U.S. government institutions tasked with strategic communications have lacked the leadership and resources necessary to do their job and have operated with virtually no inter agency coordination.
U.S. government institutions tasked with strategic communicationshave lacked the leadership and resources necessary to do their joband have operated with virtually no interagency coordination.Congress and the President should create an institutional frameworkand strategy that includes a new U.S. Agency for StrategicCommunications, substantial reforms of the Department of State, andgreater utilization of the Pentagon's combatant commands.