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A review of U.S. diplomatic readiness: addressing the staffing and foreign language challenges facing the foreign service: hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first se
A review of U.S. diplomatic readiness: addressing the staffing and foreign language challenges facing the foreign service : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first se

A Review of U.S. Diplomatic Readiness

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 180


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A Review of U.S. Diplomatic Readiness

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 173


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Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.
Intended to provide solutions for and stimulate a needed conversation about the urgent need to provide funding for United States foreign policies to include additional staffing levels, this study reviews core diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic assistance, and reconstruction/stabilization as four major areas of foreign affairs activity. In addition to staffing shortfalls, this report identified "authority shortfalls" which relate to certain economic and security assistance programs that should be part of the Secretary of State's position but are currently being exercised by the Secretary of Defense.
Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.
Intended to provide solutions for and stimulate a needed conversation about the urgent need to provide funding for United States foreign policies to include additional staffing levels, this study reviews core diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic assistance, and reconstruction/stabilization as four major areas of foreign affairs activity. In addition to staffing shortfalls, this report identified "authority shortfalls" which relate to certain economic and security assistance programs that should be part of the Secretary of State's position but are currently being exercised by the Secretary of Defense.
"As Robert Art makes clear in a groundbreaking conclusion, those results have been mixed at best. Art dissects the uneven performance of coercive diplomacy and explains why it has sometimes worked and why it has more often failed."--BOOK JACKET.