Lessons from a Small Country: Managing Interagency Cooperation in Suriname
Abstract
Interagency coordination is a complicated business, and many observers of the process perceive particular structural difficulties in coordination between Combatant Commanders and Embassies. A case study of interagency cooperation in Suriname, however, suggests that existing institutional arrangements between diplomatic and military institutions provide appropriate mechanisms for implementing the inherently interagency, and even multinational, non-crisis interventions in areas such as law enforcement, counter-narcotics, and issues in civil-military relations supportive of such operations. The Suriname case, in pointing to areas of advantage for coordination, generates suggestions for features Combatant Commanders should recall and replicate in devising and implementing similar elements of theater strategy elsewhere.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 18, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA425927
Entities
People
- Mary Beth Leonard
Organizations
- Naval War College