Combatant Command Interagency Directorate Symposium (CSL Issue Paper, Volume 8-10, October 2010)

摘要

As a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense authorized the creation of interagency coordination cells within the Combatant Commands.2 Known as the Joint Interagency Working Group-Counterterrorism (JIACG-CT) it was visualized as being the vehicle by which the Combatant Commander (CCDR) would integrate the interagency into the Theater planning process. As with the evolution of living organisms, after nine years each JIACG's development was directly impacted by its environment. Among the Combatant Commands not even the name remains the same. The Army War College took advantage of the opportunity to see the many faces of interagency coordination from August 31 - September 1, 2010 when the Center for Strategic Leadership, at the request of the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) EC-J9, hosted the Combatant Command Interagency Directorate Symposium (IDS). Two years in the offing, the Combatant Command IDS brought together for the first time the CCDR's Senior Executive Service (SES)/Senior Foreign Service (SFS)-level civilian interagency coordinators in one room for a free flowing exchange of ideas and lessons learned. The Directors from the six Geographical Combatant Commands (GCCs), U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), U.S Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) were at the table. In addition, representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, and the Department of Homeland Security were in attendance.