U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE KEY STRATEGIC ISSUES LIST July 2008 Visit our website for other free publication downloads http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil/ To rate this publication click here. ***** All Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) publications are available on the SSI homepage for electronic dissemination. Hard copies of this report also may be ordered from our homepage. SSI’s homepage address is: www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil. ii CONTENTS Foreword......................................................................................................................... v Global and Functional Strategic Issues.....................................................................1 I. Global War on Terror ......................................................................................1 II. Homeland Security/Homeland Defense/Civil Support .......................... 2 III. Military Change............................................................................................... 4 IV. National Security Strategy/National Military Strategy ............................ 6 V. Landpower Employment................................................................................7 VI. Landpower Generation and Sustainment.................................................... 8 VII. Leadership, Personnel Management, and Culture..................................... 9 Regional Strategic Issues........................................................................................... 12 I. Evolving Regional Security Matters in Africa........................................... 12 II. Evolving Regional Security Matters in the Middle East and Islamic World..........................................................................................13 III. Evolving Regional Security Matters in the Asia-Pacific Region ............................................................................14 IV. Evolving Regional Security Matters in Europe......................................... 15 V. Evolving Regional Security Matters in South Asia...................................17 VI. Evolving Regional Security Matters in Central Asia................................17 VII. Evolving Regional Security Matters in the Western Hemisphere .........................................................................18 VIII. Other................................................................................................................ 19 War and Society........................................................................................................... 20 I. American Society........................................................................................... 20 II. International Society...................................................................................... 21 Strategic Studies Institute Subject Matter/Regional Experts............................. 22 Expanded Topic List....................................................................................................23 Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1.......................................23 Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2.......................................29 United States Army Intelligence and Security Command.......................34 Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3.......................................37 Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4.......................................49 iii Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-6.......................................53 Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8.......................................56 Joint Staff, Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5................................58 United States Africa Command........................................................................... 59 United States Central Command.........................................................................64 United States European Command.....................................................................70 United States Army Europe (USAREUR) and 7th Army.........................74 United States Joint Forces Command (J-2)......................................................... 78 United States Army Forces Command....................................................... 79 North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command .....................................................85 United States Pacific Command.......................................................................... 89 United States Southern Command......................................................................99 United States Special Operations Command...................................................103 United States Army Special Operations Command............................... 104 United States Strategic Command ....................................................................113 United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/ Army Forces Strategic Command............................................................. 118 The Defense Intelligence Agency.............................................................. 120 United States Transportation Command......................................................... 124 United States Army Training and Doctrine Command................................. 127 United States Army Combined Arms Center.......................................... 133 United States Army Materiel Command .........................................................139 United States Military Academy....................................................................... 150 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...........................................................................155 Office of the Chief, Army Reserve.....................................................................156 National Guard Bureau.......................................................................................161 iv FOREWORD The Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) offers military and civilian researchers a ready reference of topics that are of particular interest to the Department of the Army and the Department of Defense. The KSIL performs a valuable service by linking the research community with major defense organizations which, in turn, seek to benefit from focused research. It thus forms a critical link in an ongoing research cycle. With the publication of the AY 2008-09 KSIL, the Strategic Studies Institute and the U.S. Army War College invite the research community to address any of the many strategic challenges identified herein. Further information regarding specific topics can be obtained by contacting SSI faculty or relevant KSIL sponsors. DOUGLAS C. LOVELACE, JR. Director Strategic Studies Institute v GLOBAL AND FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES POC: Dr. Robert H. Dorff (717) 245-4126 [email protected] I. Global War on Terror 1. Reconceptualizing the “war” on terror: is it a war, and, if so, what is its nature and how should it be prosecuted? 2. Revising U.S. global strategy for the war on terror; reassessing the ends, ways, and means 3. Understanding challenges confronting the coalition in Afghanistan and developing appropriate responses 4. What coalitions, partnerships, and alliances should the U.S. be building and supporting? 5. What measures of effectiveness should be applied to the larger war on terror? 6. Countering ideological support for terrorism through domestic and foreign means 7. Recognizing progress in counterinsurgency operations, and reinforcing it 8. What proportion of U.S. land power should be focused on counterinsurgency operations and how should it be organized, trained, equipped, and deployed? 9. Training international security forces (military, paramilitary, and police) 10. Balancing political, economic, and military tools in counterinsurgency operations 11. Challenges and opportunities of employing militias in counterinsurgency efforts 12. Should the war on drugs be integrated into the war on terror? 1 13. What should be the military role in the collection of foreign intelligence in areas of interest and the linkage to, and collaboration with, nonmilitary collection? 14. Is there a clash of perspectives between the U.S. focus on the Global War on Terror and the priority placed by our partners on other security issues (e.g., human security in Africa), and, if so, how should we address it? II. Homeland Security/Homeland Defense/ Civil Support 1. Does the U.S. homeland have a center of gravity? 2. Assessing, countering, and responding to WMD threats 3. Identifying intelligence collection requirements and restrictions in homeland security and whether there are any likely and/or possible implications for information/intelligence sharing and warning 4. Information sharing among intelligence, law enforcement, and other federal, state, and local agencies, and the likely and/or possible impacts on warning and our homeland defense/security effectiveness 5. Strategic implications of missile defense as a component of homeland defense. 6. Active and reserve components’ roles in homeland security 7. Combining federal, state, and local resources for combating homeland threats 8. Identifying and protecting DoD and/or non-DoD critical infrastructure 9. Implications of the North American Defense Agreement (U.S., Canada, Mexico) 10. Implications of dual Title 10 and Title 32 responsibilities for State Adjutants General given operational control of federal assets for local event support. Likewise: Implications of dual status