They are unlikely to include the destruction of major forces or the creation of dangerous situations in which military force will be continually required to ensure the peace. The first three of these principles are closely interrelated. Unity of Purpose is created and maintained by adopting Consensus Planning . At the same time, Simplicity is essential both to ensure that consensus can be built and to make it easy to maintain the clear objectives and procedures on which effective Unity of Purpose depends. In many cases these burdens will fall on US forces.
Simplicity is the only principle that survives from the original list.
In the context of coalition peace operations, however, its connotation shifts to both keeping the set of military plans simple and appropriate for the forces assigned and ensuring that directives are clear and perceived correctly by all the elements of the peacekeeping force and the other agencies and organizations who are supporting the peace effort or whose activities will be impacted by them. The other two principles are derived primarily from the nature of peace operations and the environments in which they are undertaken. The need for Adaptive Control is driven by the essentially passive and reactive nature of peace operations. It refers to understanding the situation well enough to specify the range of possible futures that can evolve, collecting and assimilating the information necessary to recognize which of those futures is emerging, and taking timely action to influence the course of events such that the mission or objective is achieved. This also helps to keep plans simple and to allow consensus planning rather than reactive, ad hoc planning in a time-stressed environment.