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Disaster Response and Civil-Military Cooperation. Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP CEO, InSTEDD. This is the standard guide. Comprehensive reference. 200 pages of detail. Free download. And I have a copy for you. “Stability Operations…shall be given
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Disaster Response and Civil-Military Cooperation Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP CEO, InSTEDD
This is the standard guide.
Comprehensive reference. 200 pages of detail. Free download. And I have a copy for you.
“Stability Operations…shall be given priority comparable to combat operations…” US DoD Directive 3000.05 28 November 2005 “We believe that preventing wars is as important as winning wars.” US National Maritime Strategy Statement October 2007
Smart Power in Humanitarian Support • Power projection • Irregular conflicts, reactive transformation • Millennium Challenge 2002 • CIA 2015 Report • Resource Wars • Contextual Intelligence • Afghanistan Ring Road • Tajik Road construction • Chinese, Iranian, Turkish • Disaster Response in Failed States
Refugee trauma management Katrina response In my view, collaboration in disaster response is the single most critical unmet need. Cholera outbreak
Likely partners in a disaster response: • UN • DPKO (18 current Peacekeeping Operations) • UNDP (166 of 192 countries) • UN-OCHA • UNHCR, WFP, WHO, UNICEF • NGO • 44,000 and counting • ICRC • Prisoners and disrupted families • Afghanistan: 88 intl /1200 national staff • IFRC • World Bank, IMF, DFID, ECHO, USAID, GTZ…
Casual, distilled 10 Commandments 20 Recommendations 30 Advisories
A subset of recognized Civ-Mil disaster response needs: • Language support • Independent and sustainable power • Tracking of people, processes, and things • Visualized information distributed broadly • Sustainable transition plans with milestones • Communication one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one • Collaborative processes between agencies and organizations • Operational guidelines and organizational charter accessibility • Objective indicators (and impact metrics) so we know we’re progressing • Information collection, analysis, and dissemination, vertical and horizontal
Six-fold communication redundancy has sometimes proved inadequate, yet… “Nothing worked until you guys arrived” Navy Theater Surgeon (Forward) Belle Chasse, New Orleans Joint Task Force Katrina
Climate Change Perhaps the dominant medium-term national security issue and disaster response preparedness requirement. Now made more acute by the global economic crisis. September 2008
Population affected by water disasters (millions/year) UNDP, 2007
Disasters by Origin 1970-2005 “Data Against Natural Disasters”, UN-OCHA, 2008
Compound Crisis Tajikistan Natural disasters (5) Socio-economic loss (40%) Emerging infections Climate Change Religious extremism Narcotic trafficking Poverty / Brain Drain Post-Soviet disintegration
Singapore MINDEF Dave Snowdon’s Cynefin model of System Dynamics Far beyond scenario planning
Ghani-Lockhart Reconstruction Standards Fixing Failed States
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP+1 – 360 – 621 – 3592Rasmussen @ InSTEDD.org Collaboration tools Climate change impact Cynefin and Complexity models Civ-Mil Field Coordinator Handbook