ABSTRACT
When nations join military coalitions, they bring valuable contributions with them, such as assets or resources not possessed by other partners; or essential basing and overflight rights. The goal of a coalition operation is to achieve unity of effort such that the partnership is greater than the sum of its parts. Partner contributions are molded into a multinational force to project seamless capabilities that are, in theory at least, invulnerable to exploitation by an opposing force – a result known as “interoperability.”
