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Peacekeeping Facts and Figures : American Contributions-Personnel
- "The Important Thing for Me is Being There"
-- [Global Policy Forum] (May 9, 2003)Freelance journalist Linda Polman records her observations of peacekeeping missions in Haiti and Somalia. She blames wealthy Security Council members for lacking the will to properly fund and equip these peacekeeping teams.
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- Do You Know Where Your Soldiers Are?
-- (9/12/99) "For the 60th time since President Clinton took office, American troops are being sent into potential combat."
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- Enhancing International Civilian Police in Peace Operations
-- [Global Policy Forum] (April 22, 2002) The growing importance of civilian police in peacekeeping operations has not been matched by adequate changes in US capacity to conduct such missions. The Bush administration has not shown initiative despite the potential usefulness of civilian police in counter-terrorist operations.
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- Peacekeeping Revisited, Again
-- "Before the Iraq war, the Peacekeeping Institute at the U.S. Army War College was just one more vestige of the Clinton years that Donald Rumsfeld intended to consign to the dustbin of history. Now, with U.S. forces stretched thin in Iraq, the peacekeeping institute has received a reprieve of its Oct. 1 death sentence.
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- U.S. Pulls Forces From 2 U.N. Missions
-- (July 2, 2004) The U.S. military will pull tiny contingents out of two U.N. peacekeeping missions because they are no longer exempt from international prosecution for war crimes, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
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- U.S. Pulls Peacekeepers. Prudent Step Or Petulant Response?
-- The two operations from which the U.S. is pulling troops are in Kosovo and Eritrea. The numbers of U.S. personnel being pulled is not particularly significant - a total of nine U.S. servicemen are being reassigned. However, the message being sent is that, if you insist on holding our servicemen responsible in your court and you do not believe we would take responsibility for prosecuting crimes, then you can do without our servicemen and women.
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- Wider Mission Stretches Military
-- [Global Policy Forum] (May 2, 2002) Chasing terrorists around the globe is putting a strain on the US military. The US Defense Secretary argues that the US should cut involvement in “non-military duties” such as international peacekeeping so the military can engage in “real” military duties.
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