When a country engages in military operations, whether defensive or offensive, with another country or other countries, it must follow a specific timetable for crisis management procedures. In the following analysis we will show how a crisis and information management system must be organized and function properly, and what should be the procedures for implementing a crisis and information management doctrine of a country.
The enemy of good is always the best. However, we believe that this analysis can help many countries that have or want to create such a mechanism.
Schedule of Crisis Management Procedures
- The threats of the states and the organizations that support them are officially published.
- Meeting of the National Security Council of the country to determine the political objectives, the political-economic measures, the strategy to be followed as well as the measures of psychological warfare and security respectively that will be implemented.
- Cabinet meeting.
- Meeting of the National Parliament, with the aim of authorizing the government to conduct operations abroad.
- Presence of the Chiefs of General Staff in units located near the border and will be involved in operations.
- Influence of the International Community in cooperation with neighboring countries, as well as with regional and global forces at political, diplomatic, economic and military level.
- Meetings of the Security Council with the participation of the President of the Republic, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Ministers of Interior, Foreign Affairs and National Defense respectively as well as the Commander of the Intelligence Service of the country.
- Mobilization of the country’s media and the country-funded Media abroad to support the National Purpose. The aim is to promote the military power and the argument of the country which will include Agreements, Treaties to certify the legitimacy of the country’s positions.
- Promotion of the country’s positions in the media by analysts with many years and deep knowledge of the subject in terms of the effects that the rival country will have, showing its vulnerabilities.
- Coordination of all state bodies, NGOs and cultural-political associations.
- Initiation of psychological warfare, in order for a part of the local population of the rival country or the rival countries, which has friendly feelings towards the country, to cause internal unrest within the rival country.
- Demonstration of military power through exercises, display of weapons systems and more.
- Take financial measures. Issuance of travel instructions by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country.
- Evaluate the country’s vulnerabilities and take measures for their immediate restoration and elimination.
Information and Crisis Management System
The doctrine of crisis management should be based on the rule that the country should have a well-organized information system so that when a crisis occurs, its leadership can make the right decisions.
- Information requirements include the following areas of information: political, military, scientific, technological, geographical, economic, sociological, transport, communications, personalities.
2. Information System Organizational Structure
a. Coordination Committees
b. State Bodies
c. Information Training Bodies
3. Information Analysis
Information Coordination Committees:
- The National Intelligence Coordination Committee meets at least once a quarter or extraordinarily when required and consists of:
- The Chairman of the Committee (who is usually the President of the Republic or the Prime Minister of the country depending on who is the leader of the executive),
- its Secretary General National Security Council,
- The Undersecretaries of relevant Ministries,
- Directors of Information Directorates of security agencies (police, Security Administration, Coast Guard, etc.),
- Head of National Intelligence Service,
- Directors of Security Directorates,
- Secretariat of the National Security Council.
- Counter-Terrorism Coordination Committee,
- Cyber Security Committee,
- Supreme Committee against Drugs,
- Smuggling Information Coordination Committee,
- Economic Crime Coordination Committee.
State Information Bodies
- State Information Coordination Center of the Presidency of the Republic
The purpose of this Center is to monitor all developments in the country and abroad, through the information transmitted by all information agencies in the country. Then the information material is evaluated, analyzes are made and relevant reports and assessments are submitted. Therefore, the President of the Republic or the head of the executive power of the country has a direct perception of everything that happens in the country and abroad in real time.
- National Intelligence Service, which reports directly to the head of the executive branch of the country (President of the Republic or the Prime Minister) and includes the following addresses:
- Directorate of Strategic Analysis,
- Directorate instead of Information,
- Directorate of Foreign Operations,
- Directorate of Security Information,
- Directorate of Electronic and Technical Media Information,
- Directorate of Electronic Communication Systems and Radar,
- Center for Information Studies and Monthly Statistics,
- The Ministry of Interior,
- Directorate-General for Security Studies and Issues Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
- Directorate of Economic Crime Investigations of the Ministry of Finance,
- Directorate of Telecommunications and Communications of the Ministry of Transport,
- General Directorate of Customs and Trade Protection,
- Information Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces,
- Information Training Bodies.
Crisis Management System
A Crisis Management Center should be set up in the Presidency of the Republic, in order to minimize the time for decision-making, on the other hand the President of the Republic, or whoever is in charge of the executive power of the country, should be able to have a complete picture of the situation. This Center should be staffed in each shift from 100 to 150 people who will come from the Presidency of the Republic, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Ministries, the National Security Council, the National Intelligence Service and the Competent Public Bodies.
The four main areas of the Center should be:
a.Map Room,
b.The Major Crisis Management Center,
c.The Minor Crisis Management Center,
d.Special Meeting Room.
The Crisis Management Center in the Presidency of the Republic is supported by information from the State Information Coordination Center of the Presidency of the Republic. The situations managed by the Crisis Management Center in the Presidency of the Republic are divided into four categories:
- Definition and targeting by the Foreign Policy of the country of those who plot its territorial integrity, sovereign rights, National goals and national interests of the country.
- Situations and incidents aimed at the overthrow of the Constitution, the disruption of internal order and security such as cyber warfare attacks, terrorist acts, biological, chemical, nuclear attacks respectively, strikes, as well as incidents that refer to the diversity of nationalities and religions, dogmas.
- Natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, fires, hurricanes), large-scale accidents, population movements, refugee flows, epidemic diseases and economic crisis.
- In the event of failure to contain the crisis or situations where there are escalating risks and threats, the Crisis Management Center of the Presidency of the Republic will be able to be transformed into a Business Center, having previously imposed either a state of emergency or martial law in the country or mobilization and state of war.
