The Interagency Process and America's Second Front in The Global War on Terrorism

<p>The purpose of this paper is to present solutions on how to address terrorism the most challenging threat to our national security and recommend what can be done at the operational level to enhance interagency and coalition partner collaboration required to achieve success against this threat. First I briefly discuss the nature of the terrorism threat. Second I review the interagency process at the national level and describe the interagency coordination mechanisms that exist at the operational and tactical levels. Third I demonstrate how theater engagement was and will continue to be critical to winning the GWOT. This paper also includes a case study reviewing the contextual factors and key turning points during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) Philippines America's second front in the GWOT.<br>OEF Philippines presented military leaders in Pacific Command (PACOM) with the many challenges--some similar and some different than those experienced in OEF Afghanistan. Finally I provide recommendations on how to develop an integrated strategy to combat terrorism. Recommendations include: continuing to conduct theater engagement in concert with the other instruments of power (IOPs) enhancing interagency collaboration at the operational and tactical levels and continuing to support coalition partnering and information sharing.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>