Coalitions: Organizational, Political, Command & Control Challenges

Abstract

Coalitions are becoming the standard in military operations, involving different organizations, services and agencies. This implies new and more complex types of interaction, the challenges of which must be situated along different dimensions. This report studies the characteristics of coalitions and discusses their political, organizational, socio-cultural, technological and Command & Control (C2) challenges. The costs and benefits of coalition building, the recent history of coalitions, the properties of military coalitions, and finally, issues faced by coalitions with regard to the transformational context and the advent of network-centric operations are investigated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA636829

Entities

People

  • A. Benaskeur
  • H. Irandoust

Organizations

  • DRDC Valcartier

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Geography
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.