The IFOR/SFOR experience
Subtitle: lessons learned by PFP partners
By: by Jeffrey Simon
Contributors: National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Series: Strategic forum -- no. 120
Publisher: National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Subjects: IFOR (Organization); North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Europe -- Military relations
Other titles: IFOR SFOR experience
Description: Among the Partnership for Peace states that participated in the Implementation and Stabilization Forces in the Balkans, the experiences of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania provide a rich summary of the collective lessons learned through these operations. Each of these four states: experienced strains and distortions in their defense budgets found it difficult to stand up their battalions and concluded that it would be necessary to establish pre-standing units for future peace support operations learned that military officers' language training needed to be improved determined that communications equipment and training needed to be changed saw IFOR/SFOR as a laboratory for deepening interoperability with NATO.
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