A Stronger Partnership: Improving Military Cooperation with Relief Agencies and Allies in Humanitarian Crises: Improving Military Coordination with ... and Allies in Humanitarian Operations - Softcover

Many humanitarian interventions led and supported by the United States go beyond simple disaster relief and include such difficult tasks as protecting refugees, securing humanitarian aid, and restoring civil order. The U.S. Air Force often plays an important role in such complex contingency operations. MR1185AF explores how the military might improve coordination with relief agencies and with European allies in such operations. It examines the dynamics of complex contingency operations, provides an overview of the relief community, delineates barriers to better cooperation, discusses the European contribution, and recommends steps the military might take to improve coordination in future crises. Steps include improving military familiarization with key relief organizations humanitarian advisor, establishing more centers of excellence, and bringing relief organizations into the planning process.

Daniel L. Byman (Ph.D., political science, M.I.T.) is a policy analyst at Rand whose research interests include modeling ethnic conflict, assessing Middle East politics and security issues, developing countermeasures against terrorism, reevaluating air power theory, and other general issues related to U.S. foreign policy. Ian O. Lesser (D. Phil., International Politics, St. Antony's College, Oxford University) is a Senior International Policy Analyst at Rand whose areas of expertise include U.S. foreign policy and strategic planning, NATO and Mediterranean affairs, gRand strategy and economic security, and international terrorism.