Strategic planning 12nov13

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS ANDINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

DECISION MAKING MODEL: STRATEGIC PLANNING

Everyday we are involve in making a decision in order to achieve our vision and mission

Making a decision not only occur in organizations but also in a personally that have interest to get what they want

The output of decision making can be an action or an opinion of choice.

One of the element that exist in a decision making is a strategic planning

Decision making model is the process for concluding which decisions need to be made and how to find alternatives for each decision.

Be applied to regional and crisis situations. It is about top-down implementation and

can also be about reinterpreting past and current actions.

Processes of creating that consist of mission, vision to achieve their goal

There are three ways which strategic planning can affect foreign policy: through the plans, the planning and the planners.

Planning is not just limited to plans but also about the patterns of thinking that best match resources and capabilities to achieving the desired policy ends.

In other words, if the planners are thought to be capable and strategically minded, they will be more likely to influence responses to new and unanticipated events.

Decision maker need to identify its strategy, direction and resource to achieve

The challenge for policy planning is the ability of these units to balance planning and operational roles.

The fundamental constraint on policy planning was “the impossibility of having the planning function performed outside of the line of command.

The operating units—the geographical and functional units—will not take interference from any unit outside the line of command.

Monitoring outcome Factor that can influence their strategic

planning Impact of the not having a good strategic

planning lack of objectives (means that does not have a specific set of tasks it is competent in and it has no vision for the future).

Find a solution or role of emotion in making a decision

Ex: Cuba Missile

POSITIVE It brings a systematic, clear and

smooth role for the foreign policy decision making process.

Every decision maker to perform a highly intelligent cooperation in way to establish state foreign policy.

NEGATIVE There are too many interference that

may result misunderstanding for the existence of think tank and NGO.

There may be irrelevant for sometimes in implementing the strategic planning.

Lack of objectives (means that does not have a specific set of tasks it is competent in and it has no vision for the future).

A nuclear exchange occurred President John F. Kennedy and Premier

Krushchev face each other over Cuba To deter a US invasion of Cuba To counter American superiority in nuclear

missile strength, secretly began by placing intermediate-range missile in Cuba

Oct 22: President Kennedy announced on television that a nuclear attack on the US from Cuba would be respond to as an attack from the Soviet Union

Oct, 4 1962:First nuclear warhead arrived in Cuba

Oct, 14 1962: U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and revealed that several missile sites were under construction.

The presence of nuclear missile in Cuba was an unacceptable threat to US national security interest

Emphasized flexibility in the negotiation Controlling the escalation of the Crisis-both

side had several option Careful not to act precipitously Resisted the temptation to strike out at

Castro and Krushchev Designed Executive Committee (ExComm) Ensured that all options, favor or unfavoured

were thoughtfully scrutinized Insist on negotiation rather than unilateral

action

On November 20, 1962, Just over a month after the Cuban Missile crisis began, President John F. Kennedy lifted the naval blockade after hearing that Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev had ordered the Soviet missile bases in Cuba be dismantled within 30 days. Kennedy also agreed to the removal of US missiles from the Soviet border in Turkey.

President John F. Kennedy

Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev

The Challenging Fututre of Strategic Planning in Foreign Policy, Accessed at

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/press/books/1/1/avoidingtriv ia/avoidingtrivia_chapter.pdf on 8 November 2013

Strategic-Planning Process accessed at http://www.sergaygroup.com/Smart- Talk/Strategic-Planning-Process.html on 8 November 2013

Naval Blockade Ended on this Day in 1962, available at http://pdxretro.com/2011/11/naval-blockade-ended-on-this-day-

in-1962/ on 11 November 2013