Warning Time for U.S. Forces' Responses to Situations: A Selective Study

Abstract

The issue is whether warning times for U.S. responses to situations are so short that the U.S. must maintain forces overseasat land bases or at seain order to respond in a timely manner. We judged the length of warning time crudely: from the time a situation broke on the world scene until a U.S. operation began. As described below, "breaking on the world scene" might be an incident or attack happening out of the blue, but more often involves a precipitating incident in a local situation in which the U.S. Government did not contemplate military intervention when the situation first appeared (e.g., Lebanon).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2002
Accession Number
AD1014527

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  • Henry H. Gaffney

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  • Center for Naval Analyses

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