Featured Article: Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa

● ehill ● May 16, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa by Robert Bennett United States Army Africa (USARAF) executes over 400 activities annually valued at $2 million. These activities augment activities sponsored by other U.S. government, private charitable foundations, churches, and regional African organizations. The stated goals for these activities are complementary, but… Read More

USAID, State, DoD to release Stabilization Assistance Review

● ehill ● April 18, 2018 ● IA News ● No Comments

An interagency review of U.S. government stabilization efforts is expected as early as this month. The Stabilization Assistance Review (SAR) examines how the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Department of Defense (DoD) coordinate their diplomacy, aid, and military operations, primarily in Syria and Iraq. A State… Read More

Featured Article: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along…

● ehill ● April 18, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along: Overcoming Personal Barriers to Inter-Organizational Effectiveness and Finding Your Personal Coupler for Success by William J. Davis, Jr. DoD placed Pakistan and India in separate geographic combatant commands in order to foster U.S. military relationships with each country, given their history… Read More

DoD, agencies collaborate on space technology

● ehill ● April 11, 2018 ● IA News ● No Comments

The Pentagon, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Reconnaissance Office have come together to contribute to a review of the defense industrial base. The four agencies make up a “space industrial base working group” that is examining how agencies could share space technology, collaborate on space-related acquisitions, and… Read More

Featured Article: New Foreign Policy Capability

● ehill ● April 11, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: New Foreign Policy Capability by Robert D. Payne III On September 5, 2017 Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, in an attempt to achieve positive effects in the strategic narrative of the war there, dropped thousands of leaflets hoping to inspire support for Coalition efforts among the majority ambivalent population.… Read More

Featured Article: Partnering to End Corruption…

● ehill ● March 21, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Partnering to End Corruption through Security Cooperation and Defense Institution Building by Adam J. Bushey Corruption damages a mission’s operational effectiveness and credibility and is “a key inhibitor of stability… is often a key cause of conflict… and erodes the legitimacy and efficacy of an international mission.” The… Read More

Featured Article: Counterterrorism Response Force Requirement

● ehill ● March 14, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: U.S. Northern Command Counterterrorism Response Force Requirement by Matthew D. Bartels Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduced the theory of a “Black Swan” event in 2007. It is described “as an event in human history that was unprecedented and unexpected at the point in time it occurred; however, after evaluating… Read More

State of Defense Livestream

● ehill ● March 7, 2018 ● IA Events ● No Comments

March 15, 2018 Defense One will host a livestream discussion of its popular, annual report “State of Defense” on March 15, from 8:00 – 10:45 am EDT. During the livestream, Defense One editors will sit with top-ranking officials, stakeholders and thought leaders across Washington for conversations about today’s national security… Read More

Featured Article: A Strategy to Harmonize Joint and Interagency Planning

● ehill ● March 7, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Filling the Gap: A Strategy to Harmonize Joint and Interagency Planning by J. “Spyke” Szeredy How can providing a new planning strategy exert influence, align objectives, and harmonize activities between the Joint and Interagency environments? A simplified strategy for the integration of planning across the joint (Department of… Read More

Featured Article: USAID: What You Don’t Know

● ehill ● February 28, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: USAID: What You Don’t Know by Vashaun Wrice The interagency (IA) relationship between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies is an important one. As such, the following article will examine a way of bridging the gap of IA coordination between such agencies,… Read More

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