Government Agencies & Officials [Archive]

Central Intelligence Agency discloses deaths of 4 officers (0 replies)
International Financial Blackmail as a force multiplier (1 replies)
UN whistleblower who exposed sexual abuse by peacekeepers is exonerated (0 replies)
Retired from the CIA at 90 (0 replies)
Complementary Governance (0 replies)
Diplomatic security after terrorists kill US Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya (48 replies)
The greedy battle for Iraq’s ‘Hearts And Minds’ (23 replies)
After Democracy? (1 replies)
Wdr 2011 (4 replies)
Wartime Contracting (1 replies)
Who are "The Strategists"? (11 replies)
Operationalizing The Jones Model through COG (136 replies)
Libraries and counterinsurgency (16 replies)
The Civilian Shoe Dropping (57 replies)
NYT: Iraq Shuns US Businesses (1 replies)
Unity of Effort...what unity of effort? (10 replies)
Economics and Irregular Warfare (109 replies)
Steve Metz has published a valuable article. (49 replies)
State dept Responds to General Zinni (5 replies)
Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom (19 replies)
In Congress I Trust (22 replies)
FID or COIN? does it matter (56 replies)
Lessons Not Learned (41 replies)
RC to the rescue ... again (4 replies)
How To Fix The Economy (86 replies)
How do we say the Afghan Surge is not just mil when civilians are not participating? (31 replies)
SOCOM and the CIA (60 replies)
A New Model for Foreign Aid? (8 replies)
Expanding and Strengthening the NSC (0 replies)
Insights on DOS / country team culture? (28 replies)
DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce (3 replies)
How Government Looks at Pundits (0 replies)
Panetta as CIA Director (73 replies)
USAID Office of Surge Administration? (0 replies)
Obstacles to a Whole of Government Approach: DoD versus State AOR's (32 replies)
Is the U.S. Diplomatic Corps Big Enough? (6 replies)
Military Review Nov Dec 08 Reconstruction: a Damaging Fantasy? (4 replies)
The Treasury Approach to State-Building (0 replies)
Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence (0 replies)
Public Diplomacy and National Security (7 replies)
Taking Interagency Stability Operations to a New Level (0 replies)
USAID Civilian-Military Cooperation Policy (9 replies)
Rethinking Smith-Mundt (0 replies)
Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat (0 replies)
Civilian Response Corps Launched (0 replies)
Integrated Security Assistance: The 1207 Program (1 replies)
4 Americans Die in Attack During Sadr City Meeting (3 replies)
Robert Kaplan - What Rumsfeld Got Right (13 replies)
AF Secretary and Chief of Staff Dismissed (110 replies)
USAID Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) 2007 Performance Report (0 replies)
Who's the right person for the job? (0 replies)
More PRTs or More personnel on PRTs (11 replies)
ISR and business as usual (41 replies)
Michele Flournoy on strategy (27 replies)
IW & Stability Ops: Approaches to Interagency Integration (0 replies)
Assessing Democracy and Governance (2 replies)
U.S. Efforts to Protect International Aviation from MANPADs (1 replies)
In-sourcing the Tools of National Power (2 replies)
Conflict-Sensitive Approach to Infrastructure Development (2 replies)
" The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD's Expanding Role" (1 replies)
Roundtable on Proposed Civilian Reserve Corps (53 replies)
Attributes/skillset for 'rugged' diplomats (20 replies)
"Prime Candidates for Iraq" (39 replies)
Dipnote: Official US DoS blog (9 replies)
The Political Officer as a Counter-Insurgent (merged thread) (15 replies)
Policies in Post-Conflict Countries (0 replies)
Guidelines set top homeland security investment priorities (0 replies)
Course Handbook: Dual Status Title 10/32 Joint Task Force (JTF) Commander Handbook (1 replies)
New Interagency COIN Manual (25 replies)
Inter-Agency Leadership (6 replies)
Iraq Weekly Briefing: Reconstruction, Economic and Political Update (0 replies)
Plenty of Music, but Not to Soothe a Savage Breast (0 replies)
Military Support to SSTRO JOC (10 replies)
Mugabe Minister Voted to U.N. Post (2 replies)
The Missing Mission: Expeditionary Police for Peacekeeping and Transnational Stabilit (0 replies)
CORDS Reunion (1 replies)
