Stovepiping Within Multinational Military Operations: The Case of Mali

Rietjens, Sebastiaan; Baudet, Floribert

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“…This leads us to the organization of the mission. Whereas there is a formal supranational hierarchical structure, with most decision authority centred in the force commander, MINUSMA command and control lines are quite bypassed, and national militaries take precedence (Rietjens & Baudet, 2017). Within robust military units of the different sectors, we can find a Quick Reaction Force and counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device) teams (Van der Lijn, 2019); besides, there are three capabilities that are relevant to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency: UN Police, special forces and intelligence units.…”

Section: Civic-political and Institutionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These tasks make MINUSMA the only UN peace mission with "organic military intelligence-gathering and processing capability" (Cherisey, 2017, p.1), emerged out of a push from European countries and with European personnel and material. ASIFU is functionally differentiated and a separate unit under direct authority of the commander (Rietjens & Baudet, 2017). ASIFU has its conceptual origins in the intelligence unit of Afghanistan's NATO ISAF (Karlsrud, 2018), including capabilities as human intelligence operators, unmanned surveillance drones and attack helicopters, in addition to private contractors' as well as open-source intelligence (ibid., 2018).…”

Section: Civic-political and Institutionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Análisis de la Operación de Paz de Naciones Unidas en Mali: contraterrorismo y contrainsurgencia en MINUSMA

Fabra¹

2022

anal. juríd. - político

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Este artículo analiza el papel de la Misión Multidimensional Integrada de Estabilización de las Naciones Unidas en Malí (MINUSMA) en la lucha contra el terrorismo y la insurgencia. Esta misión de paz es víctima directa de los ataques terroristas e insurgentes, lo que lleva a preguntarnos si los combate activamente, y a revisar si estas tareas emanan del mandato y su implementación, o si tales amenazas llevan a la MINUSMA a combatirlas como consecuencia. El artículo utiliza los elementos teóricos del contraterrorismo y la contrainsurgencia per se, así como aquellos relacionados con las operaciones de paz. Luego, mediante una metodología de investigación cualitativa, utiliza la MINUSMA como estudio de caso para exponer la evolución de las operaciones de paz y la posible expansión actual y futura de sus tareas. Esto, a través del análisis de las resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad, la literatura académica y otros documentos de las Naciones Unidas. El estudio concluye que, efectivamente, la MINUSMA ha llevado a cabo tales tareas, directamente y en cooperación con la operación militar francesa. Estas tareas surgen implícitamente del mandato, con una estructura organizativa y operacional al servicio de estas, y se ven reforzadas por factores sobrevenidos sobre el terreno. Este cambio, eventualmente, acaba con su imparcialidad, con lo que aumentan los riesgos de los cascos azules, disminuyen su eficacia y perturban la doctrina de operaciones de paz de las Naciones Unidas. En conclusión, encontramos que el mandato tácito y su vaguedad no solo dificultan el análisis académico, sino también las tareas sobre el terreno y el futuro de la seguridad del personal internacional y la población de Malí y el Sahel.

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Section: Civic-political and Institutionalmentioning

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Section: Civic-political and Institutionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Análisis de la Operación de Paz de Naciones Unidas en Mali: contraterrorismo y contrainsurgencia en MINUSMA

Fabra¹

2022

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“…This greatly hampered the continuity and sustainability when these soldiers left the mission area. Also, a lack of interoperability between different databases hampered military units in retrieving information (Rietjens and Baudet 2017).…”

Section: Collectionmentioning

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Intelligence in Military Missions: Between Theory and Practice

Rietjens¹

2021

Handbook of Military Sciences

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Intelligence is the primary mechanism that military organizations use to generate understanding and its main purpose is to provide information to decision-makers such as commanders that may help illuminate their decision options. This chapter assesses the role of intelligence in military missions, more specifically the counterinsurgency and stabilizations missions that took place in, for example, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mali.The chapter starts by addressing the changing and increasingly complex nature of many of the conflicts from the 1990s onwards. It explores how this has influenced the use of intelligence and presents two distinct schools of thought. The first school of thought, referred to as Jominian intelligence, tries to unravel the operational environment in a systematic way and regards the intelligence challenges as a series of problems with definite solutions. The second school of thought, referred to as Clausewitzian intelligence, argues that the goal of intelligence is to assess uncertainty and reach a deliberate judgment.The main body of the chapter then analyzes the intelligence process and identifies several of the main intelligence issues within military missions. The intelligence process starts with the direction phase in which policy makers, military commanders, or planners state their needs, often referred to as information requirements. Several issues complicate such direction, including (1) the comprehensive focus of many current military missions, (2) their abstract and ambiguous strategic objectives and expectations, and (3) the military’s unfamiliarity with the area of operations.In the second phase of the intelligence process, the necessary information is collected. In addition to consulting their archives and databases, military units often have a plethora of means, both technical and human, available to collect information. Cross-cultural competencies are of crucial importance, in particular, during the collection phase.The third phase of the intelligence process, labeled processing, turns raw data into intelligence. During the processing phase, the data are analyzed in order to gain understanding or insight. This exceeds the registration of events, but includes understanding the meaning of these events as well as their importance.The fourth and final phase is dissemination of intelligence. Here, the relationship between the producers and consumers of intelligence during military missions is explored. This includes the reasons why consumers sometimes do not fully accept the intelligence they receive.The chapter concludes with an agenda for research on military intelligence. It calls, for example, for a more eclectic author base; multidisciplinary as well as comparative research; increased attention to oversight, ethics, and open source intelligence; and more emphasis on intelligence within the navy, special forces, and constabulary forces.

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Intelligence in defence organizations: a tour de force

Rietjens¹

2020

Intelligence and National Security

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Stovepiping Within Multinational Military Operations: The Case of Mali

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Análisis de la Operación de Paz de Naciones Unidas en Mali: contraterrorismo y contrainsurgencia en MINUSMA

Análisis de la Operación de Paz de Naciones Unidas en Mali: contraterrorismo y contrainsurgencia en MINUSMA

Intelligence in Military Missions: Between Theory and Practice

Intelligence in defence organizations: a tour de force

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