Multinational Operations Alliances And International Military Cooperation Past And Future

Center of Military History Publication 70-101- 1.

Center of Military History Publication 70-101- 1.

Since World War II, a key element of America's grand strategy has been its worldwide network of strategic allies and partners. The network has provided the United States an invaluable global presence, enhanced deterrence against adversaries and, when called upon, provided men and materiel to help fight wars. However, following the end of the Cold War, less attention has been paid to America's allies, especially their "hard power" capabilities, despite the United States and its allies going to war more frequently than before. This volume addresses that gap, providing a holistic account of allied hard power and, in turn, the ability - and, indirectly, the willingness - of those same partners to use force independently or in concert with the United States and other allies. Related products: Augmenting our Influence: Alliance Revitalization and Partner Development can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01084-6 Multinational Operations, Alliances, and International Military Cooperation Past and Future is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00472-1 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. XL1, Western Europe; NATO, 1969-1972 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/044-000-02632-5 Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01231-8 International and Foreign Affairs resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs

As the United States and its allies prepare to withdraw most of their military forces from Afghanistan and following the end of the war in Iraq, fundamental questions have arisen over the future of American Landpower. Among them are the role of allies and partners in terms of contributing to the safeguarding of shared global interests, the implications of the Pacific rebalancing for American alliances worldwide, and the role of Landpower in identifying, developing, and maintaining critical alliances, partnerships, and other relationships. To examine these and other questions, as well as to formulate potential solutions to the challenges facing U.S. national security in the coming decade, the U.S. Army War College gathered a panel of experts on alliances and partnerships for the 24th Annual Strategy Conference in Carlisle, PA. Conducted on April 9-11, 2013, the conference explored American Landpower implications associated with an evolving national security strategy. Chaired by the Strategic Studies Institute's Dr. John R. Deni, the panel devoted to alliances and partnerships featured expert presentations based on the papers in this edited volume by Dr. Sean Kay, Dr. Carol Atkinson, and Dr. William Tow. Their analyses provided the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Defense with invaluable strategic assessments and insights. Students and scholars with interest in US national security and building community allies and coalitions with other countries to thwart terrorist threats/activities and implement landpower strategies to grow democracies and peace around the world would be interested in this book as a supplemental reading text for military science, and international diplomacy classes. Related products: A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01158-3 Enabling Others to Win in a Complex World: Maximizing Security Force Assistance Potential in the Regionally Aligned Brigade Combat Team is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01178-8 Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-046-00290-8 Multinational Operations Alliances, and International Military Cooperation Past and Future can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00472-1 An Arab NATO in the Making?: Middle Eastern Military Cooperation Since 2011 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01209-1

This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century. Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing nine carefully selected mission types, the volume presents a comprehensive analysis of key trends and trajectories. Building upon this analysis, the contributors break the trends and parameters down into real and potential tasks and mission types in order to identify concrete implications for military forces in future multinational operations. The context of military intervention in conflicts and crises around the world is rapidly evolving. Western powers’ shrinking ability and desire to intervene makes it pertinent to analyse how the cost of operations can be reduced and, how they can be executed more intelligently in the future. New challenges to international military operations are arising and this book addresses these challenges by focusing on three key areas of change: 1) An increasingly urbanised world; 2) The changing nature of missions; 3) The commercial availability of new technologies. In answering these questions and embracing some of the insights of a growing field of future studies, the volume presents an innovative perspective on future international military operations. This book will be of much interest to students of international intervention, military and strategic studies, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.

The 'Legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the "Pluriverse": the multiplicity of rules that apply to and regulate contemporary multinational missions, and the array of actors involved. These operations are further complicated by changes to the classification of the conflict, and the asymmetry of obligations on participants. Structured into five parts, this work seeks, through the diversity of its authorship, to set out the web of legal regimes applicable to military operations including forces from more than one state. It maps out the ways in which different regimes interact, beginning with the laws of armed conflict and their relation to international humanitarian and human rights norms, and extending through to areas like law of the sea and environmental law. A variety of contributors systematically compile and take stock of the various legal regimes that make up the pluriverse, assessing how these rules interact, exposing norm conflicts, areas of legal uncertainty, or protective loopholes. In this way, they identify and evaluate approaches to better streamline the different applicable legal frameworks with a view to enhancing cooperation and thereby ensuring the long-term success of multinational military operations.