Defining Command, Leadership, and Management Success Factors Within Stability Operations

This monograph addresses the topic of Command, Leadership, and Management (CLM) success attributes in stability operations and is intended to reach a wide audience of actors including military and civilian deliverers of effect at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of operations. It integrates disparate and wide-ranging definitions into a framework to study stability operations. Using this framework, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the International Committee of the Red Cross are analyzed. Three case studies from the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan are provided. The author provides a model for future research.

DAVE FIELDER is a major in the United Kingdom (UK) Royal Marine (Reserve) and has been on a variety of active and deployed service since 2002. He completed regular commissioned service with the Royal Navy where, after a brief flying career, he served as a Lieutenant Royal Navy with Commando Royal Marines; the Commando Training Centre, Royal Marines; and at HMS Collingwood in a variety of training and operational roles. Major Fielder has been deployed to Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina (as the European Forces (EUFOR) Press Spokesman), Afghanistan, and most recently Iraq. During his time in Bosnia, he had regular exposure to the highest levels of political and military command and thus began his interests in the link between Commander, Leadership, and Management (CLM) as they are implemented in stability operations. After Bosnia, Major Fielder returned to the Royal Navy Command HQ as a Military Aide to a Royal Marine Brigadier and completed his dissertation. Major Fielder recently returned from Baghdad, Iraq, where he was the LNO to a Maritime Component, representing a NAVCENT Bahrain based UK Naval One Star to the U.S. Forces-Iraq in the J3 lane of the Joint Operations Center. He witnessed the transition from Operation IRAQI FREEDOM to Operation NEW DAWN. Major Fielder is a graduate of the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the UK Joint Command and Staff College.