Waging Peace: The Clausewitzian Dimensions of Peace Enforcement Operations

摘要

As a treatise on human behavior, Clausewitz' classic On War provides insights that we can apply to a variety of fields beyond the battlefield (e.g., policy, management, education). Without taking the master too far astray, the aim of this paper is to see what lessons we can draw from Clausewitz' theoretical framework pertaining to one of the most prominent and controversial uses of U.S. military force in the post-Cold War era, peace enforcement operations. This paper argues that there is much we can understand about peace enforcement operations (PEO) from a Clausewitzian point of view. Not only does Clausewitz' analysis of war have much in common with this form of 'non-war', but his approach also helps bring into focus the tensions between the political and military objectives of PEO. In particular, this offers us a new perspective on the problems of PEO termination planning and the military's unease in performing these missions.