Soldiers and civil power: supporting or substituting civil authorities in modern peace operations

Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
PART I: THE CIVIL-MILITARY INTERFACE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY OPERATIONS......Page 24
The Operational Primacy of Civil Affairs......Page 26
Integrating or Segregating Civil Affairs......Page 29
Military Government Moves Center Stage......Page 33
Effects of Military Pragmatism......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 45
Imperial Policing......Page 46
Malaya: Integrating the Civil and Military Spheres......Page 52
Vietnam: Lessons Unlearned......Page 61
The Return to ‘Ordinary Soldiering’......Page 67
Towards Civil-Military Peace Operations......Page 70
PART II: COMPLEX PEACEKEEPING: THE UNITED NATIONS IN CAMBODIA......Page 74
Peacekeepers in the Post-Cold War Disorder......Page 76
The Paris Peace Agreement......Page 81
The Unworkable Military Mandate......Page 84
Segregated Missions......Page 94
Winning the Hearts and Minds......Page 97
Police Monitors......Page 104
Banditry in Banteay Meanchey......Page 107
Stretching the Mandate......Page 113
Changing the Guard......Page 117
Flexible Response......Page 126
‘Military Coup’......Page 129
Protecting the Elections......Page 136
Peace at the Ballot......Page 147
Successes, Failures and Lessons......Page 153
Peace Operations after UNTAC......Page 157
PART III: AMERICAN INTERVENTIONS: SEGREGATING THE CIVIL AND MILITARY SPHERES......Page 160
Hobbesian Anarchy......Page 162
Limits of US Military Intervention......Page 169
Cosmetic Success......Page 175
Attitude Adjustment......Page 181
The Public Security Vacuum......Page 187
Benevolent ‘Mission Creep’......Page 192
The Legacy of the Marines......Page 200
Urban Security Operations......Page 207
Two Schools of Thought......Page 214
Counterinsurgency Reflex......Page 223
The Military Governor of Baidoa......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 239
The Dayton Accord......Page 246
The Public Security Gap......Page 254
Reinterpreting the Military Mandate......Page 264
CIMIC: The Fig Leaf for the Gap......Page 276
Conclusion......Page 285
PART IV: KOSOVO: MILITARY GOVERNMENT BY DEFAULT......Page 288
Stepping into the Void......Page 290
The Mandate......Page 296
Task Force Orahovac......Page 298
Taming the Kosovo Liberation Army......Page 303
‘Anarchy, or Something Not Far from It’......Page 312
Policing without Instructions......Page 316
Controlling the Streets of Orahovac......Page 322
Different Approaches......Page 332
Makeshift Police......Page 325
The Justice Triangle......Page 337
Russians......Page 344
Beleaguered Serbs......Page 347
War Crimes......Page 353
Arrests......Page 357
Controversy......Page 361
Local Administration......Page 370
Struggle for Control......Page 375
Public Services......Page 385
Ad Hoc Civil-Military Cooperation......Page 392
The Complex Civil-Military Playing Field......Page 400
Unity of Effort......Page 410
Conclusion......Page 416
Primary Sources and Bibliography......Page 432
Glossary and Military Terminology......Page 450
Notes......Page 454