High Value/Low Visibility: Civil Agency Support for Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

摘要

In many military operations, DoD relies on civil agencies of the Federal Government for assistance. In Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the Departments of Commerce and Transportation, the General Services Administration, and the U.S. Postal Service provided DoD critical and substantial support. Also supporting DoD operations were the Departments of Agriculture and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. These agencies were able to provide the support DoD needed in a timely manner largely because they have well-developed crisis response capabilities, including existing internal policies, plans, and procedures for responding to a crisis and established mechanisms for coordination between the agency and DoD. These capabilities created the foundation for rapid and timely transition to crisis operations in Desert Shield. Desert Shield also demonstrated that creating and maintaining a staff experienced in crisis response was an important factor in permitting the agencies to make the transition from peacetime operations to crisis response and in sustaining the heightened o demanded by the operations. .... Civil agencies, National security emergency preparedness, Defense production act, Desert Shield/Desert Storm lessons learned, Federal emergency management agency, Graduated mobilization response, Policy coordinating committee, Department of defense.