Department of War, Department of Peace [Updated]

I have been meaning to post some ideas on re-orging the The US National Power effort.

To a large extent, I have bought into Tom Barnett’s ideas.

How do we get there from here though?

I have already outlined how DHS could be ripped apart.

He are my initial thoughts on the Military:

1) Closeout the Department of Defense

It served us well enough in the cold war. The cold war is over.

2) Create a Department of the Armed Forces

The Department of the Armed Forces (DAF) will be responsible for the care,
feeding, wellbeing, outfitting and training of all US Armed Forces – Past, Present and Future.

• This new department would include all of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard – Active, Reserve, and Guard.
• Fold in the the old departments of the Army, Air Force, and Navy – but they won’t exist anymore
• Fold in the existing Department of Veterans Affairs
• Include an Armed Forces General Staff
• Include a Joint Armed Forces Logistics command
• Include a Joint Armed Forces Intelligence Command
• [Update] Include a Joint Armed Forces Transportation Command
• [Update] The current Joint Forces Command’s role would be adsorbed by the the new Department of the Armed Forces

3) Create a Department of War (DWar – “Dee-War”)

This is the leviathan, the state crusher, with the 3GW Warfighting capability, a 2GW WMD capability, A Special Operations / Commando capability and the required logistics and intelligence support capabilities.

• It will contract out for resources (human and material) from the sources that make sense for its mission.
• The sources for human resources will included units contracted from and supplied from the the DAF, but also from Private Military Companies (PMC), Private Security Companies (PSC), Private Intelligence Companies, Other companies and countries. The Department of War is focused on the State Crushing mission.

4) Create a Department of Peace (DPeace or “Deep”)

This is the SysAdmin or Global Support capability.

I like calling it the Department of Peace because it shows the black-and-white with the Department of War (Destroyer vs Creator) and because it co-ops the name from a lefty idea (and will drive some of them crazy um more crazy – heh).

It should have moved to it, development portions of State, Treasury and other government organizations.

The Department of Peace does: COIN, Sysadmin, economic development, nation-building and institution-building, peace corps type goodwill stuff, civil and municipal engineering projects and the like and much much more.

The sources for human resources will included units contracted from and supplied from the the DAF, but also from Private Military Companies (PMC),
Private Security Companies (PSC), Private Intelligence Companies, Other
companies and countries, and the new National Emergency Response Authority.

Update: Here is the link to my next post in logical sequence:

I propose that that the Unified Combatant Commands be replaced with Unified Action Executives (UAE) that combine and coordinate all elements of US Power.