U.S. Intervention Policy for the Post Cold War World: New Challenges and New Responses by Linton F. Brooks

by Arnold Kanter

s/ New Challenges & New ResponseWith the end of the Cold War, the USA faces the challenge of new & more complicated military interventions. In today's smaller scale ethnic & intranational disputes, USA forces must play more of a peacekeeper role than deliver massive firepower. How will the military adapt forces & strategies to the new environment? What new techniques are available for enforcing economic sanctions? What nonlethal & less lethal technologies can be used or developed instead of force? In this collection of original essays, sponsored by the American Assembly, some leading American military policy experts examine these questions, paying special attention to recent trouble spots, such as Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti & the former USSR. They offer a framework for evaluating a decision whether or not to intervene.A typology of post-cold war conflicts/Coit D. BlackerChallenge & coercive intervention issues/Wm H. Lewis Adapting conventional military forces to the new environment/John O.B. SewallNew applications of nonlethal & less lethal technology/Richard L. GarwinNew approaches to economic sanctions/Kimberly Ann Elliott, Gary Clyde HufbauerNew techniques of political & economic coercion/Timothy R. SampleA framework for interventionism in the post-cold war era/Fareed ZakariaOrganizing the government to provide the tools for intervention/James G. Roche, Geo E. Pickett Jr

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First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 2 out of 5]

I believe I read the eight essays in this collection at the Panini, Panini cafe in the East Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. Having been delivered in April of 1994, they appear now to be prescient.