Stability Security Reconstruction and Transition Operations

This book examines how the United States''s extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints. Stability Security Reconstruction and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people places and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope. This book focuses on the period after the Cold War when U.S. operations proliferated but also outlines the development of U.S. strategic decisions on nation-building and stability operations in a chronological fashion providing documentation of these actions throughout American history. Original documents are provided and referenced to clarify concepts. With the increased attention on recent events in Iraq Afghanistan Egypt and Libya the United States''s actions and policies of nation-building are now a key public policy discussion topic and an understanding of these topics is critical for students scholars and general readers alike.