Pre-Planning and Post-Conflict CMOC/CIMIC Challenges
Abstract
A review of contemporary civil-military cooperation efforts in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo identifies distinct patterns and lessons learned that emerge despite a wide range of mission complexities. It is critical that the United States and its allies make better use of these lessons learned and insist upon robust pre-deployment coordination between civil-military authorities in order to help define organizational and transitional requirements for a wide-range of conflict termination scenarios. Recent U.S. contingency operations demonstrate a continuing pattern of inadequate predeployment coordination between the U.S. military, other governmental agencies, coalition partners, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Moreover, the planning component for civil-military liaison is often treated with disdain or indifference. Dynamic environmental factors related to a broad range of political, economic, and geographic issues exacerbate the complexities of this coordination but are often overlooked or disregarded during mission analysis. Although the accelerated nature of crisis planning suggests limited opportunities to develop relationships or conduct adequate civilian infrastructure surveys, it remains critical that civil-military liaisons be established to the maximum extent possible and coordination issues be resolved as early as practicable before military deployment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 05, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA421585
Entities
People
- Dean Nilson
- Mark R. Sweeney
- Patrick Hollen
- Thomas Mundell
Organizations
- National Defense University