Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
In the case of the military component of a humanitarian intervention there are probably two or more phases. The first will be the need to stop the violence and in the places you and I know that means by using maximum violence. Once the perpetrators have been crushed you can swing over to the second phase and introduce different troops trained in civic action and all that stuff to take over and keep the peace and protect the civilian authority while they rebuild the place. The peacemakers go home after phase one. Not too many twenty-something year olds who can switch from killer-mode to kissing babies in an instant.
In my personnal experience, did try this in DRC through UN.
Full spectrum failure!
The pb is that no one is really keen in investing in phase 2 and even less in phase 1 on African soil, including African powers.
The main pb is to find an African army that is not committed to take advantage of the situation to do business first.