Joint Doctrine for Amphibious Operations - Historic Naval Ships ...

ActionCONSIDERATIONS DURING MILITARYOPERATIONS OTHER THAN WARRequirements to comply with more restrictive rules of engagement and a clearunderstanding of national objectives in what may be a very uncertain, volatileenvironment.Difficulty in maintaining unit integrity.Development of a multidisciplinary intelligence gathering agency with a strongfocus on the political, cultural, and economic factors that affect the situation.Need for establishment of flexible and responsive command and controlarrangements.Requirement for a comprehensive public affairs capability.Establishment of civil affairs organizations.Need for coordination with nongovernmental organizations, other governmentagencies and departments, and multinational partners that may not betraditional US allies and who may harbor long-standing animosities towardother participating nations.Unique legal issues requiring legal staff personnel to respond to a variety ofcomplex international and operational legal and regulatory issues.Logistics elements employed in quantities disproportionate to their normalmilitary roles, especially during disaster relief and humanitarian assistanceoperations. Logistic units, like all other units, must be capable of defense,particularly if they deploy alone or in advance of other military forces.Medical planning to include the potential to treat host nation population orallied military personnel.Requirements for reserve units and individuals not found in the activecomponent to perform specialized functions required in military operationsother than war (MOOTW).Requirements to plan for eventual transition from MOOTW to combatoperations and vice versa to ensure that desired political objectives areachieved and the force is protected. Likewise, plans must be developed fortermination of operations, to include transition to civil authorities, marking andclearing minefields, closing financial obligations, and disengagement andredeployment of forces.Figure XV-3. Considerations During Military Operations Other Than Warrelatively short notice to participate in a widevariety of MOOTW, predeployment trainingin appropriate subjects should be conductedfor all commanders, staffs, and individuals.g. The Afloat Pre-positioning Force inSupport of MOOTW. Because of the largeand varied quantity of supplies and equipmentembarked, MSC’s APF is particularly wellsuited to support particular types of MOOTW,especially humanitarian assistance anddisaster relief operations.XV-13