Bibliography Category: Interagency History, Structures, and Authorities

United States Joint Forces Command. Joint Interagency Coordination Group (JIACG) Fact Sheet. Norfolk, VA: Joint Forces Command, 2005. http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/jiacgfactsheet.pdf (accessed 31 October 2011). This fact sheet provides an overview of the purpose and mission of the Joint Interagency Coordination Group (JIACG), a full-time, multifunctional advisory element of the combatant commander’s staff that facilitates information sharing […]

United States Joint Forces Command. Commander’s Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group. Suffolk, VA: Joint Warfighting Center, 2007. http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/doctrine/jwfc/jiacg_hanbook.pdf (accessed 21 July 2011). This handbook contaings “best practices,” and provides perspective and a common, practical baseline for continuing the evolution of the JIACG. This handbook was developed for the combatant commanders, subordinate joint force […]

United States Agency for International Development. 2010. Tactical Conflict Assessment and Planning Framework. Complex Operations Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 11-02 (November): 7-20. http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/11-02/11-02.pdf (accessed 5 October 2011). This article examines the tactical conflict assessment and planning framework (TCAPF), which was created by the Office of Military Affairs – U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase […]

Ulin, Robert. IAE 10-01, About Interagency Cooperation. Fort Leavenworth, KS: CGSC Foundation Press, 2010. http://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IAE-10-01.pdf (accessed 21 July 2011). This article discusses the importance of interagency cooperation in responding to disasters, including the gulf oil spill and Hurricane Katrina, and other situations requiring government action.

Trebilcock, Craig R. 2000. The Myth of Posse Comitatus. Journal of Homeland Security (October). http://concen.org/forum/thread-27749.html (accessed 26 November 2012). This article examines the Posse Comitatus Act and how it impacts modern homeland defense.

Thomas, Gail Fann, Susan Page Hocevar, and Erik Jansen. A Diagnostic Approach to Building Collaborative Capacity in an Interagency Context. Acquisition Research Sponsored Report Series, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2006. http://www.acquisitionresearch.org/_files/FY2006/NPS-PM-06-026.pdf (accessed 9 September 2011). This research focuses on imperatives of successful collaboration and aims to assist organizations in diagnosing their collaborative capacity.

Thomas, Gail Fann. Field Validation of Collaborative Capacity Audit. Acquisition Research Sponsored Report Series, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2007. http://www.acquisitionresearch.net/_files/FY2007/NPS-AM-07-123.pdf (accessed 9 September 2011). This audit reviews a phase of a study that further develops and refines a collaboration capacity survey designed by the authors in 2003. The result was a refined set of […]

Tenne, Timothy T. 2007. Why the Military Can’t Do It All. Armed Forces Journal Vol. 144, no. 9 (April): 42-43. http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/04/2575499 (accessed 20 October 2011). This article examines the imbalance of civilian and military power.

Sylvia, Brett G. Empowering Interagency Capabilities: A Regional Approach. Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2006. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll3/id/771 (accessed 12 August 2011). This research demonstrates the current foreign policy architecture does not possess the capacity required to meet this challenge. Likewise, the current reforms both within the military and within the interagency are […]

Swain, Rick. IAE 11-01, Converging on Whole-of-Government Design. Fort Leavenworth, KS: CGSC Foundation Press, 2011. http://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IAE-11-01-April2011.pdf (accessed 21 July 2011). This paper argues that USAID and military problem-solving approaches are converging, and broadly understood techniques of design offer the best synthesis for achieving unity of effort in whole-of-government operations.