DEFINITION OF OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR
Operations Other Than War (OOTW) suffer from an identity crisis. Sometimes called Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW), sometimes known as Low Intensity Conflict (LIC), sometimes called Stability Support Operations (SSO), and sometimes designated as Small Scale Contingencies (SSC), these operations have caused both theoretical and practical problems for the military.
These operations range in size from the airlifting several fire trucks from Tennessee to Florida to fight the 1998 Summer fires to the Bosnia Peacekeeping operation involving tens of thousands of US military personnel and tens of thousands of other nations' military personnel, hardly a “small scale contingency.”
They include operations to provide stability to foreign countries, such as Haiti; however, they also include support to insurgencies, a “stability support operation” only in the negative.
They include Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEOs) in which armed force may...
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Hartley, D.S. (2001). Military operations other than war . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_614
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