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Curing The Cure That Failed
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8/31/2015 5:24:09 AM
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Nate Dog
Interesting paradigm shift
8/31/2015 6:23:26 AM
It would appear that state funded national armies being loaned out to the worlds largest central authority for considerable sums of money is fast replacing the private armies that used to get so much business out of colonial wars. Perhaps campaigning has become such an expensive business, it takes truly large organisations to field adequate combined armies to be able to win campaigns.
Unless we see Black Water, or whatever it calls itself these days, or some other equivalently large private army manages to combine cheap UAV's with heavy ground support troops then this trend isn't likely to change any time soon. Perhaps we'll see some independent armies start to specialise as alternative airforce units? I feel a little out of my field here.
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Mountaintroll
Peace KEEPERS, Not Peace MAKERS
8/31/2015 1:28:19 PM
The only time UN Peacekeepers are useful is when they're separating two forces who genuinely don't want to fight, and are looking for an excuse not to. If the UN wants to end a conflict, the only way to do it is to pass a Security Council resolution, and send in a Great Power military to kill people and break things until all sides are willing to make peace just to get them to go away again. After that the UN can send in Peacekeeper forces (of which the Great Power militaries should not be a part, for obvious reasons). If the UN is not willing to do this, they should stay out and let the locals settle their own affairs. If local affairs threaten to spread to other areas, go back to the Security Council. Repeat as necessary.
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Nate Dog
when was the last time locals settled their own affairs?
8/31/2015 9:36:57 PM
The Assad's are nothing more than a Proxie post soviet Novu Russo franchise.
South Sudan exists because some very strange deal in the elicit Israeli military industry needed an emerging market, so boom, we have a new artificial proxy country formed.
Yemen fell apart because Iran decided things were going a little too well for the Sunni world so time to sow some discord.
On and on it goes. Letting the locals sort their own mess out hasn't been a realistic scenario for a good long while.
I think the UN is trying to prevent too many more of these irrelevant parochial brush wars from spreading misery.
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