Experimenting for Operations on the Cusps
Aug 2005, Vol. 150, No. 4
By John Wood
As the United States and its coalition partners have shifted towards a more proactive international intervention strategy, their armed forces have been required to play key roles in strategic campaign planning, and to conduct substantial military campaigns before and after the conventional combat phase of the conflict cycle. As a result, Coalition and Alliance forces have had to apply military capabilities across a widening spectrum of activities. Pursuit of desired ‘effects’ has required military forces to co-ordinate strategic campaign planning, and to engage in post-combat peace enforcement, humanitarian assistance and stabilization and reconstruction operations, often in the midst of insurgency, terrorism and criminality. These are 'operations on the cusps'.
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By John Wood
As the United States and its coalition partners have shifted towards a more proactive international intervention strategy, their armed forces have been required to play key roles in strategic campaign planning, and to conduct substantial military campaigns before and after the conventional combat phase of the conflict cycle. As a result, Coalition and Alliance forces have had to apply military capabilities across a widening spectrum of activities. Pursuit of desired ‘effects’ has required military forces to co-ordinate strategic campaign planning, and to engage in post-combat peace enforcement, humanitarian assistance and stabilization and reconstruction operations, often in the midst of insurgency, terrorism and criminality. These are 'operations on the cusps'.
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