Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues: A Guide to the Issues

by Cynthia A. Watson

Overview

Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope.

This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations proliferated, but also outlines the development of U.S. strategic decisions on nation-building and stability operations in a chronological fashion, providing documentation of these actions throughout American history. Original documents are provided and referenced to clarify concepts. With the increased attention on recent events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Libya, the United States's actions and policies of nation-building are now a key public policy discussion topic, and an understanding of these topics is critical for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313353253
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/20/2012
Series:	Praeger Security International
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	568 KB

About the Author

Cynthia Watson is professor and chairwoman of Department of Security Studies at the National War College, Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Abbreviations xv

1 Definitions of Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: Past and Present 1

2 Operations in the Past: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Security, Stability, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations 11

CRS Report on Use of U.S. Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 Date: October 7, 1993 11

Jefferson's Secret Message Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition Date: January 18, 1803 37

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Date: December 5, 1905 40

Commencement Speech Introducing the Marshall Plan Date: June 5, 1947 42

Address at a White House Reception for Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics Date: March 13, 1961 45

Executive Order 10973 Date: November 3, 1961 50

3 The New World Order 57

An Agenda for Peace, Preventative Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping Date: June 17, 1992 58

Article by Colin Powell, "Why Generals Get Nervous" Date: October 8, 1992 87

National Security Directive 24 Date: November 24, 1992 90

Address to the Nation on the Situation in Somalia Date: December 4, 1992 91

4 The Clinton Administration and Stability Operations, 1993-2001 95

Presidential Review Document 13: Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations (declassified) Date: February 15, 1993 95

Remarks on Welcoming Military Personnel Returning from Somalia Date: May 5, 1993 103

President Clinton Addresses Nation on Somalia Date: October 7, 1993 107

Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD 25) Date: May 7, 1994 112

Address to the Nation on Implementation of the Peace Agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina Date: November 27, 1995 127

Presidential Decision Directive 56 (PDD 56): Managing Complex Contingency Operations, Signed by William Jefferson Clinton Date: May 1997 134

Remarks to Genocide Survivors in Kigali, Rwanda Date: March 25, 1998 135

Remarks Announcing Airstrikes Against Serbian Targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) Date: March 24, 1999 140

Essay "A Just and Necessary War" by Bill Clinton Date: May 23, 1999 146

Address to the People of Colombia Date: August 24, 2000 149

5 Pre and Post 9/11: The Bush Administration 157

Excerpts from October 3, 2000 Presidential Debate Date October 3, 2000 158

Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 Date: September 20, 2001 161

Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange with Reporters Date: November 19, 2001 168

President Bush Addresses Virginia Military Academy Date: April 17, 2002 169

President Bush's Remarks to the United Nations Date: September 12, 2002 174

National Security Strategy 2002 Date: September 17, 2002 181

Dispute between Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki and Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Paul Wolfowitz over Post-invasion Troop Strength Date: February 25-27, 2003 'l85

Transcript of Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers, USAF Date: April 11, 2003 187

A Unified Mission for Post-hostilities Iraq Date: April 2003 205

Address to the Nation on Iraq from USS Abraham Lincoln Date: May 1, 2003 217

President George W. Bush Second Inaugural Address Date: January 20, 2005 221

Department of Defense Directive 3000.05 Date: November 28, 2005 226

National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD-44 Date: December 7, 2005 236

The National Security Strategy March 2006 Date: March 16, 2006 240

Iraq Study Group Report Date: December 2006 255

Speech by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Funding for All Aspects of National Power Date: November 26, 2007 262

U.S. Assistance to Colombia Date: 2008 272

6 Now What? The Obama Administration 275

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates National Defense University's Distinguished Lecture Program Date: September 29, 2008 275

Secretary Gates' Follow on Questions and Answers at National Defense University Date: September 29, 2008 288

Army Field Manual 3-Stability Operations Date: October 2008 298

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan Date: December 1,2009 328

Department of Defense Instruction 3000.05: Stability Operations Date: September 16, 2009 338

United Nations Security Council Resolution #1973 (S/Res/1973): The Situation in Libya Date: March 17, 2011 340

Remarks by the President on the Way Ahead in Afghanistan Date: June 22, 2011 347

7 Conclusions 353

Resources 357

Index 369