Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps no one will find a single strategic concept or a template to fit all situations. "I think it's very unlikely," says Powell. "I think that as these situations arise they will be dealt with on an ad hoc basis and in the politics of the time." That means...
Interventions in the gray areas the Pentagon calls "operations other than war" are hardest to explain. General John Shalikashvili, Powell's successor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is the man who directed the operation that provided refuge to the Kurds in Iraq, and he does not shrink from similar...
A great many Americans feel that way now, and are worried that Bosnia will be followed by other interventions. During the cold war the U.S. was involved, willy-nilly, in every conflict in the world. But at the same time Washington had to be cautious about where it sent troops...
Now that the superpower rivalry has ended and the danger of thermonuclear war has abated, the theory could be put into practice. International legal scholars even began toying with new approaches to intervention, suggesting that the world might have a right to take action against a government that was committing...
If Americans rejected intervention in Somalia because their vital interests were not at stake, will they accept intervention in Bosnia? One way to persuade them to go along with the deployment, of course, is to argue that America's vital interests are at stake in Bosnia. The Administration has tried...