Enhancing International Education Support To Security Cooperation

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Enhancing International Education Support To
Security Cooperation

• Principal Investigator C.J. LaCivita
• Co-Principal Investigator John Christiansen
• Defense Resources Management Institute
• Center for Civil-Military Relations
• School of International Graduate Studies
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Monterey, California

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Purpose

• Review and analyze DoD international education
  programs
• Policy
• Execution
• Administrative processes
• Provide recommendations for
• Ensuring programs operate in a mutually
  supportive, efficient and effective manner
• Developing accomplishment reporting and
  performance measurements
• Ensuring that Security Assistance Officers are
  given necessary policy guidance

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Overview of Educational Institutions

• 80 identified, 50 responded to survey
• 57 asked to respond
• 48 responded, along with 2 not requested
• 21,000 students in FY2001
• Types of Institutions
• Regional Centers 5
• Functional Centers 21
• Professional Military Education 52
• Non-PME, Graduate-Level 2

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Authority for Institution

• Law 12
• DoD Directive 9
• Service Directive 8
• Service Instruction/Regulation/Order 7
• CJCS Instruction 2
• Unified Command Instruction 2
• Executive Order 1
• SHAPE Directive 1
• Other 15

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Administrative Chain

• OSD 7
• Military Departments 52
• Regional Commands 9
• Joint Staff 12

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Policy Chain

• Administrative guidance from administrative owner
• Program guidance from policy sponsor
• OSD 19
• Joint Staff 9
• Military Departments 50
• Regional Commands 2
• Other Congress, Department of State, various
  offices in OSD

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Policy Guidance

• Source of Guidance No. of Schools
• Military Service 35
• OSD 30
• Regional Command 23
• State Department 21
• JCS 14

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Funding Sources

• Administrative owners
• Foreign Military Sales
• International Military Education Training
• Other
• Foundations
• Non-government entities

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Core Competencies

• Civil-Military Relations
• Defense Planning/Resource Management
• National/Regional Security Studies
• Professional Military Education
• Military Intelligence Analysis/Collection

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Accreditation

• 24 (48) accredited
• 3 seeking accreditation

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Curriculum Approving/Reviewing Authority

• Approving Authority
• Head of the school or department
• Committee of faculty
• Reviewing Authority
• Sponsoring organizations
• Head of the school
• Faculty committee

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Student Profile

• Type of International Student No. of
  Schools
• Government Civilians 35
• Civilians from International Organizations 14
  
• Non-Government Civilians 21
• Military Officers Senior 37
• Military Officers Mid Grade 42
• Military Officers Junior 33
• Other (cadets, NCOs) 15

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Country Selection Process

• Establishing authority
• Laws and directives
• Relevant higher authority
• State Department
• Regional Commands
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency
• Security Assistance Officer

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Student Selection Process

• Mission of the school
• Country recommendation
• Relevant higher authority
• State Department
• Regional Commands
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency
• Security Assistance Officer

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Alumni Programs

• No. of Programs No. of Schools
• 0 14
• 1 13
• 2 6
• 3 6
• 4 4
• 5 3
• 6 2
• 7 1

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Alumni Programs

• Type of Program No. of Schools
• Newsletter 22
• Website 16
• Directory Alumni 14
• Email List Server 12
• Country Alumni Clubs 7
• Other 16

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Major Findings

• Developing and Issuing Policy
• No systematic formulation of DoD goals and
  objectives for international education.
• No well-defined mechanisms for communicating
  policy
• No systematic measurement of performance
• Sharing of Information Among Institutions
• Tends to be compartmentalized within the
  organization
• Sharing both vertically and horizontally can be
  improved.
• Alumni Programs
• Mostly ad hoc--when done at all.

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Recommendations

• USD(P) should take the lead in developing an
  OSD-wide systematic approach to determining
  strategic goals and objectives for international
  education and in developing a strategic plan to
  achieve those objectives.
• USD(P) should ensure that selection of countries
  to be asked to participate in DoDs international
  education programs be based on those countries
  that are of highest importance to national
  security.

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Recommendations(Continued)

• Strategic goals and objectives should be
  distributed throughout the international
  education community so that lower level goals and
  objectives support the strategic goals and
  objectives.
• A system should be established to share
  information among DoD educational institutions.
• USD(P) should develop a strategy for maintaining
  relationships with alumni.