Saving lives with force : military criteria for humanitarian intervention / Michael O'Hanlon.

In this book, military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal challenge.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: O'Hanlon, Michael E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1997.
Series:Brookings studies in foreign policy ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction. The need for outside military combat forces
  • 2. Planning and conducting an intervention. Establishing lodgments. Establishing strongholds. Neutralizing hostile forces and extending control
  • 3. Mandates, exit strategies, and mission duration. When not to intervene. To nation-build, nation-divide, negotiate, or neutralize? Basic elements of nation-building and nation-repairing
  • 4. Costs and casualties. Budgetary costs. Casualty estimates.