Meeting the Challenges of Regional Security

Abstract

The author, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Leonard Sullivan, maintains that in the post-cold war world, old alliances, structured for containment, will not be adequate. Instead, regional security apparatuses (RSAs) will be needed to deal with problems which issue from specific socio-cultural and economic conditions, rather than from ideology or the pursuit of traditional national interests by the superpowers. These RSAs will be charged with the collective enforcement of international laws and standards, as well as those specific to the regions involved. He concludes that the technologies developed during the cold war may be used by appropriately structured RSA forces in meeting the challenges of the 'new world disorder.' Regional security apparatuses (RSAs), Paramilitary forces, Nonmilitary forces, Interstate conflict, Ethnically-based nations, World disorder.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA277538

Entities

People

  • Leonard Sullivan Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Economic Sanctions
  • International Law
  • Military Organizations
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Radar
  • Terrorists
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Economics
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.