by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, PDA Research Monograph #4, October 1995. 141 pp. 11 figures. 13 tables.
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Reviews the problems of contemporary peace operations, recent reform proposals, and the requirements for successful operations. Includes a detailed proposal for enhancing and reorganizing the capacities of the UN to support and direct peace operations and for establishing a UN legion of three brigades.
Selections from Vital Force are also available in HTML format:
- Executive Summary, Table of Contents, and Preface;
- Review of Selected UN Staff Reform Proposals;
- The Logic of Peace Operations: Implications for the Force Design; which examines the differences between conventional warfare and peace operations and derives a logic for distinguishing the particular military requirements of peace, operations.