Interoperability and Innovation
Richard Menhinick
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Abstract: While interoperability and innovation in a maritime coalition environment is often looked at as a technical issue, it is interpersonal relationships and trust that truly underpin both. Given the differing strategic goals, legal requirements, rules of engagement, personalities and cultures of the nations involved, failure to engage across the highest strategic levels will inevitably lead to failure of interoperability at sea. Trust, relationships, mutual respect, an understanding of culture, patience and courtesy are all required to make interoperability work. The security agendas of small states will thus be well served by the dividends of personal interaction and human understanding that comes from working and serving effectively and sensitively in Operations Other Than War. Keywords: Coalition Warfare; Interoperability; Maritime Security; Operations Other Than War
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Source:
Pointer Vol. 38, No. 3 2012
Series:
Pointer Article ; Vol. 38, No. 3
Language:
English
BRN:
129663