A command gap? A practitioner's analysis of the value of comparisons between the UK's military and emergency services' command and control models in the context of UK resilience operations

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 186-194

  Arbuthnot, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MILITARY INTERVENTION; MODEL; NATO; RESILIENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 56349098781     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2008.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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