Similar but far more wide-ranging adaptations are called for if the United States is to deal effectively with threats to national security across the entirety of the competition spectrum. The above proposal to create organizations in which centralized funding accompanies overarching authority is the logical—if far more ambitious—next bite of the elephant. The ultimate step of facilitating more effective cooperation by multinational and other inter-organizational partners can follow thereafter. In the interim, the harmony of future campaigns would be far better served by a single, capable conductor.

Dr. Russell W. Glenn is Director, Plans and Policy for the U.S. Army's TRADOC G2. He recently joined the G2 from the faculty of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. His most recent book, Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Post-Colonial Conflict, was published in April 2015. He is author/editor of Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command, forthcoming in 2019 as part of the Association of the United States Army book program.

Mr. Ian M. Sullivan is the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, ISR and Futures at the U.S. Army's TRADOC G2. He is a career civilian intelligence officer who has previously served with the Office of Naval Intelligence, U.S. Army Europe, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) at the National Counterterrorism Center. Mr. Sullivan has been a senior executive since 2013, when he was promoted into the ODNI's Senior National Intelligence Service and currently is a Defense Intelligence Senior Level officer. He has authored or co-authored several articles dating back to 2005 and recently was part of podcast for the Modern War Institute at West Point dealing with changing character of future warfare.

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