Warriors in Peace Operations - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

Although the setup had changed in the CP, and it
appeared to be organized more on functional lines, some
things had not changed in the last month. The long line of
briefers paraded in front of the CG were asked very tough
questions; many did not know the answers. The very
evident frustration was not much different from what I had
seen in November. Again, the staff was whipped, except now
the deployment was a matter of being a few days away.
That night Major Tracy and I worked well past
midnight, trying to determine the best way to organize the
DOC. There was the basic housekeeping task of getting the
assigned rooms organized to become a command and control
center. Then there was the issue of creating tracking charts,
phone rosters of key points of contact, and determining
what elements of information we needed to track and how
information flow would occur. We determined we would
need more personnel to help us run the operation. We also
decided we needed primarily to track trains. Eventually, we
learned we also needed to track aircraft, buses, and convoys.
The next day, in anticipation that we would get a
deployment order immediately after the signing of the
Dayton Accords (officially the General Framework
Agreement for Peace), we continued to deploy the “enabling
forces.” These were units that would set up deployment
nodes along the way. These forces would assist units deploy
into the Area of Responsibility (AOR) as soon as we received
the deployment order.
On December 14 we continued to learn more about how
the deployment system was supposed to work. The more we
learned, the more we realized how convoluted the system
was. I saw a fascinating chart about this time.
The Battle Command Training Program had sent a team
from Fort Leavenworth to observe the division and give us
some assistance. General (Retired) Lindsey, the head of the
team, visited the embryonic Deployment Operations Center
about this time. He showed me a chart the team had created
which graphically described the deployment process. There
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