North America is vulnerable to an array of natural disasters and manmade threats, and cooperation with partners and allies will be critical.
The Army’s foundational manual for operations—Field Manual 3-0: Operations—has been updated to recognize a broader and more complex security environment.
The 2018 Army budget includes an almost 16 percent increase for the European Reassurance Initiative, with a goal of increasing U.S. troop presence and expanding partner-building capacity with new members of NATO and with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The increase is part of the overseas contingency operations account in the fiscal 2018 federal budget presented by the Trump administration May 23. The budget requires congressional approval.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter recently told an audience at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., that the nation often overlooks the vital service of soldiers. “Security is like oxygen,” he said. “If you have it, you don’t pay any attention to it.”
The Department of Homeland Security will receive a lot of attention during the 2016 Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in October.
A Homeland Security Pavilion will be part of the exhibit in Hall A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., during the three-day event, and two days of the professional development forum will include events related to the U.S. government’s youngest agency.
