United States Department of Defense

armed forces of the United States of America, and it consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The commander-in-chief/Military’s overall head is the president of the United States, he helps form military policies with the US DoD, as well as helping carry them out. The US is considered the strongest military force in the world today, and becoming the strongest force in the world requires money; The US spends what the whole rest of the world spends on defense: $597.5…

federal spending on big ticket items, in particular, the Department of Defense. One of the most common arguments revolve around the fact that the United States spends more money on the defense budget that a half dozen countries combined (U.S. Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries). The stakeholders in the argument essentially would be the American people. Decreasing the national debt would have a positive effect on the taxpayers and the state of the country as a whole while national debt…

the United States Armed Forces have needed to take more actions into account for the protection and well-being of all of the people of the United States. Such actions include sending more troops and building more bases in the Middle East in order to counter the actions of the Militant group known as ISIS. Some may say that having more bases makes us stronger and more protected, but the truth of the matter is that having more bases could cause the United States to be in more danger. The United…

predictions have forecasted mass displacement and large famine, indicating a grave future for the world if current climate trends continue. Multitudes of people will be displaced and natural resources will be wiped out. Specifically studying the United States, climate change would adversely influence its infrastructure. America’s national security groundwork will be affected through the weakening of its military resources and the inevitable chaos from the citizens of the country, allowing a…

These proposed changes would affect all segments of the active duty military, their reserve components, anyexisting and future weapons systems, the civilian DOD workforce andall logistic and administration components of the Department of Defense. The next set of changes would be on the level of second order change, would transform the organization and basically alter the nature of the organization. With second order change, the need for major organizational change found eight commonly…

ebrace the notion of “Stability Operations?” It is difficult to argue against something as altruistic as “Stability Operations.” In 2005, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) published a report on institutionalizing stability operations within the DoD. It admitted “there had been noticeable progress within the Department toward explicit embrace of stability operations as a core activity.” The bandwagoning to classify military activities seeking to achieve stability as “Stability…

homeland security and homeland defense. Construct a response that provides the following related to both homeland security and homeland defense: • Primary missions, tasks, duties, responsibilities, operations, etc. for each broad initiative. • Resources needed/utilized to address them • Highlight those responsibilities and efforts that are shared between the two • Lastly, provide your…

in which the United States Air Force receives and distributes money each fiscal year. This assignment is submitted as an alternate proposal to the Cost of Capital Budgeting Analysis assignment, as the US Department of Defense does not use capital budgeting processes or the weighted average cost of capital numeric to qualify how to spend and invest their money, nor does it calculate official ROIs. In this paper, I will discuss the chronological process by which the Department of Defense and the…

The events of September 11th, 2001 changed the duties and beliefs of the national government forever. After the largest breach on national security of the 21st century, the national government responded strongly and swiftly. Under President Bush, the Patriot Act was easily passed through both houses of Congress, and has since then been reauthorized multiple other times (NSA Surveillance). The powers and responsibilities of the National Security Agency were also drastically altered to fit the…

Security Homeland security (HLS) is an expansive enterprise that includes many agencies and departments at all levels of government. As such, it has been defined in many different but similar ways. For example, in their book Understanding Homeland Security, Noftsinger, Newbold, and Wheeler (2007) define homeland security as “a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, minimize the damage, and recover from…