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This article examines the need of European countries to strength their military in order to deal with internal conflicts rather than relying on U.S. military intervention, and to stabilize the U.S. role as the world's only 'superpower'. The author also suggests that American military interventions in Europe are beyond its national self-interest and have negative consequences on its armed forces.

This article examines the methodology needed to assess U.S. arms control positions and nuclear force requirements, focusing on official policy, public proposals for nuclear disarmament, and analysis that should precede these recommendations. The panel of experts discuss changes in the post-Cold War era that have effect startegic planning, potential threats and requirements of deterrence, and the need to maintain offensive and defensive forces; the authors suggest that arms control should focus on consultation, coordination and transparency, rather than the traditional bipolar startegy of treaties of Mutual Assured Destruction perpetuated during the Cold War.

The United States has had infantry battalions serving six-month deployments as part of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert in support of the Camp David Accords since 1982. This is America's longest standing peacekeeping operation. This article, based on field observation, participant observation, and hundreds of individual and group interviews by an interdisciplinary group of researchers over a thirteen-year period, focuses on a set of these battalions to ascertain whether a mission culture is emerging among the regular army paratroopers and light infantrymen and National Guard infantry soldiers who have served on this mission. Although differences among units were observed, these soldiers interpreted the peacekeeping mission, and their roles as peacekeepers, in the context of the more martial missions of the army. Nonetheless, they all adapted to the mission and its norm of impartiality and performed it effectively.

'Come Partly Home, America' by Michael O'Hanlon, in Foreign Affairs (Mar.-Apr. 2001), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021. George W. Bush charged during last year's campaign that the [...]

A new field manual prepared by the JFK Special Warfare Center and School updates and expands Special Forces doctrine to prepare SF soldiers and their counterparts for operations in the [...]

The first decade of the new millennium promises to be a turbulent period for U.S. military institutions and for the militaries of the Western democracies generally. During recent months there [...]

AS AMERICA'S MIGHT IS CALLED TO EVER-MORE-DISTANT LANDS, THE ARMED FORCES ARE LEARNING TO BECOME MORE EXPEDITIONARY--LIGHTER, MORE MOBILE, MORE FLEXIBLE. If the Persian Gulf War showed the overwhelming power […]

When the Clinton Administration devised a strategy of "constructive engagement" to keep a turbulent world in check, it's doubtful officials foresaw how often the U.S. military would be called upon […]