Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such sentiments were widespread in Aidid's Mogadishu neighborhoods, which meant the U.N. was winning the battle against the warlord but losing the war to coax a workable society out of Somalia's anarchy. At the White House, the . motive for intervention was simple: to restore respect for the blue...
Their professionalism has come at a terrible price. The soldiers' cemetery begun in the village of Rahic a year ago contains 370 graves today. Grief is constant: for every funeral, the whole village turns out. Even so, Muslim soldiers do not call for military intervention from abroad. Just lift the...
The military, however, is changing as it never has before, much as is society, in the post-Cold War era. Budgets are being downsized and rules of intervention changed to include justifications of morality. An old, tradition-bound structure is changing, and some say it should change even further.
The Serbian rejection of the Vance- Owen peace plan confirms what may have thought al along: The Serbs not will stop until thay are forced to stop. It is now the job of the West to coerce them into accepting peace. The immediate goal of intervention is top the aggression...
The response must be collective and international. The leadership of the United States may propel the U.N. into action, but action, but the U.N. must take overriding responsibility for the operations. Intervention will not be simple, quick or cost- free- the world has waited far too long for that. But...