An Open Invitation to USAID and other UAPS
The Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) has an ongoing opportunity for short-term training for Department of State (DOS),
Diplomatic Security (DS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
and other interagency personnel.
The JRTC turn toward decisive action (DA) training in full
spectrum operations (FSO) at the end of 2010 was tidal. JRTC
conducted the first DA rotation in a decade; lessons from that
rotation are still affecting the force. But the full scale tsunami of
change came in 2013 with the implementation of the DATE.
The DATE was revolutionary in its portrayal of expeditionary
operations into a sovereign host nation facing the threat of a
near peer enemy. Unified action to achieve Joint interdependence among SOF, conventional, and other partners accurately
replicated the challenges facing a global response force (GRF)
or regionally aligned force (RAF). The “whole of government”
began to block and tackle together. Marshall’s vision as Chief
of Staff in 1939 was applied to the National Security Strategy of
2010.
This interagency training, fully funded by JRTC, supports 2015
Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
and National Security Strategy goals; enhances interagency
collaboration and relationship building; and provides participants with a unique opportunity to interact with highly experienced subject matter experts and military personnel in a kinetic
DATE. JRTC is seeking qualified applicants from diverse agencies to participate in fiscal year (FY) 2016 and beyond DATE
rotations.
In the second edition of Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the
U.S. Foreign Service, Harry Kopp and Charles Gillespie outline
the key changes encapsulated in “Diplomacy 3.0,” the three
pillars—diplomacy, defense, and development—of American
foreign policy:
• The increasing importance of collaboration between the Foreign Service and U.S. Military in “fragile states threatened by or
emerging from combat”;
• The rapid growth of USAID’s Foreign Service, and its integration with DOS; and
• Agreement by both the current Administration and Congress
that, in addition to more people and money, an improved Foreign Service requires better training.4
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