Assault Amphibian Units and The Security Cooperation Marine Air-Ground Task Force

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Floyd
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Marine Air

Mountain Storm

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Paul Westermeyer ◽  
Mark Balboni
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Global War On Terrorism ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
Global War ◽  
Marine Air

This chapter discusses Marine Corps force structure and operations during the Global War on Terrorism with a focus on conducting expeditionary operations. Limited changes to Marine Corps structure have allowed the Marine Corps to maintain their vision of employing a Marine Air-Ground Task Force as the preferred method to support limited land combat operations. Along with a summary of Marine Corps operations since 2001, the chapter highlights the 22nd MEU(SOC) support to Operation Mountain Storm in 2004, from deployment to operations to the aftermath of the failure to provide follow-on forces to reinforce the unit's successes.

scholarly journals Interorganizational Cooperation and the Fight against Terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olayinka Ajala
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Interorganizational Cooperation ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
Joint Task Force

The transnational nature of security threats in the 21st Century are such that interorganizational cooperation is necessary to effectively combat these threats. This article explores a key organization, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), charged with curtailing the threat posed by terrorism in certain parts of the Sahel and West Africa. Using the theoretical framework of Walt’s balance of threat and a combination of data obtained from ACLED and expert interviews, the article argues that the MNJTF has not been successful in achieving its mandate. This could be attributed to five lapses in the restructuring of the organization in 2015 to combat terrorism. The article concludes that for interorganizational security cooperation to be successful, the allies must equally acknowledge that they face the same existential threats which will make them commit to the demands of the organisation.

Overlapping Regionalism and Security Cooperation: Power-Based Explanations of Nigeria's Forum-Shopping in the Fight against Boko Haram

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 576-599
Author(s):  
Ingo Henneberg ◽  
Friedrich Plank
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Forum Shopping ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Lake Chad ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
Specific Dimension ◽  
National Environment

AbstractRegional conflicts increasingly require multilevel efforts by regional, subregional, and international actors. When states are confronted with a cooperation problem, often there are several institutions available to address this issue. Drawing on the literature of overlapping regionalism and forum-shopping, we argue that existing explanatory models benefit from adding power-based explanations. By conceptualizing an issue-specific dimension and factors specific to the national environment as additional power-based criteria for forum-shopping, we expand the existing literature. Applying our framework to the response to the Boko Haram uprising, our study examines why Nigeria preferred specific regional entities to others. We find that Nigerian resistance toward external intervention and hegemonic interests inherent in national elites as power-based aspects of forum-shopping explain the counterintuitive creation of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) under the umbrella of the rather unknown Lake Chad Bassin Commission (LCBC) instead of reliance on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) or the African Union (AU) as important security providers in Africa.

A turn toward experimentalism? Rethinking security and governance in the twenty-first century

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK T. NANCE ◽  
M. PATRICK COTTRELL
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Nuclear Terrorism ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Financing Of Terrorism ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Governance Arrangements

AbstractConventional understandings of security cooperation are rooted in the state-centric and materialist assumptions dominant in the Cold War and subscribe to the dictum of the Reagan years, ‘trust but verify’. In today's more complex setting, however, governance arrangements with the most potential to address constantly mutating security threats, such as the concern over nuclear terrorism, may not be those solely designed to ensure compliance, but rather those that are better equipped to identify and solve new problems. This article draws on a burgeoning literature on ‘new’ or ‘experimental’ governance and advances an analytical framework to consider the extent to which states and other actors might be turning toward an alternative set of mechanisms that rely more heavily on non-binding standards and recommendations, peer review, increased participation, and experimentation to generate new knowledge about the challenges they face, even in the ‘hard’ case of security cooperation. It then explores this potential reorientation in two separate, but complementary cases that have emerged as key tools in preventing illicit nuclear proliferation: the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), which seeks to bolster states' counter-financing of terrorism systems, and the UNSC Resolution 1540 Committee, which guides efforts to fill the governance gaps in the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Although both cases on paper contain more traditional enforcement components, in practice they rely increasingly on experimental governance. The article concludes with an evaluation of the promise and limits of an experimentalist framework in understanding the evolution of governance arrangements in response to a more complex security environment and suggests potential avenues for future research.

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