Selective Intervention - Rethinking America's Strategic Employment of Force

Abstract

In the absence of a "war of survivability" and the lack of true political support for military interventions in the near term, it has become imperative that policy makers shape future decisions to commit forces to conflict with a realistic concept of the time requirements needed in achievement of a suitable end-state.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 2008
Accession Number
ADA507823

Entities

People

  • Brian D. Bernth

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Cold War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • International Organizations
  • Intervention
  • Marine Corps
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • War
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies