United States, Weapons & Warfare, Engineering, Arms Control, Diplomacy, National & International Security, Military, International Relations, Military Sciences 

Questions of when, where, and how the United States should use military force abroad dominated the foreign-policy debate during the Cold War and promise to do the same in its aftermath. Richard Haass traces the evolution of this critical debate, taking into account the impact of new technologies, new states, new weapons, and new thinking about new sovereignty and intervention. He assesses where the US should be prepared to use force in the future, what this entails, and what constitutes a proper division of labour between the US, regional organizations, and the UN. 

This new edition of the Carnegie Endowment bestseller—selected by Choice as "an outstanding academic book of 1995"—now also discusses the interventions in Haiti and Bosnia, the 1998 crisis (and earlier skirmishes) with Iraq, and the decision to not intervene to halt apparent genocide in Central Africa.In the core original study, which draws upon twelve cases—including Somalia, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, and the Gulf War—Richard Haass suggests political and military guidelines for potential U.S. military interventions ranging from peacekeeping and humanitarian operations to preventive strikes and all-out warfare. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS

1 The Debate Over Intervention ................................................p. 1

2 Recent Cases of U.S. Intervention ........................................p. 19

3 The Vocabulary of Intervention ................................................p. 49

4 Whether to Intervene ................................................................p. 67

5 How to Intervene ................................................................p. 87

6 Revisiting the Past ................................................................p. 101

7 Considering the Future .........................................................p. 123

8 Conclusion .................................................................................p. 153

Afterword: Summer 1994 to Summer 1999 ...................................p. 157
Appendices
A. Charter of the United Nations ...................................................p. 183

B. War Powers Resolution ...........................................................p. 191

C. The Uses of Military Power Caspar W. Weinberger .....................p. 197

D. The Use and Usefulness of Military Forces in the
Post-Cold War, Post-Soviet World Les Aspin .....................................p. 207

E. U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead Colin L. Powell .............................p. 215

F. Remarks at the U.S. Military Academy George Bush ..............p. 223

G. Confronting the Challenges of a Broader World Bill Clinton ......p. 229

H. The Clinton Administration's Policy on Reforming
Multilateral Peace Operations ............................................................p. 233

I. Defining Missions, Setting Deadlines: Meeting New
Security Challenges in the Post-Cold War World Anthony Lake ..............p. 247

Notes ...................................................................................p. 259

Acknowledgments ....................................................................p. 287

Index ...................................................................................p. 289