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Comprehensive Guide: Disaster Response & Civil-Military Cooperation

This standard guide by Eric Rasmussen, MD, provides 200 pages of detailed information on disaster response and civil-military collaboration. It covers stability operations, smart power in humanitarian support, and key aspects of effective disaster management. The guide emphasizes collaboration between various organizations and agencies for a coordinated response, highlighting the importance of information flow, communication, sustainable plans, and multi-agency collaboration. It also discusses current challenges like climate change impact, resource wars, and socio-economic losses due to natural disasters. Download your free copy now to enhance your disaster response knowledge and preparedness.

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Comprehensive Guide: Disaster Response & Civil-Military Cooperation

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  1. Disaster Response and Civil-Military Cooperation Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP CEO, InSTEDD

  2. This is the standard guide.

  3. Comprehensive reference. 200 pages of detail. Free download. And I have a copy for you.

  4. “Stability Operations…shall be given priority comparable to combat operations…” US DoD Directive 3000.05 28 November 2005 “We believe that preventing wars is as important as winning wars.” US National Maritime Strategy Statement October 2007

  5. Smart Power in Humanitarian Support • Power projection • Irregular conflicts, reactive transformation • Millennium Challenge 2002 • CIA 2015 Report • Resource Wars • Contextual Intelligence • Afghanistan Ring Road • Tajik Road construction • Chinese, Iranian, Turkish • Disaster Response in Failed States

  6. Refugee trauma management Katrina response In my view, collaboration in disaster response is the single most critical unmet need. Cholera outbreak

  7. What disaster information flow requires (technically)…

  8. Likely partners in a disaster response: • UN • DPKO (18 current Peacekeeping Operations) • UNDP (166 of 192 countries) • UN-OCHA • UNHCR, WFP, WHO, UNICEF • NGO • 44,000 and counting • ICRC • Prisoners and disrupted families • Afghanistan: 88 intl /1200 national staff • IFRC • World Bank, IMF, DFID, ECHO, USAID, GTZ…

  9. Casual, distilled 10 Commandments 20 Recommendations 30 Advisories

  10. A subset of recognized Civ-Mil disaster response needs: • Language support • Independent and sustainable power • Tracking of people, processes, and things • Visualized information distributed broadly • Sustainable transition plans with milestones • Communication one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one • Collaborative processes between agencies and organizations • Operational guidelines and organizational charter accessibility • Objective indicators (and impact metrics) so we know we’re progressing • Information collection, analysis, and dissemination, vertical and horizontal

  11. Information flow is almost as vital as water

  12. Six-fold communication redundancy has sometimes proved inadequate, yet… “Nothing worked until you guys arrived” Navy Theater Surgeon (Forward) Belle Chasse, New Orleans Joint Task Force Katrina

  13. Climate Change Perhaps the dominant medium-term national security issue and disaster response preparedness requirement. Now made more acute by the global economic crisis. September 2008

  14. Population affected by water disasters (millions/year) UNDP, 2007

  15. Disasters by Origin 1970-2005 “Data Against Natural Disasters”, UN-OCHA, 2008

  16. Compound Crisis Tajikistan Natural disasters (5) Socio-economic loss (40%) Emerging infections Climate Change Religious extremism Narcotic trafficking Poverty / Brain Drain Post-Soviet disintegration

  17. Singapore MINDEF Dave Snowdon’s Cynefin model of System Dynamics Far beyond scenario planning

  18. Ghani-Lockhart Reconstruction Standards Fixing Failed States

  19. Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP+1 – 360 – 621 – 3592Rasmussen @ InSTEDD.org Collaboration tools Climate change impact Cynefin and Complexity models Civ-Mil Field Coordinator Handbook

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