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In response to the likelihood that the United States will, in the foreseeable future, deploy its armed forces to defend new and/or unstable democratic governments that face violent internal threats, experts of varied backgrounds assess the challenges that will result from this deployment and examine relevant experiences of some key foreign nations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Force, Peace, and Democracy by Harvey Sicherman
From Counterinsurgency to Peacemaking: New Applications for an Old Approach by Thomas R. Mockaitis
Can Traditional UN Peace Keeping Be Saved? by Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr.
The Changing Face of Insurgency in the Post Cold War Era: Doctrinal and Operational Implications by Stephen Sloan
The U.S. Army Experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Challenges for Now and the Future by Max G. Manwaring
U.S. Unconventional Warfare Doctrine, Policies, and Operations: Experiences and Lessons from Central America, 1980-1990 by Alfred R. Barr and Caesar D. Sereseres
Defeating Shining Path: Strategic Lessons for the Future by Enrique Obando
The United States, Japan, and the Defense of Democratic States in the Western Pacific by Peter J. Wooley
State and Armed Forces in Russia: Toward an African Scenario by Stephen Blank
Altering the Icon: The Americans and Guerrilla War by Anthony James Joes
Index

About the Author

ANTHONY JAMES JOES is Professor of International Relations at Saint Joseph's University. His previous works include Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical, Biographical, and Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1996), Gerrilla Conflict Before the Cold War (Praeger, 1996), Modern Guerrilla Insurgency (Praeger, 1992), The War for South Viet Nam (Praeger, 1989), and From the Barrel of a Gun: Armies and Revolutions (1986).