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Surrogate Armies: Redefining the Ground Forces

Surrogate Armies: Redefining the Ground Forces

Naval War College

Paperback

Series: Defense

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1500840882
ISBN13: 9781500840884
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 15 2014
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
To accelerate the Taliban's removal from power in Afghanistan, the U.S. has allied itself with a loose coalition of ethnic groups under the banners of the Northern Alliance, Eastern Alliance, and southern Pashtun tribes. This union provided a backhanded strike at the Taliban regime by re-igniting a ground war with only a modest deployment of U.S. ground forces. While the operation in Afghanistan falls under the mantle of war, U.S. foreign policy has grappled with smaller engagements throughout the world. In many cases, these deployments reflected important or humanitarian national interests as opposed to vital national interests. Whereas operations in pursuit of vital national interests might clearlywarrant the use of our armed forces and the accompanying risk of casualties, interventions on lesser grounds tend to divide the nation in debate over the requisite costs in blood and treasure. Consequently, our national altruism and desire to erase injustices from the world is tempered by an equally fervent intolerance for prolonged conflict and excessive casualties. Surrogate armies bridge this gap.

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