In September 1994, Lawrence P. Rockwood, then a counterintelligence officer with the U.S. Army's Tenth Mountain Division, was deployed to Haiti as part of Operation Restore Democracy, the American-led mission to oust the regime of Raoul Cedras and reinstall President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after arriving in-country, Captain Rockwood began receiving reports of human rights abuses at the local jails, including the murder of political prisoners. He appealed to his superiors for permission to take action but was repeatedly turned down. Eventually, after filing a formal complaint with...

This book discusses the limitations of the practice of imposing no fly zones and considers the potential utility of a no fly zone in the case of Syria.

Imposing no fly zones on governments that use force from the air against their own people has been a practice of the United States since the closing days of the first Iraq war. A no fly zone was imposed on Iraq from 1991 to 2003, on Bosnia from 1993-1995 and on Libya for three months in 2011. No fly zones have come to be viewed as an easily feasible, moderately costly, acceptably risky, essentially nonviolent form of intervention...