JIIIM Roles

Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) promotes building collaborative relationships between agencies pursuing similar objectives. In the process, JIIM improves the individuals understanding of the defense environment, thus enhancing their support for security cooperation. According to Tomich (2014), JIIM organizations engage in the security cooperation setting, and the roles and responsibility of each of these agencies contribute significantly to building a holistic tactic in developing defense relationships. The participation of JIIM organizations collaborates with defense teams in synchronizing actions as well as ensuring complementary efforts are taking place to accomplish unity of action and efforts.

In the JIIM environments, interpersonal and integration skills are the most vital determinants of success in the bid to achieve collaboration between different organizations. In that, the success of JIIM usually necessitates voluntary collaboration between the independent organizations that frequently pursue diverse agendas. With respect to the Joint doctrine, JIIM willingly recognizes the essence of unity of effort and coordination amid the army and other different government agencies based in the US in the provision of security (Bilas et al., 2014). Joint doctrine provides guidelines to the US military force with regards to harmonizing, and coordinating efforts towards a mutual goal of defending the country’s interest both locally and globally. The doctrine acknowledges that achieving the strategic goals requires more than military defense as the collaboration between agencies is vital. Harmony building among JIIM organizations results in unity of effort, which in turn creates cohesion of purpose between the agencies and the military (Bilas et al., 2014). Achieving the set strategic objectives of the nation needs operative incorporated action that leads to unity of effort which is achieved through harmonization, collaboration and coordination as promoted by JIIM.

SGM/CSM should understand the roles of JIIM since they are involved in the building of operational relationships between different organizations. SGM/CSMs are high-ranking officers in a unit whose role is to advise the commander on issues relating to the conscripted ranks. Their roles are dependent on the ability to build relationships across different units in the quest to spread the influence of the commander, measure confidence of the force and help during life-threatening events. To be successful, they need to understand the roles of JIIM to empower the force to embrace collaboration and cooperation. In other words, they need to build trust and encourage collaboration as a way of boosting the role of JIIM by mobilizing the units to support to ensure they achieve unity of effort. The technique helps in generating common understanding since crucial information is shared between organizations, commanders, battalions and brigade personnel (Bilas et al., 2014).

Conclusively, SGM/CSMs serve as conduits of outlooks between soldiers and JIIM partners. Through collaboration, they can, therefore, assist in influencing corresponding organizations and developments across battalions and taskforces. Within the operational setting, collaborations between parties are necessary as they determine the performance and confidence of the defense force (Bilas et al., 2014). The ability for SGM/CSMs and JIIM organizations to promote collaboration helps in increasing the overall efficiency of the taskforce in security cooperation.

References

Tomich, D. J. (2014). Increasing JIIM Interoperability in the Security Cooperation Environment. US Army War College.