Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier?

by Arbuckle; James V.

• ISBN13: 9780415393706
• ISBN10: 0415393701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is about Civil-Military Relations in Peace Support Operations. The essential themes of this book are: - Neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving modern conflicts; - Joint civil-military efforts are needed, and those efforts must be deliberately planned from the outset of an operation; - These efforts cannot be added on as afterthoughts when all else has failed. The record of our efforts over nearly a decade and a half since the end of the Cold War demonstrates that we are doing badly at creating civil-military partnerships, and that we are not getting better. The issues are neither structural nor organizational, they are cultural. They involve attitudes, beliefs, perceptions - positive and negative, true and false. The solutions will involve changing attitudes, moving beyond prejudices, replacing competition with cooperation. The principal mechanisms for this will be common civil-military training and education.

Author Biography

James V. Arbuckle is a member of the Faculty of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

Table of Contents

PART I Peace in the modern world	1	(28)
1 Preface	3	(2)
2 Introduction	5	(10)
3 Towards a conceptual framework for peace operations	15	(14)
PART II Pride and prejudice: military culture and popular perceptions	29	(54)
4 Introduction	31	(4)
5 The role and influence of cultures	35	(3)
6 Cohesion and continuity: 'the clangour of their shields'	38	(5)
7 A closer look at military organizational culture	43	(6)
8 Culture and change: a barrier or a window?	49	(5)
9 Civil-military cultures in collision: Festina Lente	54	(5)
10 Unit rotations: Les Absents se Trompent	59	(4)
11 The US forces: the military antipodeans	63	(11)
12 Pride and prejudice: you never get a second chance to make a first impression	74	(9)
PART III Sense and sensibility: the military as a partner agency	83	(54)
13 Introduction	85	(1)
14 War and peace: matters of principle	86	(12)
15 The military roles in support of humanitarian operations	98	(4)
16 First-generation peacekeeping: the Age of Consent	102	(7)
17 Second-generation peacekeeping: crossing the Mogadishu	109	(5)
18 Rules of engagement	114	(4)
19 Force structures: always use a sledgehammer to crack a walnut	118	(2)
20 The command and control of joint and combined military operations	120	(4)
21 The Military Staff Committee: reveille, or last post?	124	(3)
22 Reaction forces: 'compulsory and irreproachable idleness'	127	(10)
PART IV Training and education: a part of the main	137	(18)
23 General	139	(1)
24 Training vs. education	140	(2)
25 Training establishments: where and by who?	142	(7)
26 Training for whom?	149	(3)
27 So what?	152	(3)
PART V Conclusion	155	(7)
28 To save succeeding generations...	157	(5)
Notes	162	(19)
Bibliography	181	(8)
Index	189