Peacekeeping And Related Stability Operations Issues Of U S Military Involvement

Author : Nina M. Serafino
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Current Events
ISBN : 1594542317

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One of the most crucial and difficult tasks in peacekeeping and related stability operations is creating a secure and stable environment, both for the foreign peacekeepers and for the indigenous population. During the past decade, the United States and the international community have tried various approaches to providing that security. Most of these approaches have included the use of United Nations International Civilian Police (UNCIVPOL), whose forces are contributed on a case by case basis by UN member states. (While other countries usually contribute police personnel from their own national forces, the United States contracts those it contributes through a private corporation). In a few cases, such as Afghanistan and Iraq at this time, coalition and US military forces, and not the United Nation, train and work with indigenous police forces to provide security. This book presents an up-to-date evaluation of current issues in peacekeeping.

Author : Nina M. Serafino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : International police
ISBN : OCLC:227908362

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Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement by Nina M. Serafino Pdf

The 110th Congress may well face several decisions regarding the preparation of U.S. military forces for stability missions, a major subset of which is peace operations. A November 28, 2005, Department of Defense (DOD) directive that designates stability operations as "core missions" of the U.S. military marks a major shift in attitudes regarding peacekeeping and related stability operations (also known as stabilization and reconstruction operations). Since then, DOD has worked to define specific changes that must be made to better accomplish such missions, some of which the U.S. military could implement on its own, while others would require Congressional approval. For well over a decade, some Members of Congress expressed reservations about U.S. military involvement in peacekeeping operations. The Bush Administration initially opposed such missions and took steps to reduce the commitment of U.S. troops to international peacekeeping. This action reflected a major concern of the 1990s: that peacekeeping duties had overtaxed the shrinking U.S. military force and were detrimental to military "readiness" (i.e., the ability of U.S. troops to defend the nation). Many perceived these tasks as an inefficient use of U.S. forces, better left to other nations while the U.S. military concentrated on operations requiring high-intensity combat skills. Others thought that the United States should adjust force size and structure to accommodate the missions.

Author : Nina M. Serafino,Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : International police
ISBN : OCLC:1050583377

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Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations by Nina M. Serafino,Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Pdf

The second session of the 109th Congress has begun to face decisions regarding the preparation of U.S. military forces for stability missions, a major subset of which is peace operations. The involvement of U.S. military in peacekeeping operations has been opposed by Members of Congress and the Bush Administration. A major issue Congress continues to face is what, if any, adjustments should be made in order for the U.S. military to perform peacekeeping and stability missions -- in Afghanistan, Iraq, or elsewhere -- with less strain on the force, particularly the reserves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055237043

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Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith D. Gerbick,Marjorie Ann Browne,Nina M. Serafino,Martin A. Weiss
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1600211437

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Peacekeeping and Stability Issues by Keith D. Gerbick,Marjorie Ann Browne,Nina M. Serafino,Martin A. Weiss Pdf

As the international political climate grows increasingly volatile, peacekeeping operations have become a mainstay in troubled regions. The alternative to military occupation is either to train indigenous police forces or to hire security corporations. Policy makers are worried that these forces are not capable of maintaining peace. In addition, moral and legal issues are factors for policy makers that are debating the extent to which peacekeeping forces should be allowed to infiltrate societies in turmoil. Other issues of concern that this book examines are the United States relationship with the U.N. and the World Bank as all three pursue their different responsibilities in peacekeeping.

Author : Karen Guttieri,Volker Franke,Melanne Civic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134715633

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Understanding Complex Military Operations by Karen Guttieri,Volker Franke,Melanne Civic Pdf

This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These challenges are exceedingly dynamic and complex because of the ever changing mix and number of actors involved, the pace with which the strategic and operational environments change, and the constraints placed on response options. This volume presents a series of case studies to inspire active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. The case studies highlight dilemmas pertaining to the story of the case (case dilemma) and to its larger policy implications (policy dilemma). The cases stimulate readers to "get inside the heads" of case protagonists with widely differing cultural backgrounds, professional experiences, and individual and organisational interests. Overall, Understanding Complex Military Operations challenges the reader to recognize the importance of specific national security related issues and their inherent dilemmas, deduce policy implications, and discern lessons that might apply to other – perhaps even non-security related – areas of public policy, administration, and management. This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict prevention, transitional justice, peacebuilding, security studies and professionals conducting field-based operations in potentially hazardous environments.

Author : Nina Serafino,Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Intervention (International law)
ISBN : OCLC:47953218

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Peacekeeping by Nina Serafino,Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service Pdf

Author : Jennifer M. Taw
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231153249

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Mission Revolution by Jennifer M. Taw Pdf

Jennifer Morrison Taw examines the military's sudden embrace of stability operations and their implications for American foreign policy and war.

