Comments on: Is the post-9/11 moment on military intervention now over? http://www.globaldashboard.org/2010/07/21/post-911-military-interventions/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Holtom http://www.globaldashboard.org/2010/07/21/post-911-military-interventions/comment-page-1/#comment-27634 Chris Holtom Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:23:10 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=14708#comment-27634 Alex, "beefing up" AU in Darfur with C2 sounds like sense but the delivery has been less than the promise - ask Gen Martin Luther Agwai. The rouble with C2 is that there has to be a communications infrastructure (tactical radios and strategic communications + bandwidth), a will to share information, a structureed process to elicit information needs and to collect it and some repository to collate and fuse it. That is something most western armies are weak at. I doubt their "beefing up" will do much for the AU because essential parts will be missing. On the same theme, now that Iraq operations have changed their character and are to be led by diplomats (President Obama today 2 Aug) I fear an outcome will be a greater lack of visibility as to who is doing what, why, what the effect is and any coherence to the delivery of development support without a well structured capability to monitor, advise, decide and deliver that can share multi source information. Alex, "beefing up" AU in Darfur with C2 sounds like sense but the delivery has been less than the promise – ask Gen Martin Luther Agwai. The rouble with C2 is that there has to be a communications infrastructure (tactical radios and strategic communications + bandwidth), a will to share information, a structureed process to elicit information needs and to collect it and some repository to collate and fuse it. That is something most western armies are weak at. I doubt their "beefing up" will do much for the AU because essential parts will be missing.

On the same theme, now that Iraq operations have changed their character and are to be led by diplomats (President Obama today 2 Aug) I fear an outcome will be a greater lack of visibility as to who is doing what, why, what the effect is and any coherence to the delivery of development support without a well structured capability to monitor, advise, decide and deliver that can share multi source information.

]]> By: Richard Gowan http://www.globaldashboard.org/2010/07/21/post-911-military-interventions/comment-page-1/#comment-26727 Richard Gowan Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:31:33 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=14708#comment-26727 Some of us have been saying this for years! Well, something like it: <a href="http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_europe_retreats/" target="_blank">http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_eur...</a> <a href="http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_esharp_afghanistan/" target="_blank">http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_esh...</a> Some of us have been saying this for years! Well, something like it:
http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_eur…
http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_gowan_esh…

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