Originally Posted by
West Coast
In Somalia we were read ROE based in a humanitarian mission in hazardous zone. The Clinton administration and the UN morphed that into a primarily combatant role without changing the ROE. This evidenced at all levels of the planning, execution and logistics. Those ROE limitations seem to me to match up with what JSF said. Within the narrow scope of my experiences, he nailed it.
My most recent experiences were with something a bit beyond
a humanitarian mission.
I am sad to repeat that, as I posted, the problem with that piece of the RoE remains an obstacle to operations at a lot of levels. Since war is the child of politics, I don't think that piece of it will change any time soon.
