ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic purpose of Individual Augmentee Officers (IAOs) for junior partners in multinational military operations through an exploratory case study of Danish IAOs in Iraq and South Sudan between 2014 and 2017. IAOs are individual officers who are moved from their normal functions to be seconded to other units of the armed forces of their own or another country or an international institution. The study concludes that IAOs function as strategically important, yet not necessarily indispensable, supplements to military contingents in several ways: making tangible contributions to the overall mission (contributing), gaining access to information, knowledge, and experience (learning), and lobbying decision-making processes within mission headquarters (lobbying). The usefulness of IAOs depends on whether the junior partner has specific interests and a significant presence in the theatre and whether the mission is conducted as a UN mission, a NATO mission, or an ad hoc coalition.

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多国军事行动中初级伙伴个人增援军官的战略目的

摘要 本文通过对 2014 年至 2017 年在伊拉克和南苏丹的丹麦 IAO 的探索性案例研究，研究了个人增强军官 (IAO) 在多国军事行动中针对初级合作伙伴的战略目的。 IAO 是从其正常职能中转移出来的个人军官借调到本国或其他国家或国际机构的武装部队的其他单位。该研究得出的结论是，IAO 在以下几个方面作为军事特遣队的重要补充，具有战略重要性，但不一定是必不可少的：对整体任务做出切实贡献（贡献），获取信息、知识和经验（学习），以及游说决策- 任务总部内的制作过程（游说）。