ally through Interagency Failure. Washington, DC: Project on National Security Reform, (n.d.). http://www.pnsr.org/?p=432 (accessed 18 October 2011). This document details the failures in U.S. policy and strategy that lead to losing Iran as an ally.

Larrabee, Christopher L. Inefficient by Design: A Model for Leader Assessment of Organizational Efficiency. Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2008. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll3/id/2334 (accessed 12 August 2011). This monograph seeks to provide the organizational leader with an alternative method of considering the efficiency of his organization. The model uses historical examples and the […]

Lambright, W. Henry. 1997. The Rise and Fall of Interagency Cooperation: The U.S. Global Change Research Program. Public Administration Review Vol. 57: 36-44. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5000414307 (accessed 28 October 2011). This article examines interagency cooperation, interagency committees, what influences institutional innovation in public policy and administration, what are the consequences of administrative entrepreneurship, and other related issues.

Lamb, Christopher J. and Evan Munsing. Secret Weapon: High-value Target Teams as an Organizational Innovation. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2011. http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/strategic-perspectives/Strategic-Perspectives-4.pdf (accessed 20 December 2011). This study argues that interagency teams were a major catalyst in turning around the Iraq War, and that they will disappear from America’s arsenal unless the knowledge base […]

Lamb, Christopher and Edward Marks. IAE 11-02, Expanding Chief of Mission Authority to Produce Unity of Effort. Fort Leavenworth, KS: CGSC Foundation Press, 2011. http://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IAE-11-02-MAY2011.pdf (accessed 21 July 2011). This essay argues that the interagency integration problem can be rectified by expanding the President’s power to delegate a modified “chief of mission” authority similar to […]

Laganelli, John. Developing Interagency Planning Capabilities: A Bridge Too Far?. Strategy Research Project, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2009. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA497684&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (accessed 6 October 2011). This paper looks at the level of progress in U.S. Government interagency coordination from 2001 to present. The paper also identifies reasons change has not occurred, explores several […]

Lafleur, Thomas M. Interagency Efficacy at the Operational Level. Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2005. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA435932&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (accessed 13 March 2012). This monograph examines interagency coordination in complex environments and Presidential Decision Directive 56, The Clinton Administration’s Policy on Managing Complex Contingency Operations. The author asserts that supra-departmental control of the interagency process […]

Kuznar, Lawrence A. From the Mind to the Feet: Assessing the Perception-to-Intent-to-Action Dynamic. Maxwell AFB, AL. Air University Press, 2011. http://aupress.au.af.mil/digital/pdf/book/From_The_Mind_to_the_Feet_Kuznar.pdf (accessed 8 August 2011). This document is an interagency, multidisciplinary collection of 12 essays addressing operational and academic perspectives on the elusive concept of an adversary’s “intent,” and is intended to serve military and […]