【英文】国际战略研究中心报告：俄乌战争后欧洲政治意愿的挑战（58页）

英文研究报告 2022年06月13日 06:52 管理员

There has been a signifcant focus on how countries translate military capabilities into outcomes, either through unilateral or multilateral missions.But assessing military performance is a complex undertaking. How a state—or states—perform in conducting military missions can include a wide range of factors, such as strategy, tactics, morale, numerical preponderance, technology, combat motivation, force employment, leadership, and materiel.109 Other factors are also important, such as readiness, sustainability, modernization, and force structure.110 To complicate matters, military forces frequently perform a wide range of missions, such as countering terrorists, deterring aggressors, conducting peacekeeping eforts, enforcing sanctions, performing freedom of navigation missions, and training foreign police and soldiers.111 Profciency in one or several missions does not indicate profciency in all or even most.

To better understand military missions, this section divides them into three categories: (1) crisis response and limited contingency missions; (2) military engagement, security cooperation, deterrence, and assurance missions; and (3) large-scale combat.113 Tese categories can be diferentiated by their scale and scope. Crisis response and limited contingency missions, for example, sit at one end of the confict continuum and generally include small-scale eforts and limited or no combat. Large-scale combat missions sit at the other end of the confict continuum and can involve joint, multidomain operations involving air, ground, maritime, cyber, and space.114 Most military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence missions sit somewhere in the middle. NATO’s three core tasks—collective defense, crisis management, and cooperative security—are captured in this framework.