Georgetown politics professor builds critical skills among Foreign Area Officer community
Article (76.36Kb)Description
In February, the Quadrennial Defense Review called on the Military Departments to prepare commissioned and noncommissioned officers "for the full range of complex missions that the future security environment will demand" by "building expertise in foreign language, regional, and cultural skills." With the assistance of outstanding colleagues at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), I'm doing just that! We're building the Joint Foreign Area Officer Skill Sustainment Pilot Program, JFSSPP for short, to provide resources and educational opportunities for the rapidly growing Foreign Area Officer (FAO) community.
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Recycled bricks: exploring opportunities to reintegrate returning American foreign fighters using existing models
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-12);Foreign fighters have been engaged in conflicts for hundreds of years, but the sheer number of foreign fighters who travel to Iraq and Syria during the last five years is unprecedented. The United States is not sure what ... -
Toward a better union: improving the effectiveness of foreign policies
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-06);A fundamental characteristic of state-state interaction in a globalized system is the explicitness with which states communicate their foreign policies to each other. In order to understand the role and the importance of ... -
Evaluating foreign-source dependencies in U.S. Army missile system production
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-03);This purpose of this thesis is to inform the acquisition community of the growing concern about the dependence upon foreign sources for both components and technologies used to produce Army missile systems. The extent of ...
