When America fights: the uses of U.S. military force

Introduction : Military force in the post-Cold War environment. Policy disarray

Toward a new first principle

The structure of the book and of the argument

1. Policy adrift : The causes of inertia in national security policy

The contemporary environment

The new environment : a world of tiers

The paradigm problem

2. Thinking about strategy in a new environment : The factors conditioning strategy

Strategic orientations : the U.S. self-perception

Conclusion

3. The menu of violence : Employments of necessity

Employments of choice

Conclusion

4. The dilemmas of involvement : Reasons for the lack of consensus

The nature of peacekeeping operations and possible outcomes

Realistic actions : conflict suppression or state building

The operational level

Conclusion

5. Peace games? : Contemporary influences on grand strategy

A strategy of realistic internationalism

Guidelines for intervening in internal wars

Precipitating factors

Minimum conditions for approving intervention

Conditions for a successful operation

Institutional adjustments

Conclusion

Appendix A. UN Resolution 1244 (1999)

Appendix B. Kosovo chronology

Appendix C. Select UN and NATO peacekeeping deployments.