ism operations. Readiness requires rapid deployment of troops
in response to a crisis, while sustainability requires effective
logistics support to maintain military operations. Readiness
will be realized with well-trained troops, effective command,
control, intelligence, and the implementation of an efficient
human resource system. The rapid deployment of troops and
the sustainment of logistics requires the development of prepositioning stockpiles in peacetime, and the strategic placement
of troops in the mission phase. The RSFs hope to achieve this
operation capability in 2015. The fundamental cause affecting
both readiness and sustainability, is the lack of an adequate AU
LOGBASE structure.
Burundian troops serving with the African Union Mission
in Somalia (AMISOM) man frontline positions in territory
captured from insurgents, in Deynile District, in the northern fringes of Somali capital Mogadishu.
17 November 2011, UN Photo/Stuart Rice
the Eastern and Western RSFs.26 The Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) became operationalized at the end of 2014,
and its member states include: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and
Djibouti. These states gained experience through their participation in AMISOM, which greatly enhanced their operational
capabilities.
Since its establishment in Western Africa in 1992, ECOWAS
has retained a military structure called the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG).
ECOMOG intervened in civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone,
and Côte d'Ivoire. The ECOMOG was repla