Download or read book Shifting State Partnership Program Resources to the Asia-Pacific Region written by Jeffrey C. Dickerson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) has proven itself to be an efficient and economical program for developing partner capacity. The SPP includes a "whole of government" approach to engagement that includes state level military, diplomatic, and economic engagement and partnership with the partnered country to develop its capacity and capabilities. The SPP's original focus was aiding the development of partner capacity in Central and Eastern Europe, facilitating several former Warsaw Pact member countries' entrance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and created lasting partnerships across Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas. Unfortunately, SPP resources are heavily invested in relationships in theaters other than the Asia-Pacific, causing them to be misaligned with the required rebalance to the Asia-Pacific. As a component of the U.S. strategy to rebalance in the Asia-Pacific Region, the U.S should allocate additional SPP resources in order to expand the SPP within U.S. Pacific Command.