Reasons for Going to War

      The following are some excerpts from the book, Intervention, the 
Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World. The book was 
authored by Richard N. Haass under the aegis of the Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace (sic) in 1994. This probably won him membership in 
the Council on Foreign Relations where he was the principal author of 
the 1996 Study, "Making Intelligence Smarter," re intervention and 
intelligence by the CIA. There is great deal of dissembling and
Orwellian newspeak in both productions.

   The various types of intervention. NATION BUILDING -- or peace building 
is an extremely intrusive form of intervention one that seeks to bring 
about political leadership and, more important, procedures and institutions 
different from those that exist. requires a monopoly on the use of force until
authorized indigenous units can be created to assume this responsibility.
it can require occupation. 

   Deterrence -- persuasion of one's opponent that the costs and/or 
risks of a given course of action he might take outweigh its benefits. 
Preventative attacks -- uses of force to stop another state or party 
from developing a military capability before it becomes threatening or 
hobble or destroy it thereafter. 

   Compellence  -- uses of force that are discreet, consciously limited 
uses of force to sway decision making. punitive attacks -- uses of 
military force designed to inflict pain and cost. 

   Peacekeeping -- involves the deployment of unarmed or at most 
lightly-armed forces in a peaceful environment, normally to buttress 
a fragile or brittle political arrangement between two or more 
contending parties. 

   War-fighting -- the high end of intervention. Peace-making -- those 
activities falling between peace-making and war-fighting,
in environments neither permissive nor hostile but uncertain. 
 
   Interdiction -- involves the discrete and direct use
of force to prevent specified equipment, resources, goods, or persons from
reaching a battlefield, port, or terminal. it can be done to enforce
sanctions. 

   Humanitarian assistance -- involves the deployment of forces
to save lives without necessarily altering the political context.
rescue operations are a form of humanitarian intervention. Indirect
uses of force -- involves providing military assistance in the form of 
training, arms, intelligence, etc., to another party so that may employ 
force directly for its own purposes.  

   Technology--tv, computers, telephones, faxes - increases 
the scope and impact of communications across state borders, making it
much more difficult for gvts to control what their citizens know.
intervention, the use of American military force in the post-cold
war world 4.

   A number of political and technological developments
enhance opportunities for the U.S. to use its military might effectively.
the erosion of blocs and alliances makes it easier to use force against
individual states. today's critique is that intervention, including
military intervention by outsiders, is legitimate and even necessary.
the U.S. has frequently used military force -- both during and since the 
end of the cold war. use of U.S. warplanes in the Philippines in December 
1989. 

Source: INTERVENTION, THE USE OF AMERICAN MILITARY FORCE IN 
THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD, by Richard N. Haass. (1994).