CURRENT MILESTONES IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS
CURRENT MILESTONES IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Expeditionary operations focus on two main challenges, which are of central importance on the Alliance agenda, both being essentially political in nature. The first challenge, as the author emphasises, is to acquire forces that are available, deployable and sustainable on a joint and multinational basis. This has an important military component, yet, in the end, it represents a political engagement, which makes it possible for these operations to materialise. Moreover, it is necessary to maintain public support for the Alliance effort made in order to complete these operations, which take place a long distance from home. Thus, we must deal with an international security environment, which is a system of more complex systems – nations, groups, organisations, persons etc. These systems interact continuously, thus changing and evolving together in many ways, but they are never entirely predictable.

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