Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap (Contemporary Security Studies)

192 Pages·2006·0.89 MB·English

by  AdAms & Ben-Ari

TRANSFORMING EUROPEAN
MILITARIES
This book addresses Europe’s ability to be a key actor in the new international
security environment by assessing its capability to respond to threats in a
networked manner. If the risk of a Soviet invasion of Europe has now disappeared,
new security threats have emerged and the military has taken on a new range
of responsibilities, including peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations.
As military operations are increasingly undertaken within the framework of
international coalitions, their success depends largely on the degree to which
national forces can work in a coordinated way in the fi eld.
Written by two experts in the fi eld of defense technologies and European
security, this book takes an in-depth look at European capabilities to conduct
Network-Based Operations (NBO) and their implications for intra-European
and transatlantic interoperability in the future. It examines national, NATO
and EU capabilities, and analyses the three technology areas most crucial for
interoperability – command and control, communications, and intelligence
gathering and dissemination – as well as looking at the doctrinal and strategic
commitment to NBO. The book also examines the technology and industrial
bases supporting European NBO. It concludes that although there exist adequate
European know-how and strong industries to supply the relevant capabilities,
much remains to be done to do so more rapidly and effi ciently. Finally, the book
makes recommendations for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic on ways
to improve interoperability in future coalition operations.
This book will be of great interest to students of security studies, European
politics and international relations, as well as to US and European policymakers.
Gordon Adams is Professor of International Affairs and Director of Security
Policy Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington
University. He has written extensively on US and European defense budgeting
and planning and on transatlantic defense policy.
Guy Ben-Ari is a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
where he researches issues related to the US and European technology and
industrial bases supporting defense. He regularly serves as an expert evaluator to
the European Commission’s research and technology Framework Program.
CONTEMPORARY SECURITY STUDIES
NATO’S SECRET ARMY
Operation Gladio and terrorism in western Europe
Daniel Ganser
THE US, NATO AND MILITARY BURDEN-SHARING
Peter Kent Forster and Stephen J. Cimbala
RUSSIAN GOVERNANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Geo-strategy, geopolitics and new governance
Irina Isakova
THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND FINLAND 1938–1940
Diplomatic sideshow
Craig Gerrard
RETHINKING THE NATURE OF WAR
Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Jan Angstrom
PERCEPTION AND REALITY IN THE MODERN YUGOSLAV
CONFLICT
Myth, falsehood and deceit 1991–1995
Brendan O’Shea
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PEACEBUILDING IN
POST-DAYTON BOSNIA
Tim Donais
THE DISTRACTED EAGLE
The rift between America and Old Europe
Peter H. Merkl
THE IRAQ WAR
European perspectives on politics, strategy, and operations
Edited by Jan Hallenberg and Håkan Karlsson
STRATEGIC CONTEST
Weapons proliferation and war in the greater Middle East
Richard L. Russell
PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS AND CONFLICT
The Gulf War and Kosovo
David R. Willcox
MISSILE DEFENCE
International, regional and national implications
Edited by Bertel Heurlin and Sten Rynning
GLOBALISING JUSTICE FOR MASS ATROCITIES
A revolution in accountability
Chandra Lekha Sriram
ETHNIC CONFLICT AND TERRORISM
The origins and dynamics of civil wars
Joseph L. Soeters
GLOBALISATION AND THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM
Patterns and predictions
Brynjar Lia
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND STRATEGY
The evolution of American nuclear policy
Stephen J. Cimbala
NASSER AND THE MISSILE AGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Owen L. Sirrs
WAR AS RISK MANAGEMENT
Strategy and confl ict in an age of globalised risks
Yee-Kuang Heng
MILITARY NANOTECHNOLOGY
Potential applications and preventive arms control
Jurgen Altmann
NATO AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Regional alliance, global threats
Eric R. Terzuolo
EUROPEANISATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY IDENTITY
The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states
Pernille Rieker
INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT PREVENTION AND
PEACE-BUILDING
Sustaining the peace in post confl ict societies
Edited by T. David Mason and James D. Meernik
CONTROLLING THE WEAPONS OF WAR
Politics, persuasion, and the prohibition of inhumanity
Brian Rappert
CHANGING TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY RELATIONS
Do the US, the EU and Russia form a new strategic triangle?
Edited by Jan Hallenberg and Håkan Karlsson
THEORETICAL ROOTS OF US FOREIGN POLICY
Machiavelli and American unilateralism
Thomas M. Kane
CORPORATE SOLDIERS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
The rise of private military companies
Christopher Kinsey
TRANSFORMING EUROPEAN MILITARIES
Coalition operations and the technology gap
Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari
GLOBALIZATION AND CONFLICT
National security in a ‘new’ strategic era
Edited by Robert G. Patman
TRANSFORMING
EUROPEAN MILITARIES
Coalition operations and the technology gap
Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari
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CONTENTS
List of tables viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations x
1 Introduction: networked operations and European capabilities 1
2 European strategies for network-based operations 9
3 European national capabilities for network-based operations 19
4 NATO and other multilateral network-based capabilities 84
5 The European Union and network-based capabilities 107
6 European collaboration on space assets for network-based
operations 121
7 The European industrial and technology base for
network-based capabilities 132
8 European network-based capabilities: policy
recommendations 144
9 Conclusions 157
Glossary 161
Bibliography 164
Index 169
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TABLES
3.1 Principal European national capabilities for network-based operations 22
3.2 French capabilities for network-based operations 34
3.3 United Kingdom capabilities for network-based operations 48
3.4 German capabilities for network-based operations 59
3.5 Italian capabilities for network-based operations 67
3.6 Dutch capabilities for network-based operations 71
3.7 Spanish capabilities for network-based operations 75
3.8 Swedish capabilities for network-based operations 80
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge the support and assistance of many offi cial
and private sector sources in the United States, Britain, France, and at NATO
and the European Union whom we interviewed for this study. Most of them
remain necessarily anonymous, but their assistance was clearly essential to the
study. Several specifi c individuals deserve special mention and thanks: Christine
Bernot, Adm. (ret.) Jean Betermier, Henri Conze, Christophe Cornu, Emmanuel
Germond, Michel Iagolnitzer, Erol Levy, Xavier Pasco, Diego Ruiz Palmer, and
Burkard Schmitt.
Special thanks go to Professor John Logsdon and to Professor Ray Williamson
of the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University in Washington
DC, who were participants in the research and writing process for the original
monograph which was the starting point for this book. Their knowledge of
European space policies and of the national and multinational space programs in
Europe were a signifi cant contribution to the space chapter in the book and their
comments overall were very helpful.
Finally, this book is based on a monograph “Bridging the Gap: European
C4ISR Capabilities and Transatlantic Interoperability,” published by the Center
for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University
in Washington, DC. The Center sponsored and funded the research on which the
monograph and much of this book is based, and we are grateful for their support.
We particularly want to thank the Center’s Director, Hans Binnendijk, and staff
members Stuart Johnson, Elihu Zimet, Charles Barry and Richard Kugler for their
assistance and excellent comments.
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