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Synopsis
In 1994 Congress chartered a Commission on the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces to examine whether the existing roles and missions were adequate to meet the challenges of the post-Cold War era. After a year of study, the Commission delivered a comprehensive report in June 1995. Among the findings, it concluded that military forces should be prepared to do more than their traditional missions of deterrence and warfighting. The Commission determined that the military can and should play a larger role in crisis management and conflict prevention, more commonly known as peace operations.
This book, which presents the most salient papers prepared for the Commission on this topic, is a step toward that strategy. What is needed, according to the authors, is an overall American strategy for peace operations. The unifying theme is that peace operations are investments in stability - dealing effectively with "precursor" instabilities may avoid the need for more substantial forces and larger investments later. The opening chapter, for example, makes the case for raising the priority of peace operations, funding them in ways that do not undermine readiness, and integrating them into planning and training for regional contingencies. The subsequent papers address related issues.
This innovative, thought-provoking volume provides military planners and decisionmakers with options to improve the effectiveness of peace operations forces. Such operations are important, because it is nearly always less costly to prevent a war than to fight one. And preventing wars should always be the first recourse of diplomats and warriors.
Ervin J. Rokke
Lieutenant General, United States Air Force
President, National Defense University
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