British and French generals, who led the campaign, rightly paid much attention to the interception of supplies to pro-Qaddafi forces, successfully weakening them over time.Most important, NATO avoided "mission creep", the dread of modern military forces.
The moderator of the discussion, journalism professor Ann Cooper, asked how the journalists avoided "mission creep," where they took more dangerous decisions than they should have.
These were: to establish sustainable peace and security in Sierra Leone, to support UNAMSIL operations, to prevent another humanitarian disaster in Freetown, to see the release of captive UN personnel, and finally to avoid British casualties and devise an exit strategy that avoided "mission creep" without undermining UNAMSIL or the Sierra Leonean government.
Therefore, the data communication line with SpaceWire, the power supply line, and the spin index pulse line all have redundant systems to avoid whole mission failure when there is a fault at an interface point between the bus and the mission.
But as Stephen Walt counsels, let's avoid a "Mission Accomplished" moment.
Such measures could create positive pressure to deliver, avoid the "mission creep" that occurs when organisations chase funding to sustain themselves, and reduce the self-preservation biases that generate resistance to change.
D the political "exit strategy" definitely secured,to avoid premature "mission accomplished" celebrations.
But there's one play style she tends to avoid: stealth missions, like those in Uncharted or Metal Gear Solid, where the player's main goal is to avoid detection.
That would let them avoid picking a mission that had an appealingly low cost because it wasn't yet fully fleshed out.
Instead of foreseeing the inevitable civil war and potential regional fallout from the growing humanitarian tragedy, the West Wing has issued firm instructions to any and all in the Obama administration to avoid any inadvertent mission creep that would push the U.S. into a Libyan-style involvement in Syria.
