Understanding peace operations: A reply to Col Robert C. Owen

From: Airpower Journal | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

IN "AEROSPACE POWER and Land Power in Peace Operations: Toward a New Basis for Synergy," which appears in this issue, Col Robert C. Owen makes some important points about peace operations, but I take exception to some of his views. Let me begin by defending the United States against Colonel Owen's accusation that all of our interventions are "imperialistic," "hegemonic," and "self-interested." (He starts out by accurately stating that foreign and domestic opponents of a US intervention will claim that such interventions are hegemonic, but then he seems to come around to this view himself.) ...

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