02726cam a2200457 i 4500 rnd000000000047398 RAND 920212s1985 cau b 000 0 eng d 84022274 083300610X (pbk.) RAND/R-3208-AF (Sirsi) a188491 $30.00 CstmoR CstmoR n-us--- e-ur--- d------ UA23 .H566 1985 Hosmer, Stephen T. author. Constraints on U.S. strategy in Third World conflict / Stephen T. Hosmer. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1985. xiv, 136 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia unmediated n rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier volume nc rdacarrier "Project Air Force"--Cover. "September 1985." Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136). This report assesses the military and political constraints imposed on U.S. strategy and combat operations in past Third World conflicts and crises. It also explores the implications of such constraints for the design of strategies to meet future communist challenges and identifies the requirements that particular constraints may pose for Air Force missions. The motivations that lead decisionmakers to constrain U.S. military responses stem primarily from the concern to control the risks of military conflict with the USSR, limit civilian and U.S. military casualties, seek negotiated solutions to conflicts, and accommodate the policies of other nations. Likely constraints must be taken into account in future U.S. intervention decisions and contingency planning. The United States must pursue strategies that will force early war termination and allow it to enforce the subsequent peace. The Air Force must anticipate being called upon to generate the military leverage to force war termination and to provide tactical air support to indigenous forces. Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format. Description based on print version record. Military history, Modern 20th century. Developing countries Military relations United States. Soviet Union Military relations United States. United States Military policy. United States Military relations Developing countries. United States Military relations Soviet Union. Project Air Force (U.S.) Rand Corporation. United States. Air Force. Online Access http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3208/ 597396 597396