From 30 November 2000 until 18 June 2001 the Netherlands took part in the UN-mission for Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). What made this mission special was that it was the first time that SHIRBRIG (Standby Forces High Readiness Brigade) was deployed operationally. Under the leadership of the UNMEE Force …

In 1999 the Gele Rijders (Yellow Riders), the traditional name for the soldiers of 11 Battalion Horse Artillery, and with them soldiers, hussars, and gunners of numerous other units, were deployed to the municipality of Orahovac in Kosovo. In the evaluation report the Secretary of Defence sent to Parliament …

Some four years ago, the increased attention for civil military cooperation (CIMIC) led to a situation in which the Netherlands Chief of Defence Staff requested the Services to develop a CIMIC Policy, which would give him sufficient information about the CIMIC capacities needed for the Netherlands Armed …

The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly …

Consideration whether or not a Dutch commander has sufficient and effective legal means at his or her disposal to maintain discipline

In March 1997 the department of Military Operational Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy sent out a questionnaire to members of the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) and Air Force (RNLAF). The purpose of this questionnaire was to try and find out how their soldiers were being trained in the use of …

Soldiers and their home fronts have to take care of themselves during deployment. They have to find and use their inner strenght. Where do these women find the strenght to cope with a difficult period of a half-year separation from their husbands? The voice of the home front is seldom heard. This article …

In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience is dicussed. The soldiers themselves - especially the Dutch ones - take centre stage. What did they do, or what did they do not? How did they and their home front experience it all? The contributions are the …

The author re-examines the the Bosnian-Serb attack on Srebrenica. His analysis focusses on the initial stage before the fall of the enclave. He tries to introduce a different perspective on the way key decision-makers of UNPROFOR in Srebrenica (Karremans), Sarajevo (Smith, Nicolai) and Zagreb (Janvier), …

The author describes and analysis Dutch public opinion about IFOR. Surveys conducted between December 1995 and December 1996 will give a picture of reasons, risks, images and evaluations, ascribed by the public to this mission.