OPENING SPEECH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL VINCENT DESPORTES
Commander of the Forces Employment Doctrine Center (CDEF)

• Multinational Operations and Forces Command - Persuasion and Trust

LESSONS LEARNT FROM MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS AND FORCES COMMAND :

• Constants and Prominent Features

AN HISTORICAL BASIS :

• French General Officers in Multinational Forces or Operations
• The Allied Armies on the Oriental Front and the Learning of Multinationality (1915 -1918)
• The Imaginary Account of Ferdinand Foch, Field Marshal of Great Britain and Poland, the First Allied Commander and the Man of the 1918 Victory

ACCOUNT OF FRENCH GENERAL OFFICERS WHO COMMANDED A MULTINATIONAL FORCE OR OPERATION

• The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Former Yugoslavia. The Account of General (Ret) Jean COT
• Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) in Bosnia. The Account of Lieutenant General (Ret) André SOUBIROU
• The Multinational Division South-East (MND-SE) in Bosnia. The Account of Lieutenant General (Ret) Robert RIDEAU
• The Multinational Force in Kosovo (Kosovo Force - KFOR). The Account of British General (Ret) Mike JACKSON
• The Account of Lieutenant General Yves de KERMABON
• The First Operation of the European Union in Macedonia (CONCORDIA). The Account of Major General Pierre MARAL
• The European Union Operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Account of Major General Bruno NEVEUX
• The International Security Assistance Force (FIAS) in Afghanistan. The Account of Lieutenant General Jean-Louis PY
• Task Force 150 (TF 150) within Operation PAMIR. The Account from Vice Admiral (Ret) Jacques MAZARS

SOME DOCTRINAL DOCUMENTS :

• Some Doctrinal Documents about Command of Multinational Operations