Standardizing U.S. Military Foreign Disaster Relief with the U.N.

Abstract

The lack of standardized procedures among the U.S. military and other disaster relief agencies results in inefficiencies during foreign disaster relief operations. These inefficiencies normally include breakdowns in information sharing, duplication of effort and delays in providing effective relief across the full spectrum of response forces. The United Nations has recently developed a "Cluster Approach" to international disaster relief which has gained notoriety as an effective method to mitigate many of these inefficiencies. The "Cluster Approach" groups capabilities of disaster relief support into clusters. Donor countries then pledge support in each cluster in order to develop "a coordinated approach to disaster relief that is predictable, accountable to donors and doesn't duplicate the efforts of different organizations." This paper proposes the U.S. should standardize the U.S. military force package utilized for foreign disaster relief. It also proposes that this package is integrated into the U.N. Cluster Approach framework.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 2011
Accession Number
ADA545906

Entities

People

  • Brad A. Bane

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • Governments
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Natural Disasters
  • Standards
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • United States Southern Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.