Operational Considerations for War Termination

Abstract

Since World War II, the United States has participated in several conflicts that have been fought for limited objectives. The results of these conflicts, it can be argued, have been disappointing and illustrates the difficulty in terminating wars of limited objectives. analysis of war terminations issues from limited wars such as Korea, Vietnam, Panama, etc. have shown how difficult it has been in achieving a desired political objective or end state. Therefore, the lessons learned from these conflicts can be extremely important to operational commanders to insure that war termination considerations are addressed at the outset of hostilities and continues through post conflict operations. War termination, Political objective and end state.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 17, 1994
Accession Number
ADA283469

Entities

People

  • Roy R. Pinette

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Economic Sanctions
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Korean War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf War
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design