Contingency planning

Contingency planning

It involves preparing likely courses of action dealing with a range of potential scenarios; and extends into preparatory activities (preparation of maps, identification of sources of equipment and supplies, prepositioning of communications and identification of possible troop contributing states)

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Category: Peace keeping
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