The MARO Project goals are both to develop a widely shared understanding of the specific and unique aspects of mass atrocities and genocide and to create a common military approach (within the context of a comprehensive approach) to addressing these challenges. The Project also aims to build the lexicon, habits, and relationships that will facilitate future international responses to mass violence. It hopes to educate and catalyze the interagency community to develop parallel non-military concepts and tools. Efforts to prepare for the more complex and demanding operations would ideally help prompt the national leadership toward preventive action that would reduce the need for a MARO. And in the event that a MARO were necessary, the Project's work should better prepare the US military, the US interagency, and the wider international community to respond effectively.