This book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints.
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Definitions of Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: Past and Present
2 Operations in the Past: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Security, Stability, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations
CRS Report on Use of U.S. Forces Abroad, 1798–1993
Date: October 7, 1993
Jefferson's Secret Message Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Date: January 18, 1803
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Date: December 5, 1905
Commencement Speech Introducing the Marshall Plan
Date: June 5, 1947
Address at a White House Reception for Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics
Date: March 13, 1961
Executive Order 10973
Date: November 3, 1961
3 The New World Order
An Agenda for Peace, Preventative Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping
Date: June 17, 1992
Article by Colin Powell, "Why Generals Get Nervous"
Date: October 8, 1992
National Security Directive 74
Date: November 24, 1992
Address to the Nation on the Situation in Somalia
Date: December 4, 1992
4 The Clinton Administration and Stability Operations, 1993–2001
Presidential Review Document 13: Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations (declassified)
Date: February 15, 1993
Remarks on Welcoming Military Personnel Returning from Somalia
Date: May 5, 1993
President Clinton Addresses Nation on Somalia
Date: October 7, 1993
Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD 25)
Date: May 7, 1994
Address to the Nation on Implementation of the Peace Agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina
Date: November 27, 1995
Presidential Decision Directive 56 (PDD 56): Managing Complex Contingency Operations, Signed by William Jefferson Clinton
Date: May 1997
Remarks to Genocide Survivors in Kigali, Rwanda
Date: March 25, 1998
Remarks Announcing Airstrikes Against Serbian Targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
Date: March 24, 1999
Essay "A Just and Necessary War" by Bill Clinton
Date: May 23, 1999
Address to the People of Colombia
Date: August 24, 2000
5 Pre and Post 9/11: The Bush Administration
Excerpts from October 3, 2000 Presidential Debate
Date: October 3, 2000
Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11
Date: September 20, 2001
Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange with Reporters
Date: November 19, 2001
President Bush Addresses Virginia Military Academy
Date: April 17, 2002
President Bush's Remarks to the United Nations
Date: September 12, 2002
National Security Strategy 2002
Date: September 17, 2002
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
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
A Unified Mission for Post-hostilities Iraq
Date: April 2003
Address to the Nation on Iraq from USS Abraham Lincoln
Date: May 1, 2003
President George W. Bush Second Inaugural Address
Date: January 20, 2005
Department of Defense Directive 3000.05
Date: November 28, 2005
National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD-44
Date: December 7, 2005
The National Security Strategy March 2006
Date: March 16, 2006
Iraq Study Group Report
Date: December 2006
Speech by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Funding for All Aspects of National Power
Date: November 26, 2007
U.S. Assistance to Colombia
Date: 2008
6 Now What? The Obama Administration
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates National Defense University's Distinguished Lecture Program
Date: September 29, 2008
Secretary Gates' Follow on Questions and Answers at National Defense University
Date: September 29, 2008
Army Field Manual 3—Stability Operations
Date: October 2008
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Date: December 1, 2009
Department of Defense Instruction 3000.05: Stability Operations
Date: September 16, 2009
United Nations Security Council Resolution #1973 (S/Res/1973): The Situation in Libya
Date: March 17, 2011
Remarks by the President on the Way Ahead in Afghanistan
Date: June 22, 2011
7 Conclusions
Resources
Index
About the Author :
Cynthia Watson is professor and chairwoman of Department of Security Studies at the National War College, Washington, DC.
