Assignment:
Assignment Instructions
The national security policy recommendation will build on the background assessment from Writing Assignment 1 (but not recopy or repeat it).
Write a policy recommendation for a relevant national security issue using the DIMEFIL framework for a specific national security issue you selected from among a list of options provided in Assignment 1 and based upon the same main national security policy background you prepared for the same issue.
The intent is that your policy recommendation contains specific counters to the capabilities you identified in your first writing assignment using the PMESII framework.
Your policy recommendation must include the following:
• Identification and definition of the important issues related to the specific national security issue you selected using the DIMEFIL framework
• A brief review of the opposing capabilities you identified using the PMESII framework
• At least two distinct policy options that are conceptualizations of creative alternative solutions to use US national DIMEFIL capabilities to offset/counter enemy PMESII capabilities.
• Assessments of the advantages and disadvantages of each policy option using the DIMEFIL and PMESII frameworks to compare how well each uses US national DIMEFIL capabilities offset/counter enemy PMESII capabilities.
• Anticipation of reactions and objections from the US national perspective to each policy option.
• Your specific policy recommendation from among the options presented and assessed based upon the DIMEFIL-PMESII comparison and anticipated reactions and objections (NOT a hybrid option from among the options presented).
• Refer to the PMESII & DIMEFIL Primer to ensure you address all relevant aspects of the DIMEFIL framework.
• Your background assessment should be at least 12 pages of text (not including the Title Page or the Bibliography.
o ). This means a roughly one-page assessment of each DIMEFIL element (~ 7 pages),
o two-page descriptions of policy options and DIMEFIL-PMESII comparisons (~4-6 pages),
o plus an introduction and a policy recommendation (~ 2 pages).
• Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
• Use the Turabian Style as the citation and reference style for this assignment.
• Supported by at least four credible scholarly sources (i.e., books, peer reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc., and NOT Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources).