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The planning of operations is regulated by documents covering the participation of forces in military actions in a national and multinational context. The process of planning the operations has been adapted to conceptual planning progress. The concept of allied effect-based operations, which was an alternative to old national concepts, has undergone transformations, so the process of planning operations at allied level is currently based on the concept of a comprehensive approach, which is a strategic concept, do not give up effects. The term action-based operations has been replaced by the term "thought-based thinking" and belongs to the general concept of comprehensive approach. If the planning process meant the effects, so the main planning objectives were the effects, then the planning was based on concrete objectives, the effects being maintained for the economy of effort and maximizing efficiency, the main purpose of the effects being the evaluation of the operations. From this point of view, we consider that the concept has not been abandoned, what has changed, it was just the working method, the subject being still topical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Comprehensive Approach concept has been adopted in numerous domains with great success. Its adoption in conflict and crisis management seems to be the following secret weapon to fight against the threats to security. We think that it is important to study this concept because of its possibility to change the perception of the crisis and to explore in finding ways of implementation. The research will be a study of ISAF's (International Securit y Assistance Force) strategy for the Afghanistan post-conflict period, the strategy which includes a Comprehensive Approach of the situation as the framework where all the decisions are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Comprehensive Approach concept has been adopted in numerous domains with great success. Its adoption in conflict and crisis management seems to be the following secret weapon to fight against the threats to security. We think that it is important to study this concept because of its possibility to change the perception of the crisis and to explore in finding ways of implementation. The research will be a study of ISAF's (International Securit y Assistance Force) strategy for the Afghanistan post-conflict period, the strategy which includes a Comprehensive Approach of the situation as the framework where all the decisions are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proliferation of risks and global threatenings, especially analogue-digital ones, calls for generating complete, national and mainly international, comprehensive security solutions. Economic, political and military crises or of any other nature occurring in the last decades, the risks and virulently increasing irregular menaces exercise serious-minded national and international comprehensi ve approach concerning the challenges of the present security climate. Organizations such as NATO or UE considers necessary engaging actively in preventing conflicts, fighting terrorism, maintaining peace, crises management, humanitarian as well as natural disasters' assistance. For future successful missions, new concepts involving civil, economic and political instruments need to be adopted in order to implement the military power vector in a synergetic way. There is a call not only for comprehensive approach but also for comprehensive integration of the respective instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a consensus that the UN needs a stronger strategic culture, but its strategic circumstances militate against this. Since 2006, the UN has struggled with a series of crises that have overshadowed efforts to develop the idea of integration. It also faces a systemic crisis, in that its framework for deploying missions has been undermined in Darfur. In addition it faces a paradigmatic crisis, as many of its assumptions about transitions from war to peace have been shown wanting in cases from Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo. At a time of increasing rivalry among major powers, not least in the Security Council, the UN may not develop comprehensive strategies aimed at transforming post-conflict societies. But it may be able to achieve more limited but politically credible goals [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, the North Atlantic Alliance is engaged in peacekeeping operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, in the fight against terrorism and reform of the security sector, in public diplomacy and political consultations, permanently adapting i t’s working concepts in a way which fulfills it’s specific requirements. Although the human security concept is not formally stated in the organizations’ official documents, the Alliance proves constant concerns for ensuring the security of citizens and communities not only during multinational field operations, but also in initiatives as complex as Civil-Military Cooperation, the Comprehensive Approach or Multiple Futures Project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process leading to a new NATO strategy is in its initial stage. It remains to be seen whether the procedures currently envisioned can sustain the complex grid of NATO's decision making processes. In the wake of the fundamental changes in the international security landscape throughout the last decade, the expectations of a new Strategic Concept are very high. Given the wide spectrum of national preferences, regional priorities and political differences among 28 NATO member states, forging consensus will be an extremely demanding task. NATO might miss its goal of formulating concise, coherent and forward looking strategic guidance that can satisfy political leaders, military planners and public elites at the same time. The painful process of forging consensus on key strategic positions cannot be avoided. Even if NATO concludes some of the issues only at the lowest common denominator, it is the process, as much as the result that will count. Being accountable for the positions expressed will make free riding more difficult. A serious and thorough strategic discussion, despite all the dangers of displaying frictions and disunity, can already have a re-committing and re-engaging effect, something that NATO will badly need in the years to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]