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008 101130s2010 caua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010048769
020 $a0833050893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780833050892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
027 $aRAND/TR-907-AF
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn688643482
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050 00 $aUG633$b.A438 2010
082 00 $a358.4/160973$222
245 00 $aAdding value to Air Force management through building partnerships assessment /$cJefferson P. Marquis ... [et al.].
260 $aSanta Monica, CA :$bRAND,$c2010.
300 $axx, 110 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c28 cm.
490 1 $aTechnical report (Rand Corporation) ;$vTR-907-AF
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Air Force perspectives on security cooperation assessments -- understanding the Air Force's current capacity to conduct security cooperation assessments -- Strengthening the case for a comprehensive approach to security cooperation assessment -- Assessment insights, findings, and recommendations -- Appendix A: Assessment survey approach and results -- Appendix B: Assessment survey template.
520 $aConfronting an era of persistent global conflict with stable or declining defense resources, the United States needs partners to augment their own security-related capabilities and capacity. The U.S. Air Force has worked for many years with allies and friendly nations to build strong and enduring partnerships reinforce other nations' capacities both to defend themselves and to work in coalitions, and ensure U.S. access to foreign territories for operational purposes. The activities conducted by the Air Force range from training, equipping, and exercising with others to holding bilateral talks, workshops, and conferences and providing education. Yet, it is often challenging to specify how much and in what ways these activities have contributed to U.S. policy objectives. This report builds on prior RAND research that developed a conceptual framework for assessing the Air Force's security cooperation efforts. In this follow-up study, researchers worked with Air Force leaders to better understand and attempt to overcome certain obstacles to the implementation of RAND's proposed framework. This report presents the results of surveys of and focus groups with a variety of Air Force leaders on security cooperation assessment. It presents a refined framework, based on these results, that focuses on four questions-Why assess? What to assess? How to assess? Who should assess?-and provides examples of how the framework could be applied to two example Air Force programs, the Operator Engagement Talks and the Military Personnel Exchange Program. The authors conclude with a discussion of problems identified and recommend a four-part strategy for establishing a new, integrated approach to Air Force security cooperation assessment.
530 $aAlso available via the Internet.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bAir Force$xOperational readiness.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bAir Force$xForeign service.
650 0 $aCombined operations (Military science)
650 0 $aMilitary art and science$xInternational cooperation.
650 0 $aMilitary assistance, American.
651 0 $aUnited States$xMilitary relations.
700 1 $aMarquis, Jefferson P.
830 0 $aTechnical report (Rand Corporation) ;$vTR-907-AF
856 4 $uhttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR907.pdf