Rationale and Analysis

The study of George Tenet’s actions leading up to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan leaves little doubt about the dysfunction within our government from the appointment of officials to the decision making process itself. Tenet was appointed by President Clinton as Director of the Intelligence (DCI) in 1997, just 19 months after becoming deputy to DCI. It was noted that Tenet had never managed a large organization, worked as an intelligence officer or serviced in the military, all of which would have provided the experience and expertise needed

2. Again, review the DFDs you developed for the Petrie's Electronics case. (I have placed the level 1 diagrams in the Project Workbook - Week 3 folder in doc sharing, use your homework solution for the Record Customer Activities level 1) .

The U.S. Constitution provides power to the President and Congress to develop and enact national security policy (Ulrich, 1). As such our civilian leaders have the right and responsibility to maintain oversight of the military. Two civil-military relations theories, Normal and Clausewitzian, offer competing views. The Normal theory suggests officers are professionals and interference from civilian leaders is inappropriate (Cohen, 4). The Clausewitzian theory contends the statesman may inject himself in any aspect of military strategy since

The command structure in United States Military is vital to the success of missions carried out in or outside the country. The Department of Defense is responsible for overseeing the establishment of command hierarchies that work for specific units. The commands, guidelines, and orders are passed from the highest-ranking personnel to lowest ranking officers who must perform the directive or pass it to subordinates with the same instructions. The principles that establish the command structure in the military evaluates the performance of each command and the officers involved in the various missions. The key principles that affected the execution of Operation Anaconda resulting in mission deficiencies are organizational structure, decision-making, and collaboration.

ABC Company includes post-balance sheet events in our notes. All contingencies or events that occur after the balance sheet date can have a material impact on our operating results, including the operating results of our subsidiaries. All events are fully disclosed. The potential impact of the event is also disclosed, along with the estimate of how significantly the event may impact our financial position.

The department’s leadership is responsible for providing appropriate manpower and resources to each mission using an increasingly tight budget, while also following strict laws for high priority missions, such as nuclear defense, which mandate both high levels of training and manpower (Air Education Training Command, 2015). Additionally, warfare technology has become incredibly advanced. Due to this complication, the educational and technical requirements for military service members and employees are steadily increasing.

Though the research shows that the governance of civilian contractors is a blurry line at best, and while a necessary evil, they are in many cases a danger to those around them if not properly supervised. That supervision is what the evidence will show is extremely difficult to achieve and makes joint operations even more tenuous…The hypotheses is that civilian contractors often answer to multiple sources of command. The research will point to the fact that this confusion of command cost time, effectiveness, and unfortunately even lives. It will also show that it makes determining success or failure much more difficult and tenuous. The hopes of the research and overall findings is that a direction will be found that can ease the tensions and the negative results and possibly find a better way of operating with civilian contractors.

For this research paper, I will be examining some circumstances and challenges surrounding the tenure of former United States Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) The Honorable Robert M. Gates. The evidence to support my research paper will be derived from Alfred A. Knopf’s book entitled, “Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”, and some web journals/articles. Gates was originally appointed SECDEF by President George W. Bush, and asked to remain in that office by his predecessor President Barack Obama. Gates served as SecDef from 2006 to 2011. Before he retired, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor by President Obama.

In 1996, the United States was struggling with the Iraq Disarmament Crisis, as Iraq continued to deny inspectors access to a multiple of sites. The U.S. fails in its attempt to build military support to investigate Iraq and aid the United Nations Council. From this event many people seen flaws in the department of defense and decided they wanted a reform in the chain of command. Many believed that the department of defense needed a lot of changes since it was created in 1947. William Cohen decided to write a new policy for the department of defense to reform and restore the department of defense. He felt that by passing this Act that it could help better protect his Americans that he represents.

The relationship between Civilian and Military authorities has become increasingly complicated. Gregory Foster worked to identify a number of areas that have compounded this expanding divide in his article, “The Silent Crisis”. Of the many issues presented, there are three that the author of this paper believes to be the most pressing. First, the increasing politicization of the upper military leadership. Second, the lack of strategically competent civilian authorities enhances this disparity. Lastly, an increasingly influential military-industrial complex continues to cloud the judgement of civil authorities.

In Pieces of Why by K. L. Going, Tia, a teenage singer, uncovers the secrets of her childhood. Tia lives in a small apartment with her mother; ever since Tia’s youth, her father has been in prison for a robbery. After the day Tia’s father left, her mother never looked back. Tia and her mother never speak about what happened during her childhood.

For the last year and a half, I worked for the ASA (FM&C), whose mission is to prepare, present and support the Army budget to Congress, and to manage the approved and effective use of appropriated resources to complete the Army’s mission. ASA (FM&C) also provides propitious, correct, and trustworthy financial information to allow leaders and managers to include cost concerns into their decision-making. Additionally, ASA (FM&C) delivers transparent reporting to Congress regarding the use of appropriated resources, the accomplishment of approved Army-wide performance objectives, and oversee coordinated programs for the accession, training, and development of Army resource managers. ASA (FM&C) organized with one Director and four Deputies controls

The strict defense budget of the United States seemed to reflect a hindrance upon innovation. The collaboration between military and civilian staff in the Pentagon is an essential aspect of innovation and formation of priorities. The National Defense Act of 1920 was a crippling force against idealistic conditions for innovation . Funding was reduced and the federal government demonstrated their low priority on enhancing military capability. The lack of resources for research and development was a negative aspect of US military interwar context.

Darren will be able to sit and listen to a story, identify characters, settings and major events in a story. He will be able to take frequent walks or breaks to regroup after work is completed to prevent outbursts. Darren will improve his ability to appropriately express his feelings to his teacher. During counseling he will describe positive/negative feelings that he is having as well as label moods that other people may have. I will continue discussing and implementing coping strategies to deal effectively with his frustrations. Darren will improve his ability to manage his anger and frustration. He will learn to use words to express his feelings appropriately. Darren will learn to utilize his coping strategies

Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) is one of the most commonly performed orthopedic surgeries for a degenerative meniscus tear in the knee. Damaged fragments of the meniscus are removed in hopes of alleviating pain and symptoms caused by the tear. Unfortunately, there is not enough evidence supporting the efficacy of this procedure. This study was conducted in order to evaluate the true efficacy of the partial meniscectomy surgery in relieving degenerative meniscal symptoms in comparison to a placebo (sham) surgery. In other words, the rationale for doing the study was to see if there is another way to successfully alleviate patients of symptoms caused by meniscal tear damage without the use of surgery.