The U.S. has pledged to provide as much aid as possible to the people of Haiti after an earthquake devastated the small nation earlier this week. and has already began to move an aircraft carrier, Coast Guard cutters and a Marine unit into the area. Unfortunately, there are significant issues preventing the crisis management effort from getting underway at full strength, as this quote from a Canada.com article demonstrates:
…the initial U.S. effort was being hampered by a near total loss of communications in Haiti and substantial concerns over the conditions at the Port-au-Prince airport, parts of which were badly damaged when the 7.0 earthquake struck on Tuesday afternoon.
With so much damage done to the infrastructure of the country, it will take a lot of work to simply coordinate communications among those providing aid.
The BCM Blogging Team
https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/