Can NATO's "new" allies and key partners exercise national-level command in crisis and war?
Loading...
Authors
Young, Thomas-Durell
Subjects
Advisors
Date of Issue
2018
Date
Publisher
Routledge
Language
Abstract
This article posits that most postcommunist members of NATO and key partners continue the practice of using communist concepts of command at the national level of governance. These concepts include the hyper-centralization of decision making, collective decision making, and of most concern, unclear chains of command and alignment of authority with responsibility. Combined, these concepts have the potential for inhibiting the timely and clear command of a nation’s armedforces, let alone their effective assimilation into the alliance’s integrated command structure. Such an eventuality has clearly negative implications for the alliance generally, but these weaknesses also could have the unexpected consequence of compromising “new” allies’ national sovereignty in crisis and war.
Type
Article
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2018.1419711
Series/Report No
Department
Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
14 p.
Citation
Young, Thomas-Durell. (2018) Can NATO's "new" allies and key partners exercise national-level command in crisis and war?, Comparative Strategy, 37:1, 9-21
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.