Winning the Peace
The Strategic Implications of Military Civic Action
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Military Civic Action--U.S. troops working on nation-building tasks with troops of another country--is traced from its formal beginning under President Eisenhower and enthusiastic reception under President Kennedy, through its successes and failures during the Vietnam years, to its present status as a strategic tool. Contributing authors debate the future role of Military Civic Action as a way to retain a U.S. military presence around the world, bolster emergent democracies, assist other militaries in their transition to democratic military professionalism, reinforce the humanitarian efforts of USAID and private volunteer organizations, train U.S. units for worldwide flexible missions, and protect the world from environmental degradation and the scourge of drug abuse. Although this volume draws on the history of U.S. Military Civic Action around the world, special emphasis is placed on Latin America as the ideal focus for Military Civic Action during the 1990s. The authors argue that Military Civic Action is among the most cost effective ways of achieving U.S. strategic objectives while retaining and justifying the expense of a skilled, professional U.S. military force. Military Civic Action incorporates some of the deepest-held U.S. values and is a tool that can win the support of liberals and conservatives alike. Nonetheless, in order for it to be successful, Military Civic Action must be integrated into a fully articulated national strategy in which the Congress, the President, and the appropriate federal bureaucracies have reached consensus. This book will be of interest to military professionals and political scientists interested in foreign and defense policy.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Understanding Civic Action
- 2 The Role of the Total Army in Military Civic Action and Humanitarian Assistance: A Synopsis
- 3 The Africa Civic Action Program
- 4 Civil-military Operations and the War for Political Legitimacy in Latin America
- 5 Civic Action versus Counterinsurgency and Low-intensity Conflict in Latin America: The Case for Delinkage
- 6 The Latin American Military, Lowintensity Conflict, and Democracy
- 7 Reserve Component Role in Civic and Humanitarian Assistance
- 8 A Planner's Guide for the Employment of Civil Affairs in Latin America
- 9 Medical Civic Action in Low-intensity Conflict: The Vietnam Experience
- 10 The Strategic Implications of Military Civic Action
- 11 Military Civic Action in the 1990s: A Forecast
- 12 Winning the Peace
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors