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Independent Task Force Report
State Department Reform
Cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies Frank C. Carlucci, Chair
Ian J. Brzezinski, Project Coordinator
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Memorandum to the President
Memorandum to the Secretary of State
Additional Views
Task Force Members
Task Force Observers
Appendixes
Bibliography of Reports on State Department Reform Summary of Previous Reports on State Department Reform FOREWORD
The Berlin Wall fell ten years ago, and still the United States is struggling to come to terms with the post–Cold War world. This process of groping with very new realities should not be surprising. It is even understandable, given the complexity of international developments in the world today. But at some point, and soon, the United States must begin gaining some mastery over new international realities, or else pay enormous costs and face quite serious dangers. Essential to coming to terms with the new world is being able to insure that our foreign policy apparatus and people are fully up to the task. And here is the problem: a good portion of the apparatus, especially the Department of State, simply falls short in mission, organization, and skills relative to what is needed to navigate our way sensibly through the new international universe.
America's foreign policy prevailed in the Cold War in large part because of the Department of State. It would be hard to imagine our being successful in this century without a revitalized and strong Department of State and Foreign Service.
Recognizing this, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies sponsored a nonpartisan, Independent Task Force on State Department reform to develop an action plan for George W. Bush and his incoming administration. The action plan is also directed to Bush's secretary of state, Colin Powell. We believe that the Task Force, a highly diverse and highly experienced group chaired by Frank C. Carlucci, has done its job well. Mr. Carlucci is almost uniquely qualified for the challenge with his background as a career foreign service officer, national security adviser, and secretary of defense. Ian J. Brzezinski, a senior staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served most ably as the project coordinator and principal author of the report.
The Task Force's objective was not to reinvent the many constructive findings and recommendations of the plenitude of blue ribbon commissions that have tackled this subject. Rather, its purpose was both to synthesize all the good previous and copious work, and to distill it into a workable and concrete plan of action for the new administration. The heart of the Task Force plan is a 'resources-for-reform' grand bargain between Congress and the president. The president and the secretary of state would pledge themselves to work with Congress for a thoroughgoing and needed reform of the State Department. In return, Congress would commit itself to providing the necessary and substantial additional resources needed to carry out those reforms. The pledge for reforms would provide the president with the leverage to gain support in the Congress for the new resources, and the resources would provide the necessary leverage to bring about the reforms. The Task Force Report demonstrates that one cannot exist without