Military Responses to Unintentional Threats
Unintentional and natural threats to security (BSSb1194)
07/03/2022
Jan Kleiner
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INTRO video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8YpkQTs5w&ab_channel=tvarmycz

Outline-ish
•Civil Defence.
•Czech Army – COVID-19; floods, strategic documents, legal framework.
•CIMIC.
•Miltaries in (international) humanitarian relief.
•COVID-19 and militaries + positive, negative impacts.
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Relief supplies bound for Nabouwalu on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji in January 2021 (Department
of Defence)
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Warm-up
•What are unintentional threats?
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Unintentional threats definitions
30 Minutes for the Future. Spent 20 minutes and watch the video: | by Arbiz Platform | Medium


Where does the military stand in the crisis management?
(Alexander, 2002 as cited in Coppola, 2011, p. 10)
Winkler´s (1997) equation of risk as cited in Zeman (2002, p. 63)

On Campaign Plan Phasing: Six-Phase or Unconstrained? U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Alex Hurtado and
Gunnery Sgt. Damian Henry, a heavy equipment operator and the engineer chief with Special Purpose
Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, deployed in support of Joint Task Force Matthew,
off load supplies for locals affected by Hurricane Matthew at Jeremie, Haiti, Oct. 9, 2016. PLA,
U.S. troops find 'common bond' in weeklong disaster response drill
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Civil Defence (Protection)
Civil defense - Wikipedia
Internationally recognized symbol of the CD units; rooted in the IHL.
•(Carpet) bombing runs in WWI (zeppelins) and WWII.
•Focus on WMDs during the Cold War era.

•After the CW thought to be outdated…
…but terrorism, pandemics, climate crisis, rogue states and Russia said nope à increased demand for
survival and resilience (Cronqvist, Farbøl and Sylvest, 2022).
•Shift: intentional threats only à incl. unintentional ones.
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Czech Civil Defence (SH ČMS, n.d.)
•1951-1993 (civilní obrana)
•1993 - ´Civil Protection´ (civilní ochrana)
•2001 – moved from the DoD to DoI (zákon č. 239/2000 Sb. – Integrated Rescue System) – fire dept
(ochrana obyvatelstva)
•From original 5 military rescue batalions only 2 companies (under the 15th engineer regiment).
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Sweden - 2018


Are countries without the CD irresponsible towards their citizens?



Case 1: Irish Civil Defence during COVID-19
Source: Civildefence.ie


Case 2: Czech Army during COVID-19 (AČR, 2021)
•Around 15,000 personnel deployed à the largest Czech military op.
•Over 13 ops – border patrols deployment, IRS support, logistics (incl. ´Condor flights´),
deployment in homes for the elderly, clever quarantine, Litovel area lockdown, mixed police-army
patrols etc.
Source: AČR, 2021

Czech Army floods mitigation efforts
•2009 – aftermath liquidation with 8020 deployed personnel and 2047 vehicles.
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Source: AČR, 2021
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Relevant Czech legal framework
•The Armed Forces Law (zákon č. 219/1999 Sb.)
•Main task for the AF defined as the defence against external threats.
•Rescue and humanitarian international missions.
•AČR can be tasked with helping the police, with a response to a natural disasters and other
serious events that can result in significant public health risks or property damage.
•BTW - What do the Czech Armed Forces consist of?
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•Marginal mention in the z. č. 240/2000 Sb. (430/2010 Sb.).
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Relevant Czech strategic security documents
•Conception of Civil Protection until 2025 (up to 2030) – HZS ČR.
•Does not mention Czech AF.
•Previous version (…until 2020): AČR as a potential part of the rescue system and as liquidator
(its role is regulated by a framework agreement between the DoD and DoI).
•Czech Army Doctrine 2004 - ´Support ops´ - humanitarian relief to the citizens, civil
administration and organizations.
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Ženisté v Bechyni převzali od Američanů materiál a vybavení za téměř 30 milionů korun | Armáda ČR
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Relevant Czech strategic security documents
•Long-term Prospect for Defence 2035 – emphasis also on civil support during states of crisis and
support for the IRS (especially the engineer corps).
•The POKOS programme (and its conception 2014-2024).
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Ženisté v Bechyni převzali od Američanů materiál a vybavení za téměř 30 milionů korun | Armáda ČR
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Militaries and (international) humanitarian relief
Joint Humanitarian Operations: How to Bring US Humanitarian Assistance into the 21st Century |
Center For Global Development
Source: cgdev.org

