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not be questions associated with military planning, but with analysis and policy
formulation. Our interventions in conflicts since the demise of the cold war have certainly
shown no weaknesses in our confrontation with Iraq during the Gulf War, but our
involvements in Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti have raised some important
questions about the appropriateness of military responses and about the seemingly ad hoc
nature of our involvements. As the world's most capable power, the US will face
increasing demands to become more involved in distant and diverse conflicts. Our
decision to do so cannot proceed situationally without perhaps unintentionally
exacerbating global instability. As the sole superpower in the world, and if we agree that
isolationism is not a realistic prospect, it is incumbent on the US to articulate its
conception of a global security order encompassing, not only military, but also
politicoeconomic security parameters. Doing so may not be an option, but a vital policy
requirement.
Notes
1 This phenomenon is elaborated in Karl P. Magyar and Constantine P. Danopoulos,
Prolonged Wars: A Post-Nuclear Challenge (Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University Press.
1994).
2 Michael Renner, “Budgeting for Disarmament,” in Linda Starke, ed., State of the
World, 1995 (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1995), 151.
3 See Thomas J. Stark, “Changing Status of Nuclear Forces,” in Karl P. Magyar, ed.,
Challenge and Response: Anticipating US Military Security Concerns (Maxwell AFB,
Ala.: Air University Press, 1994), 387-89.
4 Christian Science Monitor, 20 December 1994 and 12 January 1995.
5 Matthew Connelly and Paul M. Kennedy, “Must It Be the Rest Against the West?”
Atlantic Monthly, December 1994.
6 Max Singer and Aaron Wildavsky, The Real World Order (Chatham, N.J.:
Chatham House Publishers, Inc., 1993), 3.
7 Connelly and Kennedy, 72-76.
8 Jessica Tuchman Mathews, “Redefining Security,” Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989,
164.
9 Ibid., 166.
10 Sheldon Richman, “Cairo's Faulty Assumption,” Christian Science Monitor, 23
September 1994.
11 Adda B. Bozeman, “War and the Clash of Ideas,” Orbis 20, no. 1 (Spring 1976).
12 G. R. Berridge identifies a list of neo-Marxists who hold this view. See G. R
Berridge, International Politics: States, Power and Conflict since 1945 (New York:
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992), 62.
13 Karl P. Magyar elaborates on this idea. See Karl P. Magyar, “Culture and Conflict
in Africa's History: The Transition to the Modem Era,” in Stephen J. Blank et al.,
Conflict, Culture, and History: Regional Dimensions (Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University
Press, 1993), 231-33.
14 Zbigniew Brzezinski, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st
Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994), chap. 1.
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