Readings on Civil-Military Relations (0 replies)
Beyond Lies in American Food Aid: The Dead Bodies (13 replies)
USAID doing COIN in Thailand in the late 70s? (13 replies)
Unions vs. Security (0 replies)
Strengthen Civilian Forces, Too (7 replies)
Rand's "Beginner's Guide to Nation Building" (0 replies)
From SF to FS, from Mars to Venus (1 replies)
What Scope of Military, and Civilians, Do We Need? (0 replies)
U.S. Touts Provincial Reconstruction Teams as a Model (19 replies)
A propaganda opportunity? (13 replies)
Finding Diplomats for Perilous Posts (36 replies)
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (3 replies)
Mass Atrocity Response Operations (42 replies)
2 Views of Success--and a huge gap between them (0 replies)
Iraq: U.S. Strategic Outreach (3 replies)
Americans Uneducated About War (3 replies)
The Power Joe Rosenthal Knew (0 replies)
Rice Orders Difficult Posts Filled First (0 replies)
Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves (0 replies)
JFQ Interview With Ambassador Carlos Pascual (0 replies)
Pace Urges Coalition, Interagency Processes Study (3 replies)
Study Urges Reserve Rebuilding Force for Cases Like Iraq (0 replies)
Future Small Wars and the USMC (4 replies)
Soft Power: a collection of writing & posts (14 replies)
The Terrorist Threat and the Counter-Terrorism Effort (0 replies)
The Price Of Success In Iraq (3 replies)
Democracy vs. Democracy? (4 replies)
Iraq Culture Smart Card (0 replies)
U.S. Military Needs a PR Counteroffensive (6 replies)
U.S. Wants Cultural Savvy Troops (5 replies)
Of Jihad Networks and the War of Ideas (0 replies)
Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy (0 replies)
Islamist COG (7 replies)
Mek / Pkk (0 replies)
GAO Report - "Public Diplomacy" in Muslim World (0 replies)
Choosing Words Carefully (5 replies)
Experts: U.S. Must Win 'War of Ideas' (1 replies)
Déjà Vu in Iraq (15 replies)
Limited War (2 replies)
With All Due Respect... (3 replies)
The Troops Have Moved On (1 replies)
Winning the “LongWar” in Iraq: What the US Can and Cannot Do (2 replies)
Are We Ready For an Interagency Combatant Command? (7 replies)
Naval Academy Mids Get Cultural PME (0 replies)
Iraqi Colonel Calls for U.S Cultural Awareness (0 replies)
Money Where it Matters: Congress Continues to Fail (0 replies)
AP and IO (0 replies)
U.S.'s Cultural Ignorance Fuels Iraq Insurgency (3 replies)
Assumetric Warfare (1 replies)
Iraq Reconstruction Teams Delayed at State Department (1 replies)
Give Rebuilding Lower Priority in Future Wars (2 replies)
Desire To 'Serve My Country' Cited By Volunteers For Duty In Iraq (0 replies)
Muslim's Blunt Criticism of Islam Draws Threats (2 replies)
Press Exaggerations Test American Will (4 replies)
America's Most Dangerous Enemy (9 replies)
Iraq Security for U.S. Teams Uncertain (0 replies)
Send In the State Department (0 replies)
Warner Hits Lack of Help on Iraq War (2 replies)
Diplomats Will Be Shifted to Hot Spots (2 replies)
Better Jointness Needed Between Military and Diplomats (0 replies)
Urgent Need to Strengthen Nuke Non-Proliferation (2 replies)
Rice's Rebuilding Plan Hits Snags (2 replies)
World War IV As Fourth-Generation Warfare (0 replies)
Unit cultural training (0 replies)
Planted PR Stories Not News to Military (0 replies)
State Dept. Considers Mandatory Iraq Tours (0 replies)
What the Troops Really Need (1 replies)
Allies, COIN, and the War on Terrorism (0 replies)
Nation-Building Elevated (97 replies)
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press (5 replies)
Good read on Iraqi Army (1 replies)
Good article in Foreign Affairs. (1 replies)
Pentagon to Raise Importance of 'Stability' Efforts in War (1 replies)
Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (0 replies)
Rapid Personnel Shifts Hinder U.S. Efforts to Rebuild Iraq (1 replies)
We Should Pay to Plan for Nation Building (0 replies)
The Mayor of Ar Rutbah (2 replies)
Nation Building in Iraq Lagging (0 replies)
USIP Paper on Sunni Insurgency (0 replies)
Is "Interagency" the right question? (4 replies)
DImE, PmESII and now MIDLIFE (15 replies)
Our Diplomats' Arabic Handicap (1 replies)
SWJ Reference Library Update (0 replies)
AQ Terrorist IO Efforts Continue (4 replies)
Good Interagency Research Link (0 replies)