INTRO VIDEO:

•Humanitarian assistance as identified as MOOTW (mil. ops other than war).
•Contribution to humanitarian supply chains and logistics – main roles:
•security and protection;
•distribution;
•engineering. (Barber, 2012)
•Civil-military cooperation/coordination (103rd Centre CIMIC).
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Joint Cooperation 2020 - the largest NATO CIMIC exercise takes place virtually - CIMIC-COE
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103. centrum CIMIC/PSYOPS [2013-2019] : CIMIC
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A military definition of logistics (Barber, 2012)
•´The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces… those aspects of
military operations that deal with the design and development, acquisition, storage, movement,
distribution, maintenance, evacuation and disposition of material; movement, evacuation, and
hospitalization of personnel; acquisition of construction, maintenance, operation and disposition
of facilities; and the acquisition of furnishing of services´ (p. 124).
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•Rapid response (capabilities to distribute, shelter, sanitate, evacuate, construct, liquidate
etc.) à main characteristic ´capacity for preparedness´ (p. 128).
•Military logistics are mostly appreciated in the early stage of a crisis situation.
•2005 Hurricane Catrina – large military supply convoys for New Orleans.
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CIMIC in Humanitarian Relief
•Not so smooth – differences among various militaries.
•Principles, doctrines, agendas, SOPs etc.).
•CIMIC humanitarian dimension not new - Napoleonic Wars, WWI/II (Marshall Plan), Berlin Airlift,
Yugoslavia, Rwanda etc.
•conceptual confusion - the ´C´ in CIMIC
•´Collaboration: working with others on a joint project.
•Coordination: integrating diverse elements in an harmonious operation.
•Cooperation: promoting assistance or awillingness to assist´ (OED, 2000 as cited in Heaslip, 2012,
p. 152).
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Humanitarian Aid Supply Network (Kovács and Spens, 2008, p. 223 as cited in Heaslip, 2012, p. 151)
(Too) many actors


Challenges (Heaslip, 2012)
1.Coordination with other actors.
•Parallel activites, and duplication avoidance, time-sensitive tasks, military sense of precedence
etc.--> planning and negotiation.
•à UN cluster groups (e.g., Haiti earthquake aftermath):
•Water, sanitation and hygiene – chaired by UNICEF.
•Health cluster – chaired by WHO etc.
2.Culture – military and civilian especially.
3.Resource and capability gap – how to get relief resources to the disaster area?
•Elements of uncertainty and randomness of disasters.
•UNJLC – UN Joint Logistics Centre – logistics information services.
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1.Financial and human resources.
•Focus often on short-term funding.
•Donors negligent towards strenghtening organizational capacity and capability.
•à available aid, noone to deliver.
2.Infrastructure degradation.
3.Comms (e.g., incompatible radios).
4.Personality
•Success of collaboration depends on the field-level personnel rather than SOPs
•high rate of staff turnover, differences in cultures and chain of command, comms breakdown,
absence of communication procedures, refusal of military aid due to independence and impartiality,
threat of use of force by military.
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Viruses suspended on mid-air
COVID-19 and militaries + what impacts has had the pandemic on armed forces?


Intro
(Michaud et al., 2019)


Ramifications



Positive impacts
•Public opinion – PR campaigns (e.g., British – see Kennard and Glenton, 2020).
•Also after floods – public support of 33% (1997) à 74% (2019) (STEM, 2021).
•Kalkman (2020) – the worth of taxpayers´ money.
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Wrap-up
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References I
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K. M. Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics. Hershey:
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•Coppola, D. P. (2011). Introduction to International Disaster Management. Burlington:
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•Kalkman, J. P. (2020). Military crisis responses to COVID-19. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis
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