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Colombia And The United States--The Partnership: But What Is The Endgame?, Myles R. R. Frechette Ambassador
Colombia And The United States--The Partnership: But What Is The Endgame?, Myles R. R. Frechette Ambassador
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American Ambassador to Colombia, 1994-97, Myles R. R. Frechette provides authoritative, eloquent, and impassioned perspectives on both the achievements and failures of American and Colombian efforts. He argues that American policy made analytical errors that need to be rectified, including underestimating the long-term complexity and interrelated nature of the problem, while both nations overestimated the amount of support that Colombia would receive from the international community. Moreover, nation-building and the rule of law are strategic imperatives which American policy must take seriously. Finally, it is critical to appreciate that Colombian cultural characteristics sharply influence what Colombians will do on their …
The United States And Colombia: The Journey From Ambiguity To Strategic Clarity, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
The United States And Colombia: The Journey From Ambiguity To Strategic Clarity, Gabriel Marcella Dr.
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American strategy towards Colombia has shifted from a counternarcotics focus to more comprehensive support for that nation's security. This shift recognizes that Colombia's problems are deeply rooted and go beyond illegal narcotics. In the last year the Bush administration committed the United States to help Colombia defend democracy and to defeat the illegal armed groups of the left and right, doing so by promising to help that nation extend effective sovereignty over national territory and provide basic security to the people. The author identifies the strategic challenge of Colombia within the framework of the weak state and ungoverned space, made …
Strategic Effects Of Conflict With Iraq: Latin America, Max G. Manwaring Dr.
Strategic Effects Of Conflict With Iraq: Latin America, Max G. Manwaring Dr.
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The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key states in their region are taking on U.S. military action against Iraq; the role of America in the region after the war with Iraq; the nature of security partnerships in the region after the war with Iraq; and the effect that war with Iraq will have on the war on terrorism in the region.
Mapping Colombia: The Correlation Between Land Data And Strategy, Geoffrey Demarest Dr.
Mapping Colombia: The Correlation Between Land Data And Strategy, Geoffrey Demarest Dr.
Monographs, Collaborative Studies, & IRPs
The mapping of Colombian national territory, however, is fundamental to the problem of control of national territory. As a threshold matter, policy, strategy, and military asset management in contemporary conflict in virtually any unstable part of the world must deal with the problem of governance in "lawless areas." Unless a central government such as that in Colombia can exert legitimate control and governance in the 60+ percent of the municipalities not under its control, there can be no effective judicial system and rule of law; no effective legal crop substitution programs; no effective democratic processes; and, only very little military …