Nation Assistance: A Tool for Promoting Peacetime Engagement in Latin America.

Abstract

Nation assistance was instrumental in developing and preparing the battlefield for a United States foreign policy in Latin America during the 20th century. Perhaps this resource intensive tool is no longer effective or needed in promoting the peacetime engagement tenet of the Clinton Administration's National Security Strategy. This paper demonstrates that nation assistance could be the most viable and productive vehicle that the DoD has in Latin America to influence political, economic and military environments in the young democracies of Latin America. This study reviews the past successes of this program, the future threats to Latin America and our national interests, and recommends to the Administration and Congress, from three options, that the government put more resources into this cost-effective plank of the foreign security policy of our nation in the fertile but fragile democracies of Latin America.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1996
Accession Number
ADA309387

Entities

People

  • Robert G. Dinsick

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civic Action
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Economic Development
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Societies
  • United States
  • United States Southern Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies