Political-Military Policy and Planning Team
PM/PPA engages the Department of Defense on global political-military policy issues and supports political-military planning between the Departments of State and Defense. PPA formulates, develops, and directs political-military policy issues to ensure that DoD planning and operations fully consider and are consonant with U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives. Additionally, PM/PPA coordinates foreign policy input into military contingency plans.
- Political-Military Planning and Counterinsurgency Policy
The Office of Plans, Policy, and Analysis (PPA) conducts liaison with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Combatant Commanders, and military services on political-military issues involving strategic planning and foreign policy, including the emergence of counterinsurgency as a civilian strategy and planning construct. PM/PPA hosts, through a Memorandum of Agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence, a Royal Marine officer whose experience in COIN and counterterrorism is of mutual utility to our two governments. Read more about COIN in the U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide.
Donna Hopkins
202-647-0792
Mike Urena
202-736-4054
Tom Cooney
202-647-7031
- Security Sector Policy and Exercises, Experiments, and Wargames
PM/PPA seeks to ensure coordination and cohesion in crosscutting security sector disciplines such as Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR). PPA is the Bureau's liaison with, and provides political-military support to, the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. PPA administers policy and processes concerning State participation in military exercises, experiments and wargames associated with activities other than stabilization and reconstruction. Read more about Security Sector Reform.
Christina Rosati 202-647-3034 Donna Hopkins 202-647-0792
- Strategic Planning
PM/PPA represents PM in State Department strategic planning efforts, including the formulation of the PM Bureau Strategic Plan and related resource requirements. PPA guides the implementation of the performance goal in the Department and USAID Joint Strategic Plan concerning Regional Stability, and contributes to relevant sections of the Department's Congressional Budget Justification and Performance and Accountability Report.
Evan Foster 202-647-0336 Donna Hopkins 202-647-0792
- Piracy
PM coordinates Departmental responses to piracy off the coast Somalia and co-chairs with DoD the interagency Counter-Piracy Steering Group. PM/PPA also leads for the USG our participation in the international Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, a large and growing voluntary assembly of countries working to discourage piracy. Read more about piracy in fact sheet.
David Foran 202-647-7162 Donna Hopkins 202-647-0792
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