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In summary, DoD has many unique capabilities to help thwart or reduce the consequences of attacks from transnational forces. There are many activities ongoing that are relevant to dealing with this threat, but the Department is on a steep learning curve. The current level of effort falls short of what is needed and some critical capabilities are eroding. The Department’s role will vary, with DoD most often playing a supporting role on US soil, but in charge of force protection abroad. In any scenario, DoD will logically be a major player. As such, the Department should be committed for the long term. Tomorrow’s Challenge: Six Organizing Principles The US response to transnational threats involves both an offensive and defensive component. The nation’s goal is to use whatever tools it can to shape the environment, to deter transnational threats, to detect and interdict activities, to protect its forces and civilian population, and if an incident does occur, to mitigate its consequences. Different types of threat require a different response, drawing on the nation’s wide range of capabilities, including those of DoD. This DSB task force sees a need for strengthening DoD’s response capabilities and has identified six elements of a DoD response strategy, each of which will be discussed in detail in subsequent chapters. They are listed here: 1. Treat transnational threats as a major DoD mission 2. Use the existing national security structure and processes 3. Define an end-to-end operational concept and system-of-systems structure 4. Provide an interactive global information system on transnational threats 5. Address needs that have long been viewed as “too hard” 6. Leverage worldwide force protection and civil protection Together, these principles form the structure for effectively positioning DoD against the transnational threats of the future. Notably, the task force holds that DoD can respond without change to national roles and missions and without change in its own organization. The following chapters discuss the six elements of a DoD response strategy. Chapter 2 examines the first three elements which focus on organizing for a DoD response: prioritizing the threat, assigning roles and responsibilities, and developing a concept of operations and architecture to guide the Department’s actions in the future. This chapter also examines the parallelism between force protection and civil protection. In Chapter 3, key technical challenges are discussed: developing a global information infrastructure and responding to the difficult threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and information warfare. The final chapter summarizes the task force recommendations as actions for the Department’s leadership. These 8
are the steps that DoD needs to take in order to have an effective response capability to the transnational threats of today and the future. 6 6 Volumes II and III offer more detailed discussions of the topics presented in this volume. 9
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