EBAO stands for a totally new approach to planning and executing operations, built on the relation of causality, the multiplying effect of technology and systemic analysis. Developed by the Americans and adopted by NATO, this sophisticated method supposedly makes it possible to reach the end-state of a military intervention through the control of each and every effect of the actions conducted. Its failure in managing complexity should not prevent us from taking its better aspects into consideration, for instance the capability of fairly sharing the burden between the military and other agencies (Interagency).
Effects Based Approach to Operations: Just a Fashion?
Manoeuvre has long been perceived in the French Army in the context of achieving a major effect on the ground or the enemy. Although far from being new, the concept of effect takes on new proportions in current American conceptual developments through the theory of Effects-Based Operations, where the major effect is simply the top of a pyramid of numerous correlated effects.
The idea of conducting operations based upon the effects one wishes to obtain first appeared in the euphoria following the overwhelming victory in the first Gulf War in 1991, and has since the end of 2006 been incorporated into official US joint operational conduct and planning manuals.
The numerous developments made in 15 years will affect our forces’ preparation for the future, at the very least in order to maintain our interoperability with our major allies.
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