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The Strategic Policy Forum (SPF) hosts a series of crisis simulations for Members of Congress and senior Executive Branch officials that provide a unique opportunity for open and frank discussion of pressing national and homeland security issues. These exercises are an important part of the national security process and provide bipartisan, not-for attribution, Executive- Legislative dialogue.

 

 

  RECENT EXERCISE - Northern Nexus

Considering geopolitics in the Arctic and its effect on U.S. national security interests   

        

MARCH 3, 2010 

Exercise Northern Nexus considered the strategic situation in the Arctic and its effect on U.S. national security interests. A Member of Congress and senior Executive Branch officials worked collaboratively as advisors to the President, established priorities, identified policy options, and developed actionable recommendations in response to exercise scenarios. These scenarios were intended to provide insight into the complexity of Polar issues in order to develop a set of critical observations and recommendations.

Participants considered:

1) the strategic challenges facing the U.S. and other Arctic states and U.S. strategies that might respond to those challenges

2) U.S. interests in the region and how they coincide or conflict with those of other Arctic actors

3) the implications of uneven access to the Arctic

4) the challenges of Arctic governance.

 

RECENT EXERCISE - Beyond the Border

FOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFF

 A US-Mexico Exercise on Illicit Trafficking and Cross Border Violence

 

 

MARCH 8, 2010

This exercise examined the process of decision-making at the strategic level in the context of crises involving complex transnational, national, and homeland security issues.

Participants were asked to:

1. ) Explore the interplay between foreign policy and homeland security interests along the U.S. - Mexican border.

2.) Examine mutual security issues from U.S. and Mexican perspectives and their respective roles in countering cross-border violence.

3.) Consider the impact of interagency dynamics on national-level decision making processes. 



 
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