Infrastructure projects in hostile environments: NATO utilizing in-house resources vis-á-vis multinational businesses

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION3

1.1 Theortical Background of the Study3

1.2 Purpose of the Study3

1.3 Research Questions3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW4

2.1 Historical Background4

2.2 Mission Areas4

2.3 Defense Technology Collaboration in NATO5

2.4 NATO Infrastructure Common Funding5

2.5 NATO Production and Logistics Organizations6

2.6 The NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency7

2.7 Working Process7

2.7.1 The basic principle of NAMSA operations is centralization.7

2.8 NATO Depot & Support System8

2.9 NATO Logistics Stock Exchange9

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY10

3.1 Research Design10

3.2 Literature Search10

3.3 Research Method10

3.4 Limitation of the Study11

REFERENCES12

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Theortical Background of the Study

After the end of World War II, nations quickly quit dreaming about eternal peace on earth, when the soviet aggression was moving westward and suppressing the liberated east-European countries. Facing the military thread, in 1949 twelve 12 western countries in Europe and northern America founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO. Since suffering from severe war destructions, the nations were focussing on the development of the economy and had limited capacities to build up their own armies (International, 2012, online). While the equipment of the Wehrmacht and the Axis forces was abandoned quickly - production factories and maintenance facilities were destroyed or dismounted - the United States kept own forces and equipment deployed in Asia and Europe. The U.S. also equipped and trained the allied European national forces. Doing this, the first knowledge transfer was conducted in the early NATO organisation, and first steps of interoperability were implemented.

1.2 Purpose of the Study

The study is primarly focusing of the infrastructure projects that implemented in hostile environment. Secondly the role of NATO is been focued in order to determine how NATO is taking measures relating to the Infrastructure projects in hostile environments. Also analyze the utilization of in-house resources and multinational businesses for developing gand implementing hostile infrastructure projects.

1.3 Research Questions

Following are the research questions for the proposed study:

How NATO is utlizing in house resources and multinational businesses for the development of infrastructure projects.

What role NATO plays for the Infrastructure projects in hostile environments?

How they fund their infrastructure projects?

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Historical Background

After the end of World War II, nations quickly quit dreaming about eternal peace on earth, when the soviet aggression was moving westward and suppressing the liberated east-European countries. Facing the military thread, in 1949 twelve 12 western countries in Europe and northern America founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO (Havel, 2002: 29). Since suffering from severe war destructions, the nations were focussing on the development of the economy and had limited capacities to build up their own armies. While the equipment of the Wehrmacht and the Axis forces was abandoned quickly - production factories and maintenance facilities were destroyed or dismounted - the United States kept own forces and equipment deployed in Asia and Europe. The U.S. also equipped and trained the allied European national forces. Doing this, the first knowledge transfer was conducted in the early NATO organisation, and first steps of interoperability were implemented.

2.2 Mission Areas

Today, NATO has 26 member nations ...