Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Regional Stability and Security through Disaster Preparedness: 2004 Gulf Region Disaster Response Preparedness Conference and Medical Workshop. Volume 01-05

摘要

Uninterrupted access to and use of critical infrastructure in the Arabian Gulf region are key to the successful prosecution of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). To maintain access and use the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and its Gulf Region partners must deny outside organizations the ability to influence these requirements through terrorism. Essential to this will be information sharing and shared capabilities. Regional cooperation is important because terrorist threats vary, both regionally and nationally. To facilitate this end state, theater security cooperation initiatives that promote regional collaboration are underway to improve national disaster preparedness capabilities and effective disaster preparedness training with partner nations. Under the aegis of the Defense Environmental Intelligence Cooperation Program, the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (DUSD-I AND E) teamed with the USCENTCOM to address these issues. The vehicle was the 'Gulf Region Disaster Response Preparedness Conference and Medical Workshop,' conducted September 26-29, 2004 in Manama, Bahrain. This multilateral event focused on the process of developing standardized procedures for regional response to intentional or accidental man-made incidents. Hosted by the Bahrain Defence Forces, participants included Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, the United States, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) secretariat general, and observers from Egypt and Jordan. The U.S. Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership (USAWC/CSL) and the National Defense University (NDU) Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) provided operational, logistical, cultural, and administrative support for the workshop. This summary is divided into the following sections: promoting regional stability and security objectives, USCENTCOM regional disaster preparedness strategy, mitigating the threat, and the interagency challenge.