Download or read book Operational Impact of the U S Anti Personnel Land Mine Ban written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 1, 1999, the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty (the Convention on the Prohibition, Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction) went into force. The NCA directed that the Department of Defense have alternatives to anti-personnel land (APL) mines in place so that by the year 2006 we end the use of all APL mines. It is unlikely alternative new technologies will be fully fielded by this date. This paper discusses the factors which led the President to direct the elimination of all anti-personnel land mines. The paper argues that the current DoD-wide assumption that the U.S. will retain self-destructing anti-personnel land mines in its arsenal is incorrect and presents operational implications of an APL ban without fielded alternatives.
Download or read book Not Without Risk Operational Analysis of a Landmine Ban written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, U.S. forces have gained considerable experience in the employment of landmines in war and operations other than war. Landmines are integrated into the tactics, techniques and procedures trained by the armed services. Now, because of the indiscriminate killing and maiming effects of these weapons, policy makers are committed to a global ban on most categories of antipersonnel landmines. A debate has developed in the professional and academic journals over the utility of landmines in military operations from one perspective versus the necessity of a landmine ban for humanitarian reasons from the other. Much of the available literature examining the impact of a landmine ban fails to analyze the issue from an operational perspective. This study will review the available literature but attempt to maintain an operational focus by consistently returning to the operational link among ends, ways, means and risk. Based on an analysis considering ends, ways, means, and risk; the operational commander can logically determine how to respond to a total ban on anti-personnel landmines and, in the process, identify the associated risk. The key to successfully reconciling the tactical and strategic perspectives resides at the operational level of war, because it is at the operational level that available military means are applied to achieve strategic ends. While an operational analysis of the impact of a landmine ban can identify alternative mechanisms, none of these alternatives are without associated risk. In every case, when landmines are removed from the operational equation some degree of risk must be identified and accepted.
Download or read book Anti Personnel Landmines A Force Multiplier Or an Operational Liability in the 21st Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics reflect that an estimated 100 million anti-personnel landmines (APLs) left from previous wars remain active in at least 70 countries and kill over 800 people every month. At the forefront of the international movement to ban landmines is the 1997 Ottawa Treaty whereby member-states have agreed not to use or transfer APLs or to assist anyone with actions that are prohibited under its provisions. The U.S. has chosen not to sign the Treaty citing its unique responsibilities and security concerns that would be jeopardized under the constraints of the agreement. The focus of this study is at the operational level of war and those aspects of the landmine ban that are most important to a combatant CINC. Specifically, the research examines the various Articles of the Ottawa Treaty and other relevant legislation as they affect U.S. APL policy, identifying current landmine capabilities and alternative technologies, and looking at the significant operational implications for coalition warfare stemming from the Treaty.
Download or read book Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-04-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.
Download or read book Disarming States written by Kenneth R. Rutherford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed history of the global movement to ban anti-personnel landmines (APL), marking the first case of a successful worldwide civil society movement to end the use of an entire category of weapons. In March 1995, Belgium became the first state to pass a domestic anti-personnel landmine ban. In December 1997, 122 states joined Belgium in signing the comprehensive Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Treaty. The movement to ban landmines became a turning point in global politics that continues to influence policy and strategy decisions regarding weapon use today. Disarming States: The International Movement to Ban Landmines describes how non-government organizations (NGOs) brought the landmine issue to international attention by forming the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The author presents new information gleaned from interviews and intensive research conducted around the world. The critical role of mid-size states—such as Austria, Canada, and Switzerland—recruited to back the movement's goals is examined. The book concludes by examining how NGOs affect the international political agenda, especially in seeking legal prohibitions on weapons and changes in states' behaviors.
Download or read book A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste written by David E. Funk and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 25,000 people each year fall victim to the estimated 110 million anti-personnel landmines (APL) scattered throughout the world. Most of the victims are non-combatants in third-world and developing nations. Because most APL are cheap to procure, long-lasting once employed, and totally indiscriminate concerning their choice of victims, the world has begun to vilify these so-called.
