Civilians and Soldiers
Subtitle: Achieving Better Coordination
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: December 25, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780833026910
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Warfare & Defence; Sociology; International cooperation; Technology & Industrial Arts; Research; Military Science; Reference / Research; Civil-military relations; Armed Forces; Civic action; United States
First sentence: This chapter outlines background, purpose of the project, assumptions, approach, and organization of the report.
Description: Since 1989, the United States has embarked on numerous complex contingency operations overseas--especially in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia--requiring a high degree of coordination between the civilian and military sides of the operations. What has the U.S. government learned and failed to learn from its experience? The author examines the erratic performance of the U.S. in these contingencies and looks at several working models of the interagency process and ways to improve communication between civilian and military communities. After analyzing the problems of the past, the report offers recommendations to decisionmakers in the Executive Branch to improve chances of success in future complex contingency operations through more coherent U.S. policy and strategy.