Cultural embeddedness refers to âthe role of shared collective understandings in shaping economic strategies and goalsâ (17). Structural embeddedness is defined, following Granovetter, as âthe contextualization of economic exchange in patterns of ongoing interpersonal rela- tionsâ (18).
Joint doctrine addresses a broad range of military operations, including crisis response. and limited contingency operations. Peace operations (PO) are a type of joint operation (called. peace support operations [PSO] in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] alliance).
Missions in any environment require Army forces prepared to conduct any combination of these operations: 1  Offensive operations aim at destroying or defeating an enemy. 2  Defensive operations defeat an enemy attack, buy time, economize forces, or develop conditions favorable for offensive operations. Defensive operations alone normally cannot achieve a decision. Their purpose is to create conditions for a counteroffensive that allows Army forces to regain the initiative.