Download or read book United States Army Operations Under the Ottawa Convention written by Jon N. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landmines and Human Security written by Richard A. Matthew and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts and evaluates the worldwide effort to ban landmines.
Download or read book United States Army Operations Under the Ottawa Convention written by Jon N. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis explores the impacts of the Ottawa Convention ban of antipersonnel landmines on U.S. Army operations. The Unites States has not signed the convention, but the thesis explores the impacts should the U.S. decide to abide by this international agreement. The thesis looks at the history of landmine warfare, the provisions of the Ottawa Convention, the specific functions of antipersonnel landmines, and the ability of other systems to replace antipersonnel landmines. Based on the inability of other systems to completely replace antipersonnel landmines, this thesis draws on other studies to determine the degree of vulnerability U.S. forces would find themselves in operations consistent with the Ottawa Convention."--Abstract
Download or read book Goalie Without a Mask The Effect of the Anti Personnel Land Mine Ban on US Army Countermobility Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines whether the United States' unilateral ban on conventional anti-personnel mines will significantly impair the effectiveness of US Army countermobility operation. Land mines and mine warfare play critical roles in US countermobility doctrine, and the loss of one entire category of mines could constrain the Army's ability to successfully perform countermobility missions. The prospect of such failure is alarming since successful mine warfare has often been the difference between life and death for hard pressed defenders. This monograph attempts to anticipate both the nature and severity of such consequences. The monograph begins by exploring the origins and nature of the anti-personnel mine ban. It does this by tracing the history of mines and mine warfare, and the global problems that this history has created. Next, the paper covers the current US inventory of anti-personnel mines to determine which mines (and capabilities) the ban eliminates. The monograph then examines the tasks that land mines serve under countermobility doctrine. This section is particularly important since it introduces the concepts that the paper later uses in the analysis. The monograph completes its fact gathering focus with a treatment of the countermine measures available to modem armies. Once the background knowledge set is complete, the monograph turns to analyzing the ban's effects. The monograph's analysis portion begins with a brief discussion of the Second Battle of El Alamein. The monograph uses this action as its historical laboratory because land mines played a central role in the battle, but very few of the mines (only three percent) were of the anti-personnel variety. For this (and other) reasons therefore, Alamein approximates battle under the ban.
Download or read book A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste written by David E. Funk and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 25,000 people each year fall victim to the estimated 110 million anti-personnel landmines (APL) scattered throughout the world. Most of the victims are non-combatants in third-world and developing nations. Because most APL are cheap to procure, long-lasting once employed, and totally indiscriminate concerning their choice of victims, the world has begun to vilify these so-called.
Download or read book Goalie Without a Mask written by Daniel P. Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Losing Anti Personnel Landmines An Economy of Force written by David Ottignon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1997 Ottawa Conference recently banned anti-personnel landmines (APLM) and created international pressure for non-signatories such as the United States, to abide by its mandate. This paper will address the operational need for landmines. It examines the role of landmines as an economy of force in operational maneuver and flexibility, as well as their affects on the operational factors of war. It will explore the impact of eliminating landmines on the Korean peninsula and offer alternatives to the Operational Commander. The paper will argue that the elimination of landmines, without a proven and cost efficient alternative to APLM, creates a substantial capability gap and ignores the increased risk to U.S. Forces. Finally, it will briefly examine future systems under exploration to replace APLM that might offer the Operational Commander an alternative capability.
Download or read book Alternatives for Landmine Detection written by Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the rate that government and nongovernmental organizations are clearing existing landmines, it will take 450-500 years to rid the world of them. Concerned about the slow pace of demining, the Office of Science and Technology asked RAND to assess potential innovative technologies being explored and to project what funding would be required to foster the development of the more promising ones. The authors of this report suggest that the federal government undertake a research and development effort to develop a multisensor mine detection system over the next five to eight years.
Download or read book Still Killing written by Alex Vines and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Momentum for a ban
Download or read book Landmines written by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10. The future of Landmines
Download or read book The History of Landmines written by Mike Croll and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
