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The strategic purpose of individual augmentee officers for junior partners in multinational military operations

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  • Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

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This article examines the strategic purpose of Individual Augmentee Officers (IAOs) for junior partners in multinational military operations through an exploratory case study of Danish IAOs in Iraq and South Sudan between 2014 and 2017. IAOs are individual officers who are moved from their normal functions to be seconded to other units of the armed forces of their own or another country or an international institution. The study concludes that IAOs function as strategically important, yet not necessarily indispensable, supplements to military contingents in several ways: making tangible contributions to the overall mission (contributing), gaining access to information, knowledge, and experience (learning), and lobbying decision-making processes within mission headquarters (lobbying). The usefulness of IAOs depends on whether the junior partner has specific interests and a significant presence in the theatre and whether the mission is conducted as a UN mission, a NATO mission, or an ad hoc coalition.

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  • Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, 2019. "The strategic purpose of individual augmentee officers for junior partners in multinational military operations," Defense & Security Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 343-361, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdanxx:v:35:y:2019:i:4:p:343-361
    DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2019.1675937
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