All Elements of National Power: Moving Toward a New Interagency Balance for US Global Engagement
By Atlantic Council Combatant Command Task Force
Addressing near-term security challenges and long-range global trends requires a broader approach in the execution of America’s regional national security policy, argues All Elements of National Power: Moving Toward a New Interagency Balance for US Global Engagement, a new report by the Atlantic Council’s Combatant Command Task Force. Improving interagency cooperation and integration reduces risks resulting from disjointed efforts in US global engagements and against uncertainty in a dramatically changing world. The report, chaired by General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.), analyzes and provides recommendations on how the United States can resource and restructure to create a more balanced, forward-deployed regional approach essential to improving the integration of national instruments of power—diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and others—to advance US interests at the regional level…
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Try this link, it worked for me.
In short you captured it, the other suggestions are intermediate steps to get to the one end identified which is a regional interagency command and control organization to more effectively enable whole of government approaches.
I think the proposed approach assumes too much risk to our diplomatic element of national power by tying it at the hip with defense. We need our diplomats to be able to operate independently from the military for reasons I consider obvious. I think that would make diplomacy less effective, and encourage the use of hammer (military) when other options are available to achieve our ends.
On the other hand, we clearly need to identify ways to more effectively integrate all of the elements of national power when required, but not by making regional Ambassadors full time members of the Geographical Combatant Commands.
After a cursory read, it seems this is advocating for the creation of something akin to regional "ambassadorships". It also seems to be advocating for inclusion of regional allied members within the office. But because the document wouldn't download completely, I don't know what the rest of the study has in it.