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050 0 0 _aUA23
_b.H566 1985
100 1 _aHosmer, Stephen T.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aConstraints on U.S. strategy in Third World conflict /
_cStephen T. Hosmer.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1985.
300 _axiv, 136 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Project Air Force"--Cover.
500 _a"September 1985."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 131-136).
520 _aThis 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.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aMilitary history, Modern
_y20th century.
651 0 _aDeveloping countries
_xMilitary relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xMilitary relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary relations
_zDeveloping countries.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary relations
_zSoviet Union.
710 2 _aProject Air Force (U.S.)
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3208/
999 _c597396
_d597396