Come Over to Macedonia and Help Us. (Acts 16:9).

Abstract

Post-Cold-War calls for improving collective security through conflict prevention, as opposed to post-conflict crisis response, led in 1993 to establishment of the United Nation's first preventive deployment in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The command includes a United States peacekeeping task force under UN operational control. This study explores the successes and failures of the preventive mission, proving that conflict prevention is both possible and cost effective, but also uncovering doctrinal contradictions associated with applying traditional peacekeeping structures and doctrine to a new-era interventionist peace operation. Analysis of the United States' role in conflict prevention indicates that problems with US-UN command and control continue to plague combined missions, undermining international will to intervene for collective security.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1996
Accession Number
ADA309531

Entities

People

  • Howard F. Kuenning

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Cold War
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of State
  • Doctrine
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • New York
  • Task Forces
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • Universities
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control