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Since the early 1980s, the concept of combined operations had been referred to by NATO, particularly by the US. Department of Defence, as joint operations. Regardless of the use of combined, joined or interoperability terms, the concept ensures that different military organisations maintain the
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In the NATO concept, interoperability does not necessarily require common military equipment. What is important is that this equipment can share common facilities and communicate with other equipment. NATO militaries claim to have achieved interoperability because of decades of joint planning,
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The ability to conduct combined operations allows national forces, their subordinated formations, units or systems to perform tasks and complete missions and operations together. The overriding requirement is that they share common
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communications, which made it the departing point for the rest of the 19th- and 20th-century developments, itt was also the first used as a military theatre instrument to force decision in the conflict.
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was the first example of a planned combined operations campaign that was directed as part of a multinational coalition strategy. Aside from being the first modern expeditionary operation that used
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The period of World War I was prolonged well past its completion into the 1920s and saw combined operations established as a systematic and planned operations with a larger scope than the simple
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cooperation. Interaction between units and formations of the land, naval and air forces, or the cooperation between military and civilian authorities in
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ability to conduct combat and non-combat military operations regardless of the national and service (ground, naval and air forces) differences.
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Given the U.S. usage of the word "joint" meaning such activities, the British usage faded relatively quickly. After World War II, the
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then took on an extra meaning, beyond that of a multinational multiservice grouping since it came to refer to a particular type of
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and the beginnings of development in true combined operations at strategic, operational, and tactical levels with the unsuccessful
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are operations conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together for the accomplishment of a common strategy, a
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began using the term to denote multinational operations, which might mean the land forces of several countries, for example
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to denote multi-service activities, those that involved air, land or naval forces acting together and coordinated by the
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used combined operations extensively to expand their empire and influence in the Mediterranean and beyond, including the
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migrations, which combined raiding, longer term inland operations, occupation and settlement. They were conducted as
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Although all combined operations until the invention of the combustion engine were largely dependent on the
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Joint Operations (RN, Army, RAF, NATO) : The RN Today : Training and People : Royal Navy
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in 21 BC, the Kushites and the Romans performed joint military operations against several adversaries.
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The next development in the evolution of combined operations was made during the expansion of the
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allowed a significant expansion in the scale of combined operations, notably by the European
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One of the most extensive and complex of combined operations that followed the war was the
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that was only limited during the era of sailing ships. It also included extensive use of
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of its members, allow pooling of resources and produce synergies among its commands.
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operations. The colonial experience, though largely confined to the period before
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used in cooperation with the naval and land components of the deployed forces.
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Facilitating Joint Operations: The Evolving Battlefield Coordination Element
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with one another. These abilities reduce duplication of effort and increase
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was introduced as an influence on the military strategy, such as during the
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and Roman settlement of the territories. After the peace agreement between
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both at sea and on land. One notable example of that evolution was the
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operations, and sometimes were strategic in nature, reaching as far as
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The development in combined operations reached a new level during the
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multi-national forces during the land phase of the operation when
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The concept of combined operations evolved largely as a result of
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deployment planning, outside the treaty area, in the late 1990s.
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The phrase "combined operations" was first introduced by the
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is known as joint operations or interoperability capability.
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could be considered an early form of combined operations.
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and procedures, utilise each other's infrastructure and
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Though a significantly-expanded combined operation, the
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The next development of combined operations came from
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in his most famous achievement at the outbreak of the
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