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Interoperability Challengers and Cooperation Opportunities in Current and Future Operations. Col Jone Baledrokadroka Dir Force Dev HQ RFMF. INTRODUCTION. Fiji’s Experience and Perspective in OOTW Coalition and PSO East Timor, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Strategic Imperatives.
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Interoperability Challengers and Cooperation Opportunities in Current and Future Operations Col Jone Baledrokadroka Dir Force Dev HQ RFMF
INTRODUCTION • Fiji’s Experience and Perspective in OOTW • Coalition and PSO • East Timor, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
Strategic Imperatives • Post 9/11 Global Security Environment • Defence Transformation • NCW and EBO • Coalition Operations • Full Spectrum Operations • Plug in –niche capability for small armies • Merging Modes of Conflict • Adversaries adaptability
The Future Operating Environment (FOE) and Interoperability Challenges • ‘‘three-block war’’ • “Strategic Corporals” • Professional mastery of warfare • Media sensitivity • Acute Compression • FOE-Complex, Diffuse and Lethal
Coalition Interoperability Challenges • Manoeuvre Operations in the Littoral Environment (MOLE) • transition to peacekeeping/ humanitarian operations • Overmatch Capability
Coalition Interoperability Challenges • Land Force Cooperation inherently complex • Combat Multiplier Effect • Plugging into regional neighbour’s Aust, NZ for lt combat capabilities and force protection
Cooperation Opportunities • regardless of their resources, need to train and think to operate both one level of capability up and one level down from their actual potential • Synchronization than we do of interoperability • Combined training and education programs, and • Drawing on Centers for Army Lessons Learnt as established