Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms : From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation by
The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times of crisis are largely similar. This book is a comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanisms.
Deployment of Rapid-Reaction Forces
Deployable Forces (Air) Handbook
This handbook provides a brief background on Deployable Forces (Air). It also reviews the Operational Plan development, force activation, and deployment processes. Finally, the handbook outlines command and control principles, communication and information system (CIS) requirements, ground-based air defence (GBAD), logistics support, force protection, movements, training and evaluation.
Tweaking NATO : The Case for Integrated Multinational Divisions by
US Army War College. Strategic Studies Institute (US)
'In this monograph, the author examines NATO's enduring deficiencies and their detrimental effect on military capabilities. The decade following the end of the Cold War has revealed a far different world than envisioned. As the United States ruefully discovered, the reduced threat did not diminish security obligations. NATO's European members hoped otherwise and paid insufficient attention to military capabilities. NATO enlargement exacerbates the existing problems. NATO's integrated military structure does not easily accommodate the new members, which still suffer from the effects of the Soviet system. Simply put, their nascent market economies and unsophisticated militaries represent great obstacles to NATO interoperability. The author explores the establishment of integrated multinational divisions as a solution to NATO's salient problems. The co-stationing of Allied units in existing casernes and under a host division headquarters certainly provides opportunities worth discussing. Streamlining the Alliance to a single active corps of ten divisions and the establishment of a robust logistical supply group permits greater utility of limited manpower and equipment. Under this structure, all Alliance members can focus modernization on select units and become active participants in all NATO operations.