Operation Unified Response: A Case Study of the Military's Role in Foreign Disaster Relief Operations

Abstract

There are important lessons about the military's role in disaster relief efforts to be learned from Operation UNIFIED RESPONSE despite America's long history of responding to natural disasters around the world. Among these are the areas where the Department of Defense can best support the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (through the Department of State), which has the authority and responsibility to lead. the United States' foreign disaster relief efforts. The size, training, and specialized equipment of the Department of Defense make it uniquely suited to focus on certain parts of the initial response effort; specifically expeditionary emergency medicine, vertical lift (for transportation/evacuation, logistics, search and rescue, and command and control), command and control communications, and logistics,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 2011
Accession Number
ADA600734

Entities

People

  • Tucker D. Hughes

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Governments
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Logistics
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Natural Disasters
  • United States Government
  • United States Southern Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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