The world is now being treated to the spectacle of a U.S. president determinedly pursuing a policy toward Haiti predicated upon a man whom the American intelligence community believes to be a psychotic manic depressive and involving a use of the armed forces opposed by senior military commanders.
So at the other end of the spectrum is a more modest intervention - perhaps an extended version of the air strikes that currently accompany the US and British policing of the no-fly zone, but with greater use of special forces to target suspected weapons depots and military installations.
In evaluating the QDR force structure, we were hampered by the lack of a clearly articulated force-planning construct that the military services and Congress can use to measure the adequacy of U.S. forces.
United States Armed Forces are detaining in Afghanistan approximately 946 individuals under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40) as informed by the law of war.
He also argued that the RAF offered a "flexible political and military tool", whose use was often less costly in every sense than the large-scale commitment of ground forces.