Roundtable on Proposed Civilian Reserve Corps
Thought this report would be of interest to forum readers. Note that the CRC would "consist of experts from state and local government, as well as the NGO community and the private sector, who have skills lacking in sufficient numbers in the USG - from police trainers to city managers." CRC members would receive several weeks of orientation and training....which one roundtable member disagreed with, saying CRCers would require extensive training...
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In Roundtable on Proposed Civilian Reserve Corps, CSIS Senior Associate Dane Smith highlights the challenges for the U.S. government in building a civilian reserve corps to manage future stabilization and reconstruction operations. The paper summarizes the discussion from an experts’ roundtable held at CSIS on July 18, 2007.
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/...dtable_crc.pdf
Extending tours in the military has been an issue...
... but what about in other parts of the government that are deployable? I'm thinking specifically about intel agencies. Perhaps this is beyond the realm of discussion here, but we haven't seen anything in the press about forced deployments or extensions of our analytical intelligence staffs overseas.
Have they found a rotation model that could be applied to a civilian response corps?
For civilian involvement on overseas missions what is the necessary model?
Is longer term (1 year plus) engagement necessary to build the relationships, know the culture, have an impact, or are shorter rotations in country possible?
Can the development/coin/stability issues be worked from Washington (or wherever else) as well as on the ground a la intel analysis?
You're supposed to already have one...
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Originally Posted by
selil
If I sign up do I get a gun!!!!! <- Marines everywhere will get the reference
For fun...:D