U.S.-CREST
New Military Concepts for Emerging Conflicts
Programs
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Defense & Security Policy
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Transatlantic Coalition Building
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Concept Development & Experimentation
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Programs/
Defence & Security Policy:
Project on National Security Reform
New Military Concepts for Emerging Conflicts
Transition from Stabilization to Reconstruction in a Theater of Operations
Exploratory Guide for Interagency Strategic Planning
Colloquium: Getting Organized for the Sake of Peace- Interagency Management of International Crises
Relations between the United-States and the European Union
U.S. Interagency Coordination
Future Military Coalitions: The Transatlantic Challenge; Implications of a Common European Security and Defense Policy (CESDP) on Future Transatlantic Military Capabilities
New Military Concepts for Emerging Conflicts
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A sociological analysis of the organizational consequences and lessons drawn from recent and on-going missions.
This study is being conducted jointly by U.S.-CREST and the Fondation pour la Recherche Startégique (FRS). It seeks to understand the emergence of new concepts, what contributes to their durability (or lack thereof) and their impact on the conduct of operations.
The following concepts will be studied: network centric warfare; effects based approaches to operations; the comprehensive approach; the imbroglio of irregular warfare, counterinsurgency and stability operations; Provincial Reconstruction Teams and; the "strategic corporal".
The study will examine these concepts based on an analysis framework looking at:
How the concept is being diffused
To what degree has the dissemination of the concept modified its content/aim
To what degree has the concept been accepted & internalized by stakeholders
What was the cause of the innovation
Where the new concept originated from
What the new concept aims to accomplish
What the impact of the concept is (organizationally and on actors in the field)
The study will be completed by June 2010 and will be published by the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales de la Défense (C2SD).