Programs
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Transatlantic Coalition Building
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Concept Development & Experimentation
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Programs/
Transatlantic Coalition Building:
The Evolution of U.S. Joint Doctrine & its Impact on U.S.-French Interoperability
Network Centric Operations
Building a Comprehensive Plan for an Ad Doc Coalition: Enabling Crisis Resolution & a Viable Exit Strategy for Multinational Partners
Quadripartie Working Group on Coalition Military Operations
Building a Comprehensive Plan for an Ad Doc Coalition: Enabling Crisis Resolution & a Viable Exit Strategy for Multinational Partners
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This study, completed in 2004, drew lessons from past operations to identify elements relevant to the development of a coherent political-military plan and to deduct from it an approach to generic planning for coalition operations.
The first part of the study was dedicated to analysis of crises whose exit and conflict termination strategies were chosen either for their successes or for their failures: the examples of Suez, Somalia or Kosovo illustrated the difficulty and reality of the problem. The analyses were undertaken from a national perspective, and took into account the international context in which the events unfolded, as well as the interactions between actors (namely the European Union, the United Nations and NATO) with regards to the support and legitimacy they can bring.
In the second part of the study, U.S.-CREST developed a guide for establishing a comprehensive political-military plan that takes into account conflict termination from the start.