ABSTRACT
Considerable originality and innovation were required in order to design "from scratch" an apparatus that would organize and oversee the new international force. The organizers were presumably interested in shaping the MFO into an independently functioning multinational entity. Understandably, Egypt and Israel may have had reason to be concerned about the force enjoying too much independence. The force itself could be modeled on the prototype of UN forces, but in the absence of an institutional superstructure like the UN Secretariat, a new international institution had to be molded, with a command structure formulated, and with operating procedures and rules of engagement drawn up.
