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1. Summarize what the 3D Planning Guide is designed to accomplish and why it was important to develop it. 2. While the 3D organizations seek to promote U.S. national security, what distinguishes each organization’s perspectives and approaches? 3. What are the differences in policy and strategy-oriented planning and resource-oriented planning? 4. What series of recommendations did the 2010 QDDR set forth to elevate and improve strategic planning, and how were they implemented? 5. What is the highest-level strategic framework for State and USAID? 6. What does the Joint Regional Strategy (JRS) identify and provide for bureaus and missions? 7. Understanding the Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) may prove beneficial if you are trying to negotiate with an embassy for getting an element into a country. What key things from the ICS would you want to know before a meeting with embassy personnel and why? 8. Briefly describe the USAID's Program Cycle. 9. What are the three phases of the development process for the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS)? Give highlights for each phase and the approval process. 10. How does the logical framework complement the results framework that is developed through the CDCS? 11. Explain the purposes of the Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF) and why the GEF may be important to Diplomacy and Development? 12. Explain the purpose of campaign plans, their functions, and the importance of strategic end states in planning. 13. What is the basic function of a country team, and how is it part of 3D planning? 14. Compare the Joint Strategic Plan (JSP) and the Guidance for the Employment of the Force (GEF) and submit at least two similarities. 15. Compare the Joint Regional Strategy and the Theater Campaign Plan and submit at least two similarities. 16. There are eight differences in organizational priorities that result in critical differences in planning, highlighted starting on page 42. Choose one of these differences and relate it to a situation from your experience. How could that difference been eased given the information from this document?                                                                                              

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