Download or read book Coalition Operations Planning Considerations for the Good and the Bad written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future military operations are likewise very likely to include allies, long term partners or ad hoc coalitions, and this can be either a boon or a curse to the operational commander who must take into account political and other considerations when conducting operational planning. In some regards, having multinational partners proves beneficial to operations, but, at other times, problems with command and control, political sensitivities and other issues will cause the commander to question the value of having a partner at all. Integrating foreign partners into the operation can be very complex and requires much understanding, patience and diplomatic skill on the part of the commander and his staff; and many of the problems faced by operational commanders could be overcome early on, during the planning stages, if the staff and commander keep in mind certain realities concerning the ups and downs of coalition operations. Through the course of this paper, I hope to explore some of the complexities of working with multinational partners and show some benefits as well as limitations. I will open with a short discussion on multinational operations, and also on alliances, and ad hoc coalitions, defining their roles and formative characteristics. From there, I intend to break off into discussions on some specific areas of the principles of war and operational functions where coalition partners come into play and some planning considerations the operational commander should take into account when determining how he can best use them (partners) to his advantage, or mitigate their limitations. I will close with an attempt to gauge the overall worth of partnerships to the operational commander and offer an opinion as to how to start to consider the use of coalition partners.

Download or read book Problems and Solutions in Future Coalition Operations written by Thomas J. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, the United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) undertakes a conference-study program on a matter of strategic significance, with several objectives. The topic relates to USAREUR's mission; anticipates future requirements; contributes toward building democratic norms within the militaries of emerging democracies; and serves to inform the USAREUR staff, higher headquarters and other U.S. Government agencies of active measures to improve current practices. In 1996, USAREUR undertook to study "Problems and Solutions in Future Coalition Operations." That topic was germane not only because of the U.S. Government's participation in several current coalitions, but also because USAREUR will continue to be in the vanguard, participating in a wide variety of multinational operations. While coalitions may be a way of life for most militaries, changes in the geostrategic environment over the past several years have created new challenges and opport- unities for U.S. participation. Protecting the Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War, supporting humanitarian relief operations in Rwanda, deploying a preventive diplomacy force to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to guard against a spillover of the Balkan conflict, and providing forces to support the implementation of the Dayton Accords for Bosnia have tested the United States' ability to work with new partners, in support of new missions, in unfamiliar parts of the world. There are important similarities and differences between these new coalition operations, and large military operations and bygone NATO plans for operations in Europe against the Warsaw Pact. In fact, some of the former Warsaw Pact states are now partners in coalitions with the United States Other countries from Africa and Asia Minor have participated as well.

Download or read book Coalition Command and Control written by Martha E. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coalition Command and Control written by Martha E. Maurer and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future security environment will be more complex as more regional powers emerge, each with its own expectation of independent decisionmaking. U. S. strategy, as presented in the National Military Strategy (1992) and other statements, addresses a continuing requirement to be ready for unilateral action. It also outlines the expectation that the United States will continue to lead in efforts supporting global peace and security using forward presence, crisis response, and multinational operations. After the Gulf War, some political-military analysts and national leaders saw ad hoc coalitions as the wave of the future. Others, seeing the difficulties of planning for an ad hoc operation, disagreed and instead supported a decrease in U. S. security involvement with other nations. World events subsequently showed the necessity of being prepared to work with allies not part of established regional security arrangements. Although not a first choice, the possibility of ad hoc coalition operations is now recognized as an option. This paper, originally published in 1994 by The Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology of the National Defense University, examines the many factors that influence command and control of coalition operations. The factors considered include the nature of a coalition itself, generally transitory. Previous coalition operations were created out of necessity. Such coalitions generally ended as soon as their immediate purpose was completed, although some evolved to become more structured or permanent alliances.

Download or read book Support for the Process of Planning Coalition Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The response to international crises typically involves extensive interaction and coordinated activities among multinational coalitions of military and civilian organizations. This interaction is often complicated, however, by cultural differences among coalition partners, creating roadblocks to the successful execution of coalition operations. Because the U.S. military often takes the lead role in coalition operations, mission success often depends upon the ability of U.S. military personnel to effectively plan and coordinate with military and nonmilitary personnel from diverse cultures. Unfortunately, there are few information systems in place to support effective coalition planning and coordination, leaving these important missions vulnerable to embarrassing misunderstandings and costly errors. To facilitate close cooperation among coalition partners, the Decision Support Systems for Coalition Operations (DSSCO) research and development project is working on providing information management and planning support tools. DSSCO is taking a user-centered design approach in which the decision support tools are based on key factors that make coalition operations successful and on a thorough understanding of the cognitive processes used by experienced crisis action planners. These tools support information presentation, knowledge management, distributed cognition, and modeling and simulation. In this paper, the features and functions of these tools will be discussed, and plans for further development will be summarized.

Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941 1942 1943 1944 written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coalition Warfare written by Robyn Read and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Cold War, the world political environment has been, and continues to be, in constant change with evolving formats and cause-effect relationships. But "change," in and of itself, is not a new phenomenon. More accurately for today, it is the rate of change and the lack of accurate lead indicators (i.e., the unpredictability) that complicate the coalition picture in the 21st Century. The results are, in general, short agendas with narrowly focused objectives and limited commitments. This paper identifies some of the issues associated with coalition building and coordination and reports on two effective but distinct methods of meeting national requirements in this arena. Originally, the intent was to compare the US Central Command's Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) in Tampa with the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) approach in US Pacific Command's area of operation but a direct comparison was abandoned because these are simply unlike entities. Additionally, the report avoids repeating, at least in detail, the information already in print or available from US Central Command and US Pacific Command. There is, however, much to discuss regarding how the two commands are approaching similar problems in dissimilar environments.

Download or read book Military Ethics and Leadership written by Peter H.J. Olsthoorn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books and articles still treat leadership and ethics as related though separate phenomena. This edited volume is an exception to that rule, and explicitly treats leadership and ethics as a single domain. Clearly, ethics is an aspect of leadership, and not a distinct approach that exists alongside other approaches to leadership. This holds especially true for the for the military, as it is one of the few organizations that can legitimately use violence. Military leaders have to deal with personnel who have either used or experienced violence. This intertwinement of leadership and violence separates military leadership from leadership in other professions. Even in a time that leadership is increasingly questioned, it is still good leadership that keeps soldiers from crossing the thin line between legitimate force and excessive violence

Download or read book Building Partner Capabilities for Coalition Operations written by Jennifer D. P. Moroney and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ongoing operations and emerging mission requirements place a heavy burden on Army resources, resulting in capability gaps that the Army is unable to fill by itself. One solution is to build the appropriate capabilities in allies and partner armies through focused security cooperation. To do this, Army planners need a more comprehensive understanding of the capability gaps and a process for matching those gaps with candidate partner armies.

Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Course of Action Analysis for Coalition Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prototype Decision Support System for Coalition Operations (DSCCO) is being developed by SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego to support the Operations Planning Team (OPT) of the Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command. The goal of DSCCO is to apply and integrate organizational design concepts and decision support technologies in planning and executing multi-national coalition operations. Within DSSCO, there is a module based on CAESAR II focused on the analysis of alternative Courses of Action (COAs). The capabilities of DSSCO and the CAESAR II / COA module were demonstrated in November 2000 at USCINCPAC. Subject matter experts (SMEs) collaborated in a distributed manner in developing the structure (the relationships between causes and effects) and the data of an Influence Net model representing a key outcome in a hypothetical military operation other than war (MOOTW) in a South Pacific scenario. The influence net was implemented in the CAESAR II / COA module, and sensitivity analysis was used to determine which actions could contribute substantially in achieving the desired effects. Those selected actions formed the basis for the construction of COAs, namely, time-phased sequences of these events. The CAESAR II / COA module was used to illustrate the impact of time-coordinated actions of the coalition partners to the decision-makers.

Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1943 1944 written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Problems and Solutions in Future Coalition Operations written by Thomas J. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects based Coalition Operations Belief Framing and Mechanism written by Maris McCrabb and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition operations over the past decade exhibit a propensity towards collegial decision-making even in the presence of formal, normally hierarchical, decision-making apparatus. Meanwhile, the U.S. military, especially the U.S. Air Force, is adopting effects-based operations (EBO) as a method of planning, executing, and assessing military operations that achieves desired effects that attain strategic objectives. EBO forces decision makers to look at outcomes and their explanations more so than on actions taken. Hence, an EBO approach significantly affects decision-making. Both these requirements, collegial decision making and EBO, affect supporting knowledge systems. This paper explores all these implications. Following a short explanation of the problem, the second section describes EBO. The third section contrasts collegial decision-making models with traditional hierarchical decision-making models. This draws largely from work done for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Human Effectiveness Directorate (AFRL/HE). Section 4 presents research on a situation-aware, recognition-primed, variable risk-propensity model of collegial decision-making based in an EBO context. Section 5 discusses the implications of that model and EBO on knowledge base design requirements. Section 6 concludes the paper and offers some areas for future research.

Download or read book Building Effective Coalitions written by Gerald M. Croan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Knowledge Based Tool for Planning of Military Operations The Coalition Perspective written by Larry Ground and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use of knowledge-based planning tools can help alleviate the challenges of planning a military operation in a coalition environment. We explore these challenges and potential contributions of knowledge-based tools using as an example the CADET system, a knowledge-based tool capable of producing automatically (or with human guidance) battle plans with realistic degree of detail and complexity. In ongoing experiments, it compared favorably with human planners. Interleaved planning, scheduling, routing, attrition and consumption processes comprise the computational approach of this tool. From the coalition operations perspective, such tools offer an important aid in rapid synchronization of assets and actions of heterogeneous assets belonging to multiple organizations, potentially with distinct doctrine and rules of engagement. In this paper, we discuss the functionality of the tool, provide a brief overview of the technical approach and experimental results, and outline the potential value of such tools for coalition operations.