UID:
kobvindex_DGP1640930175
Umfang:
Ill.
ISSN:
0940-4171
Inhalt:
For almost 15 years the Army has been the mainstay of the missions within the scope of the German contribution to international crisis management and crisis prevenlion. Up until the early 1990s the missions of Army soldiers were primarily humanitarian relief efforts which was certainly also due to the decade- long paralysis of the East-West conflict. Since 1995 the stabilization operations were conducted at increasingly shorter intervals in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 in Kosovo, as of 2001 in Afghanistan, and in the past year there was the successful mission in Congo for supporting the democratization process in that country. When looking at this time period it becomes very quickly apparent that both the quantity and the quality of the missions have significantly changed especially for the Army soldiers. An example for the latter, that is the qualitative development, is last but not least Afghanistan. On the strategic level it is considered to be a stabilization operation; on the tactical level it is essential, however, to maintain the secure environment or to create one as it is the case in the South, for instance. In brief military terms this means: one must fight for it. This applies, with some restrictions, also to the North because there, too, it is necessary to actively preserve each and every day a secure environment as a prerequisite for the reconstruction. (Europäische Sicherheit / SWP)
In:
Europäische Sicherheit, Hamburg : Mittler, 1991, 56(2007), 12, Seite 24-33, 0940-4171
Sprache:
Deutsch
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