Author : Nina M Serafino,Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053410080

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Peacekeeping by Nina M Serafino,Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Pdf

Author : Michael V. Bhatia
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565491649

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War and Intervention by Michael V. Bhatia Pdf

* Explains developments in recent peacekeeping operations and politico-military environments * Bridges the gap between peace and conflict scholarship * Highlights new aspects of war studies Following over a decade of substantial and extensive American military involvement, peace operations have passed from a position of strategic irrelevance to one of strategic importance. War and Intervention provides a snapshot of the contemporary environment of peace operations, in terms of both war and intervention. It also answers two broad questions: 1) What are key characteristics of armed competitors in the current environment of peace operations, particularly in terms of their structure and organization, financing, access to military resources, and the tactical tools and methods applied by these movements? And 2) What are key recent developments in the dimensions and methods of intervention, particularly regarding the use of force, the adaptation of global militaries to peace operations and the emerging political, legal and economic components of intervention? War and Intervention allows readers from a range of domains--military, academic, humanitarian, political, and diplomatic--to understand the priorities and methods of different actors in today’s peace operations.

Author : James J. Wirtz,Jeffrey A. Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134036585

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Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations by James J. Wirtz,Jeffrey A. Larsen Pdf

This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation. Mission accomplishment requires collaboration with a wide range of actors representing governmental, non-governmental and commercial organizations, which often creates politically and bureaucratically charged issues for those involved. However, although from a traditional warfighting perspective, stability operations might be viewed as having little to do with preparing for high-intensity conventional combat, these kinds of operations in fact correspond to traditional missions related to diplomacy, engagement, maritime domain awareness, piracy and smuggling, and intervention to quell civil disturbances. SSTR operations can be therefore depicted as a return to traditional naval operations, albeit operations that might not be universally welcomed in all quarters.

Author : Nina Serafino
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296050963

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Peacekeeping by Nina Serafino Pdf

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Author : Thomas S. Szayna,Derek Eaton,Amy Frances Richardson
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780833041906

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Preparing the Army for Stability Operations by Thomas S. Szayna,Derek Eaton,Amy Frances Richardson Pdf

In 2004-2006, the U.S. government acted to revise the way that the planning and implementation of Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) operations are conducted. The primary emphasis of the changes was on ensuring a common U.S. strategy rather than a collection of individual departmental and agency efforts and on mobilizing and involving all available U.S. government assets in the effort. The proximate reason for the policy shift stems from the exposing of gaps in the U.S. ability to administer Afghanistan and Iraq after the U.S.-led ousters of the Taliban and Ba'athist regimes. But the effort to create U.S. government capabilities to conduct SSTR operations in a more unified and coherent fashion rests on the deeper conviction that, as part of the U.S. strategy to deal with transnational terrorist groups, the United States must have the capabilities to increase the governance capacities of weak states, reduce the drivers of and catalysts to conflict, and assist in peacebuilding at all stages of pre- or post-conflict transformation. According to the Joint Operating Concept for Military Support to SSTR operations, these operations are civilian-led and conducted and coordinated with the involvement of all the available resources of the U.S. government (military and civilian), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international partners. Although military assets are an essential component of many SSTR operations, specific military goals and objectives are only a portion of the larger SSTR operation.

Author : Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Ronald W. Johnson,Richard Hill
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781584874096

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Guide to Rebuilding Public Sector Services in Stability Operations by Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Ronald W. Johnson,Richard Hill Pdf

"This guide examines the role of restoration of public services within the broader context of stability operations. The extent to which public service reconstruction takes place depends on the mission, the level of resources, and the host country context. This paper provides guidance helpful to U.S. peacekeeping personnel in planning and executing stability operations tasks related to restoration of public sector services and infrastructure. It is designed to supplement existing and emerging guidance, and is specifically relevant to addressing the needs of public sector rebuilding in a post-conflict situation by peacekeeping forces. The material presented here draws both from theory and analytic frameworks and from on-the-ground experience of practitioners."--Page [v].

Author : Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Ronald Wayne Johnson,Richard Benton Hill
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584873945

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Guide to Rebuilding Governance in Stability Operations by Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Ronald Wayne Johnson,Richard Benton Hill Pdf

This guide is designed to further U.S. military understanding of the critical nation-state building role that U.S. forces play during stability operations. It focuses on the military's role in rebuilding and establishing a functional, effective, and legitimate nation-state; one that can assure security and stability for its citizens, defend its borders, deliver services effectively for its populace, and is responsible and accountable to its citizens. It provides a comprehensive approach to planning and implementing a program to rebuild governance by U.S. peacekeeping forces during stability operations. Recognizing that the extent of U.S. Government and military involvement is determined by the mandate, the mission, the level of resources and most importantly, the host country context, this guide provides options and trade-offs for U.S. forces in executing these operations.