Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the U.S. Military

Reveron, Derek S.

ISBN 10: 1589017080 / ISBN 13: 9781589017085

Published by Georgetown University Press (edition ), 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the U.S. Military
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589017080
• ISBN 13: 9781589017085
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This book describes and explains the noncombat missions that are now a high-priority part of the U.S. military's duties and analyzes the strategic rationale behind using the military in this way. The decline of interstate war, the rise of transnational threats, and the perils of allowing states to fail are largely behind this trend. Addressing today's security challenges requires international partnerships and for militaries to work with civilian agencies, NGOs, and the private sector both at home and abroad. Security assistance to friendly countries is now a key pillar of U.S. military strategy, which places American officers and non-commissioned officers in over 150 countries training, mentoring, and professionalizing other militaries. The impetus for this is the belief that capacity building sets the conditions for conflict prevention and that there is a global need for capable military partners to serve in peacekeeping operations, to control their own territory, and to preserve regional stability. The enormous resources and manpower of the military is also now seen as a tool for humanitarian, diplomatic, development, and scientific missions. The missions range from officers serving as presidential envoys, to educating foreign officers, to working on fishery conservation, to monitoring the migration of fish stocks in response to climate change. To be sure, swords haven't been beaten into plowshares, but military capabilities are increasingly being used for cooperation, development, and the promotion of peace.

About the Author

Derek S. Reveron is a professor of national security affairs and the EMC Informationist Chair at the U.S. Naval War College. He is coeditor of Inside Defense: Understanding the 21st Century Military and Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, and is editor of America's Viceroys: The Military and US Foreign Policy.