POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United Nations
1 Mar 2016
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Problems with the icc going to war: geography, effective command + control. Communication: all soldiers deployed speak at least enough english to hold a conversation, issue with communication usually happens at the lower (tactical) levels where soldiers are not able to communicate with civilians because of the language barrier. Interoperability: the ability of the technology of various groups to work together, operating systems, re-fueling systems, radio frequencies; nato took years and billions to reach the us level of standardization in the previously mentioned. If a canadian soldier is on a peacekeeping mission with a foreign leader he is still responsible to the canadian government and not that leader because he acts by the rule and interests of his own government. Although most of the time governments are in agreement and forces cooperate; there have been many cases of soldiers acting against the local commanders orders based on orders received directly from their own governments o.
