{"title":"Denying Sanctuary","authors":"Gregory Roberts","doi":"10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813177571.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813177571.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contends that the United States' inability to conclude the war in Afghanistan has been a direct consequence of its political aim. Policy-makers intended Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) to achieve a state of perpetual prevention that not only eliminated terrorist sanctuaries but also denied terrorists the possibility of sanctuary in the future. Attaining this goal required an open-ended commitment of American landpower, until such time as a new Afghan political order could prevent terrorist safe havens from reemerging. However, US policy-makers repeatedly planned for the termination of the military campaign rather than the achievement of its political objective.Consequently, the United States never developed a strategy for achieving OEF's desired end state.","PeriodicalId":205810,"journal":{"name":"Landpower in the Long War","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116396059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles C. Luke, Christopher O. Bowers, A. Willard
{"title":"Landpower and Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief","authors":"Charles C. Luke, Christopher O. Bowers, A. Willard","doi":"10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813177571.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/KENTUCKY/9780813177571.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the strategic value of landpower in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) operations. When disasters occur that are significant enough to derail/delay political agendas, the US government depends on landpower's unique capabilities to support the lead federal agency, the US Agency for International Development. The authors use three disaster relief operations case studies (the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, and the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines) to illuminate the Army's core roles in HA/DR success. Lastly, the chapter discusses the secondary benefits of successful HA/DR operations like enhancing interoperability among joint, interagency, and multinational partners, assuring partners and allies, and reinforcing the strategic narrative of US power.","PeriodicalId":205810,"journal":{"name":"Landpower in the Long War","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127585131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}