Russia has already defined this as a political rather than a military task. This will presumably cause its own command and control problems. Coalition operations have long been prone to command and control problems. Instead of responding immediately to US calls for assistance, the Pakistani and Malaysian contingents sought clearance from their respective capitals before committing troops. Kosovo has demonstrated the difficulties NATO has in shifting its emphasis from the territorial defence missions, which dominated Cold War planning, to that of expeditionary conflict.
Many countries have yet to reorganise their armies to be able to rapidly deploy to conflict areas.
The past weeks have revealed not only the necessity of developing new political 'doctrine' to balance the rights of sovereign states in intrastate disputes but also for a common military doctrine. Intervention on the scale of KFOR requires states to make available adequate resources despite other military commitments. UK Defence Secretary George Robertson last week announced the UK is withdrawing some 700 troops from Kosovo in order to streamline the command of its forces. The forces to be withdrawn include the headquarters of an armoured brigade, seven helicopters and support staff, two field ambulances and a high velocity missile battery. Finding enough troops trained for peacekeeping is also a problem for Western politicians.