Solved by verified expert:This week’s readings had you read select national strategies and other strategic documents that serve to establish homeland security goals and enabling objectives. Applying and analyzing the information you gathered from those readings, please respond to the following:1. What are the desired characteristics of a national strategy document?2. What is meant by a strategy hierarchy? Forum Rubric: Answers the forum question(s) with a relevant, coherent and scholarly initial forum response (>250 words) 20/20; demonstrates lesson comprehension in forums with no more than 10% of content as direct quotes 15/15; employs complete and proper APA in-text parenthetical citations of the required readings for this week 10/10; responses to two classmates initial forum answers (>100 words each) 20/20; quality answer to professor follow-up question 20/20, main forum has APA reference list at end of forum (including the required readings) 5/5; reads and acknowledges professors end of week wrap up forum 10/10.Note: your primary forum post answering the assigned question for the week is due on Thursday by 1155PM EST, and per the syllabus you can lose up to 5 points per day for late work.Instructions: Craft your main forum answer is like a short paper directly answering the topic of the week with a well written response that fully utilizes the required readings for the week with at least 250 words. Focus only on the assigned question(s) in a scholarly manner using in-text citations from the required readings (save your personal experiences and opinions for your four forum replies in any given week). Each sentence quoting or paraphrasing any ideas or information from any source must be cited properly including the author and year of publication. Do not cite the APUS lessons — they are just basic information to start the week off and is not meant to be a primary source for you to reference in your reply (to receive full credit you must utilize and cite the listed required readings for that week). If directly quoting from the readings (or other scholarly sources), you must also include the page or paragraph number that you are quoting from like (Hoffman, 2006, p.7) or for articles and sources without pages (Renner, 2016, para.15). If you are directly quoting and there is no page number to cite, then you manually count the paragraphs and cite that number. You also need to have an APA style reference list at the end of your post listing the sources employed. For more on APA citations and reference lists see the APUS Style Guide for APA. You must first provide your own initial forum answer before replying to any classmates or the professor. The four replies of the week are more of a free flowing classroom discussion which offers you an opportunity to leverage your relevant personal experiences and express your thoughts and opinions. Respond to at least two other students initial forum answers with a minimum of 100 words each. In your replies to classmates you may offer your opinion on the topic of the week, substantially support or supplement another student’s answer, or even politely disagree with or challenge their forum answer (but do not ask your classmates questions, or do so only as a last resort per the forum philosophy). You will also reply to my follow up question in your own forum string, and also read and acknowledge the Professor wrap up forum I post toward the end of the week. Also, do not be afraid to respectfully disagree with the readings or a classmate where you feel appropriate; as this should be part of your analysis process and employing critical thinking and academic freedom. Forum posts are graded based on demonstrated knowledge of the lesson and weekly readings, relevance, timeliness, as well as clarity and quality of analysis and synthesis. Sources utilized to support answers are to come from the weekly readings, but other credible and scholarly sources may be used to supplement (but not replace) the assigned readings. However, dictionaries, encyclopedias and Wikipedia are not scholarly and are not acceptable sources in college level work. Do not use non-scholarly open websites as sources for your reply to the main forum answer. All forum work must be completed within the academic week. When replying to the main forum answer make sure to include your name in the “topic title” of your initial forum answer/response.
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Student 1
1.What are the desired characteristics of a national strategy document?
There is a lot that goes into national strategy documents, “The OHS Unity of Effort Initiative
builds important linkages between the Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, and
execution processes, ensuring that the Department invests and operates in a cohesive, unified
fashion, and makes decisions that are transparent and collaborative to drive strategic guidance to
results.” (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2015, pg. 3) Since there is so much
information that is needed to make a strategy document they usually try and incorporate
investment, strategic and operational planning, and stakeholder engagement. These documents
are also put in place to defend the nations home front, “This includes eliminating threats to their
physical safety, countering threats to global peace and security, and promoting and protecting
U.S. interests around the globe.” (Obama, 2015, pg. 14) Which at the end of the day is the main
goal.
2. what is meant by a strategy hierarchy?
A strategy hierarchy is a basically a strategy with a bunch of parts that help it achieve max
capacity, “The other strategies provide further levels of detail on the specific functions related to
weapons of mass destruction, cyber security, protection of physical infrastructure, and money
laundering.” (Yim, 2004, pg. 7) The private sector plays a good role because most strategies
don’t run by themselves, “Because national strategies are not governed by a single, consistent set
of requirements, we consulted a variety of public and private sector sources to identify a set of
desirable characteristics.” (Yim, 2004, pg. 8) With that being said they also review and study the
GPRA on strategic planning and performance.
v/r
Josh
Reference:
– Obama, B. (2015). National Strategy for Counterterrorism. Washington, DC: Government
Printing Office.
– U. S. Department of Defense: Joint Chiefs of Staff. (2015). The National Military Strategy of
the United States of America 2015. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
– U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (2015). Department of Homeland Security Strategic
Plan: Fiscal years 2014-2018. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Read Pages 14-47
– Yim, R. A. (2004). Combating terrorism: Evaluation of selected characteristics in national
strategies related to terrorism. U. S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-04-408T.
Student 2
1. What are the desired characteristics of a national strategy document?
Being in the U.S. Army, when I am asked to develop a strategic plan of how I am going to
protect an assigned area of operation, I tend have to think of so many aspects that can occur and
analyze them over a certain risk assessments. When it comes to a National Strategic document, I
think of the following:
1. Purpose, Scope and Methodology – understanding of the purpose of the strategy, providing a
scope that constitutes the strategy, and a way of process.
2. Problem Definition – utilize the 7 steps of problem solving as well as analyzing the risk
assessments
3. Benchmarks – milestones that are targeted throughout the process to maintain properly
timeliness to accomplish the mission
4. Resources – analyzing what tools and resources we have on hand, what we need
5. Organizational Role – a strategic battle plan of every organizations assigned tasks to be
accomplished
6. Integration – an overall assessment to the entire plan, goals, and task results
2. What is meant by a strategy hierarchy?
Strategy hierarchy can be viewed as a ladder. It take a step up to get to the top of the ladder
and a step down to get to the bottom. You can cannot skip steps as you may fall and hurt
yourself so you have to take a step at a time to reach a desired location. In strategy hierarchy, it
all starts at the highest level of an organization, down to an agency, and tactical level at the
bottom. You cannot skip levels as they must all follow through one another to reach the top or
the bottom. For example, in the United States Army, there is a proper chain of command. For me
being a station commander, I receive my mission from my company commander, I then task my
recruiters with their assigned mission. Once the overall mission is accomplished, I reward and
take care of my team then brief my company commander of the team’s accomplishments. In no
way or for any reason will my team contact the company commander as that is not the order of
chain of command.
References:
Reese, S. (2014, August 6). CRS Insights: 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review:
Evolution of Strategic Review. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved from
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/IN10127.pdf
Yarger, H. Richard. (n.d). Towards A Theory of Strategy: Art Lykke and the Army War College
Strategy Model. Retrieved from http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army-usawc/stratpap.htm.
– Mike
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