Contents
Special Introduction
Preface
About the Author
1 Emergency Exercises: Objectives & Purpose
2 Essential Exercise Design Elements & Steps
3 Issues in Exercise Design
4 Exercise Organization & Structure
5 Exercise Control & Management
6 Exercise Evaluation Principles
7 Exercise Evaluation Issues
8 Useful Considerations in Exercise Planning
9 Summing It Up
Appendices
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Evaluation Guides
Appendix C: MSEL Sample
Appendix D: Tackling Tabletop Exercises
Appendix E: Useful Resources
Appendix F: Information Sharing & Message Management
After serving the United States government at the State Department
and other federal agencies over a 35 year career, Dr. McCreight
retired in 2004 and served as a consultant for major homeland
security and national defense contractors. His professional career
includes work as an intelligence analyst. treaty negotiator, arms
control delegate to the UN, counter-terrorism advisor,
political-military affairs analyst and Deputy Director of Global
Scientific Exchanges at State Department. During his service at
State Department he was a senior Soviet military analyst with INR
and specialized in the assessment of nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons programs. Later in his professional career he
performed assignments where he either managed or coordinated
international post-disaster relief and humanitarian operations,
developed peacekeeping policy, promoted global science and
technology cooperation projects and helped design treaty
verification systems.
At the middle of his career he also participated in the design and
coordination of White House nuclear readiness command crisis
exercises during the Reagan administration. During his federal
career he designed, developed and coordinated well over 26 cabinet
level strategic nuclear preparedness exercises, worked on
Presidential Protection and Survivability Programs and directed the
operation of several dozen senior-level military exercises
involving theoretical force-on-force scenarios between the United
States and the Soviet Union. This followed several years of
designing and evaluating unit combat exercises for the U.S.
Army.
McCreight spent 27 years of combined active and reserve military
service concurrently with his civilian work in U.S. Army Special
Operations and has devoted 15 years to teaching graduate school as
an adjunct at Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, and
Virginia Tech Universities in subjects as diverse as disaster and
emergency management, strategic intelligence, nonproliferation
policy, homeland security policies, terrorism analysis,
intelligence analysis, scientific issues and defense policy and
assessing WMD threats. He completed his doctoral degree in Public
Administration in 1989 and remains active in graduate education
programs in emergency and crisis management as well as security
studies and terrorism analysis. He has also written and published
over 29 articles on chemical weapons use, disaster management,
disaster recovery, post-strike attribution, biological weapons
threats to homeland security, crisis management, WMD scenario
development and collegiate educational strategies for developing
future crisis managers for government service. His first edition of
this textbook-Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation was
published in 2011 and became a popular resource in both
undergraduate and graduate schools. He has co-edited and authored a
new textbook on Homeland Defense published by CRC Press in October
2014.
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