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Security cooperation activities conducted by Department of Defense (DoD) entities with other nations' defense organizations range from the very visible — training, equipping, and exercising together — to those that are less obvious, such as holding bilateral talks, workshops, and conferences and providing education. Yet it is often challenging to determine if these activities have contributed to U.S. objectives. This monograph, based on themes that emerged from a May 2008 assessment workshop held at RAND that included DoD security cooperation assessment experts, planners, and program managers, lays out a framework for security program assessment in terms of five general areas: setting direction, designing assessments, preparing for assessment, conducting assessments, and explaining assessments to others. Participants stressed the need for injecting a greater level of objectivity into the overall assessment process, thus moving away from the current, largely self-assessment approach to security cooperation programs.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Key Themes of the Assessment Workshop

  • Chapter Three

    Key Elements of the Assessment Program Framework

  • Chapter Four

    Implementing the Assessment Framework

  • Chapter Five

    Conclusions and Recommendations

  • Appendix A

    Program Descriptions

  • Appendix B

    Overview of Main Points from October 2008 Assessment Workshop

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