Anticipating that the U.S. Army will continue to deploy regionally aligned forces in support of security cooperation and security force assistance missions, this research investigates how a U.S. Army Brigade Combat Team (BCT) should conduct foreign police development. By reviewing police theory, current U.S. Army doctrine, and the lessons learned from the police development efforts in Iraq, a foreign police development model is proposed that focuses on police centric lines of effort instead of traditional military stability lines of effort. The proposed model is tested against a hypothetical scenario, whereby a U.S. Army BCT is deployed to Kenya to support the development of the Kenyan National Police Services. Using a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis to measure the efficacy of the BCT's organic structure in conducting foreign police development, potential solutions to capability gaps are presented in the DOTMLPF framework. This thesis concludes that the U.S. Army BCT is not formally structured or supported by doctrine to conduct foreign police development however, it can achieve a desired end state with significant military and civilian police enablers and an understanding of police theory and the lessons learned from previous police reform efforts.
Brigade Combat Team the World's Police: Understanding the United States Army Brigade Combat Team's role in Developing Foreign Police
2014
106 pages
Report
No indication
English
Social Concerns , Military Sciences , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Law enforcement , Military police , Military training , Army , Brigade level organizations , Cooperation , Foreign , Iraq , Kenya , Leadership , Lessons learned , Military doctrine , Military forces(United states) , Scenarios , Teams(Personnel) , Army bct , Foreign police development , Swot(Strengths weaknesses opportunities threats) , Bct(Brigade combat teams) , Dotmlpf(Doctrine organization training material leadership personnel , Security force assistance , Theses , United states army , Kenyan national police services , Democratic policing , Bct organizational structure