Multinational Leadership Advantages And Disadvantages

“If you want to go quickly, go alone if you want to go far, go together.”

- An African proverb

Multinational operations are operations conducted by forces of two or more nations, usually undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance. There are numerous challenges, but tremendous opportunities to the US Geographical Combatant Commander (GCC) or Joint Task Force Commander (JTFC) who will exercise military power as a member of a multinational alliance or coalition, with interagency and intergovernmental partners. Future military engagement will be in the multinational environment because of the strength of both opposing forces depend on alliance and collation. The role of military leadership is to influence other to fulfill the mission

GCC/JTFC have the opportunity to integrate elements of national power of all allies and collation partners to generate greater combat power. Physical presence and the personal relation are very much essential to achieve synergy. Synergy must start to achieve from the environmental shaping phase. A continuous presence builds strong relationships and trust that produces greater actionable intelligence, commitments for basing and infrastructure, improved sustainment lay down, and coalition force commitments. Improvements are possible to create more synergy with the interagency. Security cooperation program is the starting points for the building the collation. Therefore GCC must shape their AOR through the coordinated security cooperation program during the peacetime to achieve better

NATO is always on the top priorities of the US, but significant of Europe is declining compared with the Asian and African nations. In the changing scenario, GCC must prepare for robust shaping phase of operation with new partners.

• Establishment of ad hoc organization for to develop warfighting modalities. In the absence of multinational defense pacts in their respective AOR, GCC should create a multinational ad hoc organization (like pseudo-NATO type) in the respective AOR to develop doctrine, SOPs, ROEs, and staff system. It will also help to promote cultural awareness and language flow among collation partners.

• Every GCC must explore the opportunity to conduct multinational training and exercise as a method of understanding potential operational issues, strength, and weakness and likely area of improvement of respective partner countries, as a part of pre-conflict shaping. Similarly, multinational planning exercises would be a better way to identify emerging crises and better ways to handle such situations.

• Include allies and collation partners from the pre-conflict shaping phase. Shaping the environment or must be the start points of the MNF operation. Pre-conflict shaping will determine the success and failure of future