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CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY DAREN BOWYER JUST WAR DOCTRINE

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Security Council and Members or between the Security Council and groups<br />

of Members……. 56<br />

Planning and direction for the use of these forces was to be the responsibility of the<br />

Security Council, aided by the Military Staff Committee, provided for in Article 47:<br />

1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to advise and assist<br />

the Security Council on all questions relating to the Security Council's<br />

military requirements for the maintenance of international peace and<br />

security, the employment and command of forces placed at its disposal, the<br />

regulation of armaments, and possible disarmament.<br />

2. The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the Chiefs of Staff of the<br />

permanent members of the Security Council or their representatives. Any<br />

Member of the United Nations not permanently represented on the<br />

Committee shall be invited by the Committee to be associated with it when<br />

the efficient discharge of the Committee's responsibilities requires the<br />

participation of that Member in its work.<br />

3. The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under the Security<br />

Council for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal<br />

of the Security Council. Questions relating to the command of such forces<br />

shall be worked out subsequently.<br />

4. The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of the Security<br />

Council and after consultation with appropriate regional agencies, may<br />

establish regional sub-committees. 57<br />

Had these two elements come to fruition then the Security Council would have had the<br />

‘teeth which the League had so conspicuously lacked and which the UN, it was<br />

believed, would require if it were to be an effective agent for peace enforcement.’ 58 The<br />

importance attached to the issue might be gauged from the fact that it is the subject of<br />

the Security Council’s very first Resolution 59 , which requested that the Permanent<br />

Members direct their Chiefs of Staff, or their representatives, to meet in London in<br />

February 1946 as the Military Staff Committee and there ‘draw up proposals for its<br />

organization.’ 60 This it did, subsequently meeting from March onwards in New York.<br />

It was immediately apparent, however, that the degree of consensus evident at<br />

Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco on the principle of providing forces to the UN,<br />

would not translate into agreement about the mechanics of that provision or the size and<br />

shape of the force. Whilst there was agreement on certain basic issues, that the<br />

contingents would remain part of their own national forces, for example, rather than<br />

constituting a fully international and directly recruited force, differences emerged on<br />

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