This Letort Paper covers U.S. military interventions in civil
conflicts since the end of the Cold War. It defines intervention as
the use of military force to achieve a specific objective (i.e.,
deliver humanitarian aid, support revolutionaries or insurgents,
protect a threatened population, etc.) and focuses on the phase of
the intervention in which kinetic operations occurred. The analysis
considers five conflicts in which the United States intervened:
Somalia (1992-93), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1995), Kosovo (1999), and
Libya (2011). It also reviews two crises in which Washington might
have intervened but chose not to: Rwanda (1994) and Syria
(2011-12). The author examines each case using five broad
analytical questions: 1. Could the intervention have achieved its
objective at an acceptable cost in blood and treasure? 2. What
policy considerations prompted the intervention? 3. How did the
United States intervene 4. Was the intervention followed by a Phase
4 stability operation? and 5. Did Washington...
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