Joint Task Force - Bravo - A Mode for Forward Presence

Abstract

The Gulf War served notice that the world remains a dangerous place in spite of the end of the Cold War and the decline of the Soviet Union. The enduring legacy of the Cold War seems to be worldwide arms proliferation as both superpowers armed Third World client states to the teeth. As a result, more nations are armed with more lethal weapons than ever before to include weapons of mass destruction and the ballistic missile technology to project them beyond their borders. Exacerbating this destructive potential is the convergence of emerging regional tensions previously suppressed by the Cold War superpowers with regional power vacuums created by the implosion of the Soviet Empire and the resulting United States military drawdown. The bottom line is that the Third World looms as a potential battleground.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1992
Accession Number
ADA250546

Entities

People

  • Wayne W. Boy

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Classification
  • Cold War
  • Command And Control
  • Europe
  • Military Science
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • United States European Command
  • United States Pacific Command
  • United States Southern Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.