Accession Number:

AD1013554

Title:

Security Assistance and Cooperation: Shared Responsibility of the Departments of State and Defense

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Congressional Research Service Washington

Personal Author(s):

• Serafino,Nina M.

Report Date:

2016-04-04

Pagination or Media Count:

64.0

Abstract:

The Department of State and the Department of Defense DOD have long shared responsibility for U.S. assistance to train, equip, and otherwise engage with foreign military and other security forces. The legal framework for such assistance emerged soon after World War II, when Congress charged the Secretary of State with responsibility for overseeing and providing general direction for military and other security assistance programs and the Secretary of Defense with responsibility for administering such programs. Over the years, congressional directives and executive actions have modified, shaped, and refined State Department and DOD roles and responsibilities. Changes in the legal framework through which security assistance to foreign forces-weapons, training, lethal and nonlethal military assistance, and military education and training-is provided have responded to a wide array of factors.

Descriptors:

• military forces(foreign)
• MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• INTERAGENCY COORDINATION
• department of defense
• DEPARTMENT OF STATE
• military training
• security
• military operations
• military forces
• FOREIGN POLICY
• COOPERATION
• international relations

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE