The IFOR/SFOR Experience: Lessons Learned by PFP Partners

Abstract

Among the Partnership for Peace states that participated in the Implementation and Stabilization Forces in the Balkans, the experiences of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania provide a rich summary of the collective lessons learned through these operations. Each of these four states: experienced strains and distortions in their defense budgets found it difficult to stand up their battalions and concluded that it would be necessary to establish pre-standing units for future peace support operations learned that military officers' language training needed to be improved determined that communications equipment and training needed to be changed saw IFOR/SFOR as a laboratory for deepening interoperability with NATO.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA394388

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey Simon

Organizations

  • National Defense University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bosnia Herzegovina
  • Command And Control
  • Crisis Management
  • Czech Republic
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • English Language
  • Language
  • Law
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Planning
  • National Security
  • Training
  • War Colleges

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  • International Relations and European Studies
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