Saving Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention

by Michael E. O'Hanlon

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

Based largely on recent U.S. experiences in Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and elsewhere, as well as on U.S. military doctrine and information from the Pentagon's training and simulation centers, the book discusses the steps in an intervention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815764472
• ISBN13: 9780815764472
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"