These papers are from the international conference held at the Inter-American Defense College in 1992, on the question of what military warriors should do in peacetime. The intent of the meeting was to provide insights to US policy-makers in a period of geopolitical transition, and covered a range of military affairs and security relations: the roles and mission of militaries; military profesionalism; civil-military relations in democracy; how to deal with terrorism and insurgency; the pros and cons of the drug war; Central America; human rights; and the response of Washington to the...

This volume commends itself to the reader to provoke thought about what governments and international organizations ought to do when faced with the responsibilities of a given peace operation. Equally important, it suggests what we as citizens in the world community ought to demand of our governments and that community in the current world disorder.
The intent is to help decision-makers, policy makers, opinion-makers and students understand the nature of the problem that is likely to provide the greatest challenge to international security management into the next century.