National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy – Themes and Imperatives

National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy – Themes and Imperatives

This research highlights the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics (NSWBCN) Strategy’s objectives, action plans, stakeholders, challenges, and themes. To tackle the challenges, the report details specific recommendations that can be used as potential solutions. The main themes that feature in the NSWBCN strategy include law enforcement, interagency collaboration, and cross-domain strategies. Law enforcement features largely due to the primary involvement of law enforcers. The activities that take place at the SWB mainly include ensuring that activities such as drug, human, and illegal weapons trafficking do not take place. The process of curbing these activities includes the utilization of the intelligence that is provided by relevant bodies, making arrests, collaborating with the communities, and dismantling the well-organized groups (Kaiser, 2011).

Interagency collaboration is critical for the success of the NSWBCN strategy because the combined effort ensures proper utilization of resources, both financial and human (United States General Accounting Office, 2000). The collaboration also allows maximum efficiency in matters that are related to intelligence, sharing of information, procurement of weapons and other tools required for law enforcement on the border, and utilization of financial resources. These aspects affect the success of the operation, and one of the recommendations highlights the need for increased collaboration among the involved agencies. Cross-domain strategies also crop up as an important theme in the NSWBCN strategy (J7, 2016). The need to plan around different domains has been tackled in the research. Various critical factors that should be considered in the planning process have been highlighted based on their importance to the NSWBCN efforts. Each of these three themes highlights different and similar elements that will eventually play a critical role in the overall performance of the NSWBCN strategy.

Way Ahead/Recommendations

The information obtained from the case study can be put to productive use variably. First, it can be used to seek additional funds to enable the completion of the tasks that lead to the realization of the main objectives. Already, the agencies involved have limited resources to conduct their roles in different aspects that affect the nation’s security. Therefore, their role in the NSWBCN strategy can be used to pitch for additional funds from the relevant governmental authorities. The main strategy in accessing additional funds would entail highlighting the results that have been obtained up to a particular point, the challenges that they encountered, the resources that have been consumed thus far, the goals that remain unachieved, and the deficit of financial resources. In addition to this breakdown, the NSWBCN strategy managers should detail the financial resources planned to be used and the agency under which each allocation will be registered. Such transparent information should highlight the financial bottlenecks that the NSWBCN strategy is currently facing and duplication points wherever multiple agencies are involved. Therefore, the approach enables the federal government to redistribute resources and direct collaboration between agencies for increased efficiency.

Secondly, the information can be used to redirect the role of specific agencies and review human resources. The roles that each agency plays in the NSWBCN strategy should be clear yet lead towards the achievement of the main objectives using collaborative means. However, the organization of these agencies is important to ensure that each performs the roles for which they are well equipped. This organization should be guided by the requirement of skills and knowledge in the NSWBCN strategy as well as each agency’s plethora of human resources. This second step should equip the NSWBCN team to perform better and ensure that all other agencies collaborate without difficulties.

References

J7. (2016). Cross-Domain Synergy in Joint Operations. Retrieved from https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/concepts/cross_domain_planning_guide.pdf?ver=2017-12-28-161956-230

Kaiser, F. M. (2011). Interagency Collaborative Arrangements and Activities: Types, Rationales, Considerations. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41803.pdf

United States General Accounting Office. (2000). Managing for Results: Barriers to Interagency Co-ordination. Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/assets/ggd-00-106.pdf

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Prepare a 1-page overview that distills the themes and imperatives from your case study and the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics (NSWBCN) Strategy analysis, providing an integrated and comprehensive summary of your research.

National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy – Themes and Imperatives

Way Ahead or Recommendations

Draft a 1-page section to forge consensus within the U.S. Government’s interagency to garner financial support on Capitol Hill. Answer the following question:

How do you propose putting this case study/analysis to productive use?
Key Assignment Final Draft

After reviewing the comments from your peers and instructor, submit the final draft of your case study analysis. Be sure to include the following:

You will write an introduction to the project, which highlights the strategic purpose for the NSWBCN Strategy and outlines your case study on the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) being smuggled across the Southwest border (SWB).
You must include highlights of the all-threat environment that exists on the SWB for the key stakeholders of the Interagency Police Committee (ICP) within the interagency.
You should create a graphic diagram of the rules and policies that apply to the region, along with a list of overarching themes that summarize the challenges.
You should write a point paper emphasizing the need for better multiagency coordination on the SWB.
You should prepare an executive outline of the specific chapters of the NSWBCN Strategy that describes how they might support the state-level objectives of governors of the border states with homeland security equities on the SWB.
You should include a policy proposal explaining how SWB-related critical infrastructure protection (CIP), response, and resilience imperatives should be fully integrated into future versions of department of homeland security (DHS) strategies and policies, with general recommendations that would be appropriate for DHS planners to consider.
You should have a quad chart and supporting information that explains the planning variables associated with cross-domain strategies.
You should write a thought piece on improving cooperation with Mexico.
You should include a road map with proposed steps to significantly raise the level of coordination among the constellation of interagency players at the SWB.
You should add an Executive Summary and a Way Ahead or Recommendations section.
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