Building Partnership Capacity Marine Corps University Command and Staff College

1. Building Partnership Capacity Marine Corps University Command and Staff College Joint and Multi-National Operations Block of Instruction 4 October 2010

2. YOU are building partnership capacity • Afghanistan • Australia • Canada • France • Georgia • Germany • India • Indonesia • Japan • Jordan • Korea • Lebanon • Malaysia • Morocco • Netherlands • Norway • Pakistan • Philippines • Saudi Arabia • Singapore • Spain • Taiwan • Tanzania • Thailand • Ukraine • United Kingdom • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives • Central Intelligence Agency • Department of State • Drug Enforcement Administration • Federal Bureau of Investigation • National Geospatial-Intelligence Activity

3. Overview & Purpose • Purpose • Sorting out the lexicon • How did we get here? • Where are we going? • How Do We Make This Happen? • My opinion…what you should think about • Learning Objectives: • Assess the relationship among the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war and conceptualize solutions that create the military conditions necessary for strategic success (WFTS 1) • Demonstrate knowledge of emerging and non-traditional concepts that are shaping the character of contemporary joint and multinational operations. (WFTS 5)

4. Building:(v) To develop according to a systematic plan, by a definite process, or on a particular base PARTNER: (n) one associated with another especially in an action : (associate, colleague) Capacity: (n) the facility or power to produce, perform, or deploy SORTING OUT THE LEXICON Source: merriam-webster.com

5. The Building Partnerships Joint Capability Area (JCA) • Includes Cooperative and Non-cooperative elements • Title 10 & 22 Authorities

6. Taxonomy of Terms Security Sector Assistance (Interagency) • BPC Focus Areas • Operational Capacity & Capability Building • Human Capacity / Human Capital Development • Institutional Capacity / Security Sector Reform • Support to Institutional / Civil Sector Capacity Building • Combined Operations Capacity, Interoperability, and Standardization Security Cooperation (DoD) Non-Defense Security Sector Defense Sector Building Capability & Capacity of Partners Security Assistance • Access & Relationships Focus Areas • Operational Access & Global Freedom of Action • Intelligence & Info Sharing • Assurance & Regional Confidence Building • International Armaments Cooperation • International Suasion and Collaboration Access & Relationships

7. “…arguably the most important military component in the War on Terror is not the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we enable and empower our partners to defend and govern their own countries.” HOW DID WE GET HERE? Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Washington, DC, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 To Association of the United States Army (Washington, DC)

8. Background: “Humble Beginnings” • Building Partnership Capacity: Targeted efforts to improve the collective capabilities and performance of the Department of Defense and its partners. • The Department’s partners include all those with whom it cooperates to achieve the national goals such as the following: Other departments and agencies of the USG, Allies, coalition members, Multinational organizations, Non-governmental organizations. • Partnership capacity includes, but is not limited to, the capability to: Defeat terrorist networks, Defend the US homeland, Shape the choices of countries at strategic crossroads, Conduct “military diplomacy” , enable host countries to provide good governance, enable the success of integrated foreign assistance. QDR Execution Roadmap, BPC May 2006.

9. Helping other countries better provide for their own security will be a key and enduring test of U.S. global leadership and a critical part of protecting U.S. security, as well. Improving the way the U.S. government executes this vital mission must be an important national priority WHERE ARE WE GOING? Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010

10. Direction - 2010 QDR Strategy Process DIRECT EXECUTE ASSESS ADVISE • Four Defense Objectives (Ends): • Prevail in Today’s Wars • Prevent and Deter Conflict • Prepare to Defeat Adversaries and Succeed in a Wide Range of Contingencies • Preserve and Enhance the All-Volunteer Force • Force Sizing Criteria (Means): • Representative combinations of the types of overlapping operations against which DOD sizes its forces include the following: • A major stabilization operation, deterring and defeating a regional aggressor, and extended support to civil authorities in response to a catastrophic event in the US • Deterring and defeating two regional aggressors while maintaining a heightened alert posture for US forces in and around the US • A major stabilization operation, a long-duration deterrence operation in the same theater, a medium sized counterinsurgency mission in a separate theater, and extended support to civil authorities in responding to multiple, geographically dispersed events • Six Key Missions (Ways): • Defend the United States and support civil authorities at home • Conduct counterinsurgency, stability, and counterterrorist operations • Build the capacity of partner states • Deter and defeat aggression in anti-access environments • Prevent proliferation and counter weapons of mass destruction • Operate effectively in cyberspace

11. Global Core Partners • COCOM Regional or Functional End State(s) • Security Cooperation Focus Areas • Operational Capacity and Capability Building Campaign Planning & Security Cooperation The COCOM campaign plan is the mechanism for organizing, integrating and prioritizing security cooperation activities • Global End State(s) • Critical Partnerships • Key Supporting Partnerships • Countries of Concern • Human Capacity / Human Capital Development • Institutional Capacity/ Security Sector Reform • Support to Institutional Capacity/Civil –sector Capacity Building • Combined Operations Capacity, Interoperability, and Standardization • Operational Access and Global Freedom of Action • Intelligence and Information Sharing • Assurance and Regional Confidence Building • International Armaments Cooperation • International Suasion and Collaboration • Security Cooperation Activities/Tools

12. US development cooperation policy should emphasize five principal goals: • Alleviation of the worst physical manifestations of poverty among the world’s poor majority. • Promotion of conditions enabling developing countries to achieve self-sustaining economic growth with equitable distribution of benefits. • Encouragement of development processing in which individual civil and economic rights are respected and enhanced • Integration of the developing countries into an open and equitable international economic system. • Promotion of good governance through combating corruption an improving transparency and accountability HOW DO WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN? (THE MEANS) Foreign Assistance Act, Section 101, General Polcy

13. Security Assistance Programs Coordination (red text) Title 22 Title 10 FMF FMS IMET EDA LEASES 1206 1207 PCCF DCS Drawdown ECF EMRA ESF INCLE MRA NADR PKO CSI DA IDA TI 1208 ASFF CCIF CERP CSF CN/CT CTFP HA IACP ISFF JCET OHDACA PCF Combined Exercises Dual Key (blue text)

14. Tools--G-TSCMIS Vision UNCLASSIFIED G-TSCMIS assists decision-makers and analysts to evaluate activities (events/ tasks) to outcomes, plan more effective engagements, and find gaps and opportunities for developing capable partners. It will be the building partnership investment analysis tool for identifying redundant investments and supporting monitor, assess, and allocation of SC funding. Building Partnerships: Improving partner capacity/capability/cooperation. C2: Providing Information Access and Collaboration for enhanced Situational Awareness and Planning Capability. 14

15. If I was a Division Planner trying to build partnerships capacity…what would I think about? • Under what funding and legal authority is the mission sanctioned? • How does what I’m doing tie to higher level objectives? • Why…so if I need more resources I know how to justify them. • …or if what I’m advocating doesn’t support higher objectives, I know I’m fighting an uphill battle • How do I communicate success (or failure) to my higher headquarters? • What does my host nation/agency counterpart think their higher mission is?