UNPROFOR's Effectiveness in Bosnia: Campaign Planning and Peacekeeping.
Abstract
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina under LTG Rose's leadership from January 1994 to January 1995. It examines in detail, Bosnia-Herzegovina Command's (BHC) plan to accomplish its mandated mission and the strategic goals necessary to achieve UNPROFOR's desired endstate. BHC effectively protected the six UN-declared safe areas against Bosnian Serb offensives during this time period. It also effectively implemented numerous cease-fire agreements between the warring factions and began the process of restoring utilities and services to Sarajevo and central Bosnia. This study concludes that BHC operations were effective in 1994 and that peacekeepers executed their mandated military mission, and accomplished their campaign plan's strategic goals, despite not achieving the UN's ultimate objective of a negotiated peace settlement. This paper also concludes that campaign planning is at least as important to the success of peacekeeping operations as it is to theater combat operations. BHC's use of a campaign plan resulted in a significant improvement for UN operations in Bosnia.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 07, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA313001
Entities
People
- Michael J. Fallon
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College