Making the Mix Work: Coalition C2 Interoperability during Recent Operations

Abstract

This paper analyzes multinational command and control (C2) arrangements since the Second World War with an eye to understanding how such arrangements have been successful. In particular, it considers the development of command relations from developments in the European Theater during the Second World War to modern day crises. Operations DESERT SHIELD/STORM were clearly a watershed. Since 1990 operations in Somalia, and Haiti, and subsequent operations in Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe have taught us much about multinational C2. In some ways were have now rediscovered the tools that worked so well in 1944 and learned to apply them to a wider range of operations and participating nations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA467855

Entities

People

  • John R. Ballard

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Nato
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control