Kosovo Two Years After. Joint Center for Lessons Learned. Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 3, June 2001
Abstract
It has now been two years since the conflict in Kosovo ended and one year since we last focused our Bulletin on Kosovo lessons learned. During that time additional lessons from Operation ALLIED FORCE were identified. In this issue we will focus on the lessons we continue to discover from Kosovo. The first article is a reprint of the executive summary from the Kosovo After-Action Report to Congress, and includes overarching lessons learned from the report. In our second article in this Bulletin, Kosovo Air Operations, we provide an excerpt from a recent Government Accounting Office (GAO) report dealing with the use of attack helicopters in TF HAWK, and some of the interoperability difficulties encountered by the Army. The third article, Wake-up Call in Kosovo, by Dr. Milan Vego, provides specific examples of failures that occurred at the Operational and Strategic levels of warfare. He discusses the lessons learned, then challenges us to study and evaluate them for future conflicts. In Myths of the Air War Over Serbia: Some Lessons Not to Learn, Dr. Grant Hammond dissects the air effort in Kosovo, highlights some of its shortfalls, and challenges commonly accepted conclusions from the war. The fifth article, The Role of C2 Systems During NATO Operation Allied Force, by Capt Scherrer, is interspersed with comments by one of his co-workers, Mr. Hunter Lambert. Mr. Lambert relates several problems and discusses what worked well and what didn't work at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), Vincenza, Italy. The sixth article, The CNN Factor, begins with a lesson learned from the JCLL database dealing with information operations (IO) and the necessity for developing a comprehensive plan for IO employment. Following this report is an article by Anne Plummer called Information Ops Soldiers In Kosovo Try to Solicit Civilian Support. Our final article is part two of the series on Integrating Joint Operations Beyond the FSCL, by LTC Dwayne P. Hall.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA529011
Entities
Organizations
- United States Joint Forces Command