DISAM Journal articles from January 2003

DISAM Journal archives from January 2003

The DISAM Journal of international security assistance management.
January 1, 2003... If you are interested in regional or country activity, do we have the issue for you! Our feature article deals with the security cooperation efforts in Kazakhstan. Discussions center not only on the history and people, but include issues such...

Kazakhstan. (Feature Articles).
January 1, 2003... Kazakhstan is situated in Central Asia, deep in the Eurasian continent. Its territory covers 2,700,900 square kilometers (i.e. 1,049,150 square miles). In terms of the area it is the second largest among the Commonwealth of Independent States....

Security assistance in Kazakhstan: building a partnership for the future.
January 1, 2003... Introduction My first introduction to security assistance in Kazakhstan was December 2000. I had been promoted out of my position as the Central Asia analyst in JCS/J2 and had taken up temporary work in Office of the Secretary of Defense...

Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management mobile education team travels to Kazakhstan.(U.S. security cooperation)
January 1, 2003... With the increased foreign policy emphasis on Central Asia following September 11, 2001, it was only a matter of time before the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) was asked to play its small part in bolstering the...

Kazakhstan: finishing the transformation.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of the speech Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research located in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 13, 2002.] Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research...

Cooperative hemispheric security architecture for the 21st Century. (Legislation and Policy).
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of remarks presented to the conference at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2002.] The dangers of the Cold War have faded. And, new and prominent threats in the hemisphere have...

Defining U.S. foreign policy in a post-post-Cold War world.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of 2002 Arthur Ross Lecture, presented to the Foreign Policy Association, New York, New York, April 22, 2002.] I can think of no better occasion for this discussion than the Arthur Ross Lecture. The name Arthur...

Fourth International Conference on Export Controls.
January 1, 2003... [Keynote address to the Fourth International Conference on Export Controls, September 30-October 3, 2002 Warsaw, Poland, October 3, 2002.] When the United States and other nations began working together on the problem of proliferation of...

Security, stability, prosperity: engaging the eurasian front-line states.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of the remarks delivered at the International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, New Haven, Connecticut, September 20, 2002.] I am pleased to be here today...

Prospects for peace in South Asia.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of the speech presented at the Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda U.S. Institute for Peace Washington, D.C., September 5, 2002.] Introduction, Conflict in the Region I am pleased to be here today to discuss the...

United States approaches to nonproliferation.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of the speech presented at the meeting of Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group, Stockholm, Sweden, September 6, 2002.] Sweden, through its institutions and its people, has a long history of determined...

Implementation of the Lusaka Protocols.
January 1, 2003... [The following are remarks presented to the Special Meeting of the Joint Commission for the Implementation of the Lusaka Protocols, at Hotel Tropico, Luanda, Angola, September 5, 2002.] This is a historic moment for me and for all of us...

The administration's commitment to Sudan.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts of the testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs, Washington, D.C., July 11, 2002.] It is indeed an honor to appear again before this Subcommittee, this time to...

Weak States in Africa: U.S. policy options in the democratic Republic of the Congo.
January 1, 2003... [The following was the speech presented to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2002.] Introduction The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the...

The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative: building hope for the years ahead.
January 1, 2003... [The following are excerpts from the speech given at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., December 12, 2002.] The Middle East is a vast region of vast importance to the American people. Millions of us worship in churches, mosques, and...

Supply chain visibility: United States Air Force adapts to war in Afghanistan and learns logistics lessons. (Perspective).
January 1, 2003... [The following article is a reprint from the Armed Forces Journal International, April 2002. We would like to thank the Journal for reprint permission.] A logistical system designed around large, permanent bases and designed to contain the...

Andean Counterdrug Initiative.
January 1, 2003... [The following is a reprint of the speech presented to the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2002.] We asked for $731 million in fiscal year 2003 for this program and we in turn owe you...

Caribbean narcotics trafficking: what is to be done?
January 1, 2003... Introduction At the end of the Cold War, the advent of globalization catapulted domestic crime across national boundaries into the transnational domain. Transnational crime has since mutated into a complex matrix of criminal activities....

The U.S. approach to combating the spread of small arms.
January 1, 2003... [The following is a fact sheet published by the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Washington, D.C., June 2, 2002.] The proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) in regions of the world suffering from political...

Destroying excess small arms: United States policy and programs.
January 1, 2003... Overview The principal source of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) in many regions of conflict is not new production but recirculated surplus stocks. Cold War-era stockpiles in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet...

A Naval Aviation Foreign Military Sales Logistics Process Improvement Team update.
January 1, 2003... The Naval Aviation FMS Logistics Process Improvement Team (LPIT), chartered by VADM W.C. Bowes Commander, Naval Air systems Command and RADM R. M. Moore Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command in August 1993 to integrate and streamline the...

Achieving security cooperation objectives through the United States European Command Humanitarian and Civic Assistance program. (Security Assistance Community).
January 1, 2003... In 1997 the United States European Command (USEUCOM) consolidated three formerly disjointed Department of Defense (DoD) Humanitarian Assistance programs: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA), Humanitarian Assistance-Other (HA-O), and the...

Security cooperation in a post September 11, 2001 world: the Defense Security Cooperation Agency Worldwide Conference.
January 1, 2003... In this issue of the DISAM Journal, we have provided several of the speeches that were given at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency Worldwide Conference in October, 2002. In addition, many of the presentations can be viewed on the Defense...

Security cooperation in a post September 11, 2001 world.
January 1, 2003... [The following ar remarks delivered to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency Conterence, Alexandria, Virginia, October 17, 2002.] I am no particular stranger to security cooperation. In fact, as we were discussing out in the hail, I am...

Performance Based Costing.
January 1, 2003... Introduction In a Winter 2001-02 DISAM Journal article, Volume 24 No. 2, pp 57-64, Lieutenant General Tome H. Walters, Jr., Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, indicated that several financial management initiatives are...

The Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management mobile education and training team visits the Netherlands. (Education and Training).
January 1, 2003... Since the beginning of fiscal year 2002, the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) has sent thirteen mobile education teams (METs) to numerous countries around the world. On September 9, 2002 DISAM completed its fourteenth...

The Czech Republic welcomes the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management mobile education team.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In Prague, Czech Republic, from October 7-11, 2002, the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) taught a one-week Foreign Purchasers Class. In addition to twenty Czech students, the Ministry of Defense had also invited...

Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management training initiatives for international customers.
January 1, 2003... DISAM has been conducting courses for our international partners for over twenty years. The material presented in these courses range from broad, introductory topics to focused, advanced information. Traditionally, DISAM has offered three...