DISAM Journal articles from December 2008

DISAM Journal archives from December 2008

DSCA welcomes new Deputy Director.
December 1, 2008... [The following is from a news release from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Washington, DC.] The Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency recently welcomed a new Deputy Director to its Headquarters in Arlington, VA. ...

Welcome to U.S. Africa Command.(FEATURE ARTICLES)
December 1, 2008... [DISAM wishes to acknowledge the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) website as the source of the below listed information. For complete and updated information on current as well as historical beginnings, the reader is referred to...

Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA).(FEATURE ARTICLES)
December 1, 2008... The Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, managed and funded by the Department of State (DOS), is an initiative designed to improve African ability to respond quickly to crises by providing selected militaries...

Remarks at ceremony for U.S. Air Forces Africa.(FEATURE ARTICLES)(Excerpt)
December 1, 2008... [The following is an excerpt from remarks delivered in a ceremony at Ramstein Air Base, Germany to honor the activation of U.S. Air Forces Africa, which will be designated 17th Air Force. The date of the ceremony, September 18, coincided with...

Do I hold the general's hand or just drink his palm wine? Cultural advice for Africa.(FEATURE ARTICLES)
December 1, 2008... The U.S. Armed Forces, backed by the long policy and logistical tail of the DoD, are deploying at a dizzying operational tempo and operating in more countries than ever before in the history of our, or anyone else's, military. In the midst of...

Remarks at the Foreign Affairs Brain Trust on Africa.(FEATURE ARTICLES)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference Washington, DC, September 26, 2008.] I'm delighted to have this opportunity to discuss what I believe will be one of this...

Department of Defense Directive: DoD policy and responsibilities relating to security cooperation.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following DoDD, published and effective 24 October 2008, provides policy for all DoD Security Cooperation activities, as well as articulating the broad general responsibilities at the most senior levels within DoD. One significant change...

U.S.-Russia relations.(Legislation and Policy)(Excerpt)
December 1, 2008... [The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by the Secretary of State to the German Marshall Fund, Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC on September 18, 2008.] The German Marshall Fund is an indispensable organization,...

Defeating Al-Qaeda's Air Force: Pakistan's F-16 program in the fight against terrorism.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a statement by Donald Camp, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South Asia, Washington, DC, September 16, 2008.]...

U.S.-Japan relations: partnership and progress.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from Arvizu's statement before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, June 12, 2008.] It is a privilege to appear before you...

Protocols to the North Atlantic treaty.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from testimony as delivered before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC, September 10, 2008.] I will discuss NATO's [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] purposes in the Cold War and today; the...

Integrated security assistance: the 1207 program.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a July 2008 report prepared by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) for the Departments of State and Defense. The views expressed in this report, in accordance with USIP policy, do not advocate specific...

Biden addresses military's expanding role in U.S. foreign policy.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a press release from the office of Senator (Vice President-elect) Biden, July 31, 2008.] Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. held a hearing entitled "Defining the...

Opening statement for hearing on military role in foreign policy.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a transcript of U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republican Leader Dick Lugar's opening statement at the committee hearing on defining the military's role in foreign policy, July 31, 2008.] During...

Military's role toward foreign policy.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, DC, July 31, 2008.] Thank you for inviting me today to provide the Department of State's views of the roles of civil and military...

Invigorating the U.S.-Turkey strategic partnership.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a speech delivered at Turgot Ozal Memorial Lecture at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, DC, June 24, 2008.] Like Turkey itself, U.S.-Turkey relations have navigated remarkable...

Remarks at the 38th General Assembly of the Organization of American States.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from remarks delivered in Medellin, Colombia, June 3, 2008.] Sixty years ago, the nations of the Americas came together here in Colombia to adopt the OAS [Organization of American States] Charter and the...

U.S. perspectives on the Black Sea Region.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a speech prepared as the Keynote Address at the Woodrow Wilson Center Conference: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on the Wider Black Sea Region, Washington, DC, June 10, 2008.] The Black Sea region is growing...

A U.S. Asian partnership.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a speech delivered to the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, September 17, 2008.] The United States has been a Pacific power for much of its history. Indeed, our relations with Asia began not far...

Improvements to the Defense Trade Export Control System.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts of remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, February 26, 2008.] I am excited to discuss with you the significant changes that this Administration has undertaken which we...

Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a media note released by Office of the Spokesman, Washington, DC, September 25, 2008.] The Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States met today in New...

MANPADS: combating the threat to global aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from a fact sheet released by the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Washington, DC, July 31, 2008.] Countering the proliferation of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) is a top national security...

Remarks on release of the annual report on the major illicit drug producing countries for fiscal year 2008.(Legislation and Policy)
December 1, 2008... [The following are remarks delivered September 16, 2008, Washington, DC.] Yesterday, the President made his annual designation of the so-called Majors' List of illegal drug-transit and drug-producing countries. As the Assistant Secretary...

Army unveils new stability operations manual.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... [The following is from an article released by the Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) News Service on October 6, 2008.] The commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Gen. William S. Wallace, unveiled new...

Developing an interagency stabilization and reconstruction lessons learned process.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... [The following article originally appeared in the Consortium for Complex Operations Defense Diplomacy Development, Edition: August 2008, Issue No. 2.] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Agency-specific lessons learned processes and multiagency...

Civil affairs sailors work to improve humanitarian effort outcomes.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... The Navy's budding civil affairs force will help sustain U.S. military humanitarian efforts in developing countries, the force's commander told online journalists and bloggers in an August 8, 2008 teleconference. Many past humanitarian...

U.S., Serbian leaders discuss new ways to cooperate.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... The military-to-military relationship between the United States and Serbia is growing closer, the top military officers of both countries said here, Oct. 20, 2008. Serbian Army Chief of Defense Gen. Zdravko Ponos and ADM Mike Mullen, the...

The Merida Initiative: fact sheet.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... The Merida Initiative demonstrates the United States' commitment to partner with governments in Mexico and Central America to confront criminal organizations whose actions plague the region and spill over into the U.S. [ILLUSTRATION...

French military docs, nurses contribute to continuing promise.(Security Assistance Community)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since August, the Continuing Promise (CP) 2008 mission has included medical personnel from Brazil, the Netherlands, and Canada. During outreach efforts to the Dominican Republic Oct. 3-16, medical personnel from...

The Department of Defense role in foreign assistance: background, major issues, and options for Congress: August 25, 2008.(Perspectives)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts of a report prepared for members and committees of the Congress by the Congressional Research Service. References to Annexes or Appendices have been retained in the excerpt even though the Annex or Appendix itself...

Colombia: an opportunity for lasting success: fact sheet.(Perspectives)
December 1, 2008... "With courage and sacrifice, Colombians have taken their nation from the verge of failure to the brink of peace and prosperity in little mare than a decade. The U.S. has been with them every step of the way." --Secretary of State...

Peacekeeping: a report on the global peace operations initiative.(Perspectives)
December 1, 2008... [The following are excerpts from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report, GAO-08-754 June 26, 2008.] Summary In 2004, in response to the Group of Eight (G8) Sea Island Summit, the United States established the Global Peace...

Field Studies Program: mining the unintended consequences.(Perspectives)
December 1, 2008... In July 2008, DISAM hosted nineteen ranking officers of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the National Police, Iraqi Special Forces and the Counterterrorism Bureau for an accelerated course in the aspects of Security Assistance most pertinent to...

The creation of Expanded International Military Education and Training (E-IMET).(Education and Training)
December 1, 2008... [This is an article developed from an original paper written at the National War College in 2008.] The advent of the Cold War's demise and changes to the international security structure in the late 1980s-early 1990s sparked an initiative...

Controlled unclassified information "a review and revision".(Education and Training)
December 1, 2008... The very mention of the words TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFIDENTIAL which define the classification levels of the USG national security information, alert one to be vigilant. The Executive Order 12958 (EO 12958), as amended, establishes the...

Training and educating for complex operations: what DISAM can do for you.(Education and Training)
December 1, 2008... In September, I attended the 2008 Stability Operations Training and Education Workshop sponsored by the Consortium for Complex Operations (CCO) with support from a number of other prominent organizations and key USG agencies, including those...

Security Assistance Management Manual (SAMM) tips.(Education and Training)
December 1, 2008... [The following are tips courtesy of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency Newsletter--multiple editions.] Letter of Requests (LOR) Submitted by Electronic Mail If purchasers prefer to send LOPs via electronic means, they must provide...