Military Aid to Civil Authorities

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Contains three articles examining various aspects of military aid to civilians. Addresses the categorization of conflict, lessons in command and control learned from the Los Angeles riots, and military involvement in the drug war. Charts and tables.

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Page 86 - That the glory of this world in the end is appearance leaves the world more glorious, if we feel it is a show of some fuller splendour; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.
Page 113 - Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.
Page 114 - To this end, the study is sponsored jointly by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SO/LIC) and the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (DOS/R).
Page 111 - Coll egewhere he held the Maxwell D. Taylor Chair of the Profession of Arms. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He...
Page 111 - Stroup is also a graduate of the US Army War College, the US. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College as well as the Engineer School Basic and Advanced Courses.
Page 112 - ... consumes the majority of the illegal drugs and commits the majority of drug-related crimes. About two-thirds of these hard-core users come in contact with the criminal justice system every year. Of more than 20,000 adult, male arrestees tested in 1994 under the Drug Use Forecasting program, 66 percent tested positive for use of at least one drug at the time of arrest.
Page 88 - Police officers responded to a domestic dispute, accompanied by marines. They had just gone up to the door when two shotgun birdshot rounds were fired through the door, hitting the officers. One yelled 'cover me!
Page 76 - He holds master's degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in systems management from the University of Southern California.
Page 79 - ... commonly referred to as war. Primarily, this means open war, but it can also include a wide variety of less-violent disagreements or confrontations. The US military, however, has historically focused on one form of violent, organized, conflict — conventional war. The army's manual for operations defines war as "A state of open and declared armed hostile conflict between political units such as states or nations...
Page 79 - ... operations other than war," just such questions may not always arise. As the nation begins the 21st century the strategist should take seriously Michael Howard's suggestion. "It is quite possible," Howard says, that war in the sense of major, organized armed conflict between highly developed societies may not recur, . . . Nevertheless violence will continue to erupt within developed societies as well as underdeveloped, creating situations of local armed conflict often indistinguishable from traditional...

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