Interagency and Political-military Dimensions of Peace Operations

Book excerpt: The workshops on Interagency and Political Military Dimensions of Peace Operations explore advanced command relationships and technologies. The workshops are sponsored by the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology (ACT), which has a charter from The Joint Staff to conceptualize and develop Mission Capability Packages (MCPs) that will suppport improved joint and combined command and control for Operations Other than War (OOTW) including coalition peace operations. MCPs are best described as coherent, comprehensive approaches to a particular set of missions and levels of technology that enable effective intergration of the force structure, doctrine, command and control arrangements and the technologies required to accomplish the mission. Widely regarded as an operation that "went right", Haiti offered an opportunity to explore interagency relations in an operation close to home that had high visibility and a greater degree of interagency civilian-military coordination and planning than the other operations examined to date. The Haiti workshop reported here was convened to explore those issues.