United Nations Infantry Battalion Manual - the United Nations

CHAPTER 8
Organization and Equipment
8.1 : Introduction.
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The UN Infantry Battalion organizational structure comprises three or four
Infantry Company Groups (ICG) and a Support Company with strength of
850 personnel for deployment in most of the multidimensional peacekeeping
missions. The organizational structure focuses on building and enhancing
various multifaceted peacekeeping capacities expected of the battalion
in a mission area by incorporating key capabilities to augment the performance.
The organization is adaptable in its force composition and equipment
profile to specific mission requirements and is flexible to adjust to the
TCC organizational structure by plug in or plug off modules.
Based on the capability-driven approach, the force configuration of the
battalion will depend on the number of concurrent designated tasks to be
executed; the size of the force element conducting these tasks; the peacekeeping
specific key capabilities, specialised skills and capacities required;
the operational environment (pragmatic current and future threat analysis
and mission mandate and objectives); the terrain imperatives and geographical
spread/separation of deployment. It will be further complemented
by the force-driving and underpinning variable factors of mobility,
firepower and force protection requirements in a mission area.
8.2 : Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to lay down a base model organizational
structure and equipment profile for a UN Infantry Battalion, adaptable and
modifiable to specific mission requirements. It will provide guidance and
assistance to the battalion commanders, the TCCs, the senior force and sector
HQ leadership and staff in various missions and the DPKO and the DFS at
the UN HQ in planning, structuring, equipping and employing the battalion
in various multidimensional peacekeeping operations.
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