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Military Operational Challenges

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In present contemporary operation environment (COE), military actions alone is not the sole guarantee for dealing with security challenges. Today’s conflicts are characterized by complex and interdependent issues which range from traditional war-fighting to disaster relief missions, peace keeping and enforcing operations and, humanitarian assistance. This makes management by a single organization or agency whether government or non-governmental difficult. The “internationalization of military life” has thus confronted military personals to challenges which are no longer limited to combat operations but involve social, ethnic, religious and ideological dimensions requiring winning hearts and minds. Operations by today’s armed forces cannot …show more content…

However, there still lacks efficient coordination and collaboration amongst the various actors which results in poor success rate in majority of Joint Interagency Multinational (JIM) crises management. The reason for this is that while multi-national, inter and intra agency cooperation on one hand create opportunities for better understanding each other and an efficient working environment. On the other hand, however, such operations also leads to inter and intra organizational rivalry, resource completion and duplication of effort which prevent the desired outcome. This essay will therefore discuss the challenges and strategies for joint multi-disciplinary operations. The essay will first provide background of relationship between different agencies and organizations or simply inter-organizationalism from theoretical perspective. Subsequently, various barriers to effective coordination and collaboration will be discussed. In the end the strategies which could be used to overcome these barriers will be elaborated …show more content…

Although the civilian organizations need military protection while working in hostile environment. Nevertheless, they would not want themselves to be seen too close to military as this creates misunderstanding in local population and may affects their impartiality. (8) The military of the other hand in confronted with the dilemma of sharing operational information with other agencies which may jeopardize their mission. An example of this would be information regarding an impending attack in an area to allow the civilian agencies to take necessary safeguards. However, if this information is leaked by the civilian agencies the operations can be

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