Building Partner-Nation Capacity Through the Defense Education Enhancement Program

Alan G. Stolberg, Stuart Johnson, Laura Kupe

Expert InsightsPublished Dec 4, 2018

In response to new global challenges, defense education practitioners have promoted multinational and multistakeholder training in defense education institutions. The United States, working in close cooperation with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters, has signaled the importance of defense education in its engagement with a number of former Soviet Union states and NATO partner nations of interest through the creation of the Defense Education Enhancement Program (DEEP).

This document reviews DEEP by defining the program, its functions, and why it is valuable to participating nations. The authors describe its specific purpose, the efforts that have been made to gauge DEEP's effectiveness, some select accomplishments, and the significant lessons learned about the program.

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Stolberg, Alan G., Stuart Johnson, and Laura Kupe, Building Partner-Nation Capacity Through the Defense Education Enhancement Program. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2018. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE286.html.
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