National_Catalogues: International Relations: Advancing Foreign Area Officers to Flag Officer Rank
Title:
International Relations: Advancing Foreign Area Officers to Flag Officer Rank
Identifier:
ADA500903
STOAbstractExternal:
Army leadership currently assigns operational career field general officers (GO) as the United States Senior Defense Official (SDO) in several countries in United States Central Command's (USCENTCOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR). Although these officers are superb in their career field, this paper will argue that today's Middle East Foreign Area Officer (FAO) is far better qualified to serve as the SDO in these critical operational and strategic level GO positions. It will also argue that expertise and talent demonstrated by FAOs best serves the Army, Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Government in these International billets. This paper will evaluate this argument by briefly addressing the importance of the Middle East to the United States, FAO selection, special training and qualifications, and the current GO billets in USCENTCOM's AOR. We will then evaluate the benefit of having a FAO general as SDO, the Army cultural change required to allow in country and senior staff FAOs to rise to General Officer/Flag rank and the way ahead to realizing this concept. Finally, we will address other DOD billets that would benefit in having the expertise of a FAO GO.
STOAuthorExternal:
ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA Mekhail, Tarek
STOClassificationExternal:
N
STOKeywordsExternal:
*SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIALS, *USCENTCOM(UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND), *FOREIGN AREA OFFICERS, ATTACHES, SECURITY ASSISTANCE, CULTURAL CHANGE
STOPublisher:
USA
Language:
English
STOReportSource:
http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA500903
Published:
11/30/2008
Created at 11/9/2016 3:26 PM by System Account
Last modified at 11/9/2016 3:26 PM by System Account
Go back to list
Home(Publications)