NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY BRIEF ASSIGNMENT #5

Over several modules, you will provide an assessment of conditions impinging upon the security of the United States by submitting a National Security Policy Brief Assignment, using either PowerPoint or MS Word. The National Security Policy Brief Assignments will cover a specific area of specialization chosen by the student and discussing that topic in light of the questions and criteria indicated below for each brief.  Briefings provide the opportunity to articulate each stage of policy analysis leading up to recommendation and the nature of appropriate monitoring of policy execution. You are to make reference to Learn materials and outside materials while discussing the specifics required to effectively assess national security initiatives. Your entries should reflect your understanding of the reading materials and presentations assigned, articulating significant methodological points while incorporating pertinent materials in support of your research approach. You may also submit an MP3 recording to augment your analysis.

Each National Security Policy Brief Assignment must be 23 pages, double spaced, in current Turabian format.

Please note: the emphasis on these assignments is not on a set page length, but rather on succinctness and thoroughness.

Below are the assigned questions/competencies which should be discussed for each National Security Policy Brief Assignment:

National Security Policy Brief: Part 5 Problem Solving and Construction Assignment

6: Sustainment: Sanctified Imaginings, Information for Decision-Making

Competency #6 Prescribe Leveraging Points

Competency 7 Orchestrate God-Honoring, Sustained Multiplication

• What obstacles or points of decision were instrumental in yielding the current outcome?

• Source of Obstacle?
• Detailed Nature of Each Obstacle List of Decision Points

• What would have to be in place in terms of civilian capacity and military relations to have prevented this series of scenarios?
• Lessons to be Learned Concerning Each Obstacle
• What were the key decision points?

• What were the dominant attributes of key decision-makers?
• What operative assumptions and facts influenced the choice of approach taken by the various stakeholders?

o   What are the attributes of the specific case that are generally agreed upon?

• Please assess the following relationships:
• Stakeholder to stakeholder
• Stakeholder to crisis
• Change in position among individual stakeholders
• Change in the central stakeholder

• What did this crisis reveal about the stakeholders, the institutions, the specific nation, the international community at-large, and the United States in particular?
• What can others learn from the specific case?

• Implication(s) for Future Action Plans

o   How might the nation’s crisis and subsequent scenarios be avoided in the future?

o   What indicators of susceptibility to crisis require monitoring, by whom, and in what areas?