The impact of strategic concepts and Approaches on the Effects-Based Approach to Operations - A Baseline Collective Assessment Report

Authors:

  • Claes Nilsson
  • Markus Derblom
  • Robert Egnell

Publish date: 2007-12-21

Report number: FOI-R--2394--SE

Pages: 57

Written in: English

Keywords:

  • Effects-Based Approach to Operations
  • Comprehensive Approach
  • Multinational Experiment
  • multifunctional Implementation Planning

Abstract

A core theme of the Swedish Armed Forces´ (SwAF) concept- and doctrine-development is the development of the Effects-Based Approach to Operations (EBAO) and related concepts and approaches. This Base Data Report provides a milestone for the Swedish Research Defence Agency´s support to the SwAF´s development of EBAO and the engagement within the Multinational Experiment 5 (MNE 5). The scope of contemporary crisis management engagements is increasingly broad and the crisis are often marked by a high degree of complexity which put high demands on cooperation and coordination for both civilian and military actors. The report discusses challenges regarding planning, implementation and evaluation of multifunctional operations and its implications for, and relation to, EBAO. The report consists of three main parts. The first describes emerging strategic concepts for multifunctional operations, focusing on the Integrated Missions of the UN and the Comprehensive Approach of the EU, and how these and other concepts could affect the development of EBAO. In the second part, multifunctional implementation planning is studied, a highly interesting area that could provide valuable inputs for the development of crisis management operations. The third part presents and synthesises results from past and ongoing experimentation, with a focus on the development-efforts of MNE5.