Regime Change: Planning and Managing Military-Led Interventions as Projects
Oct 2006, Vol. 151, No. 5
By Marcus Fielding
While the experience in Iraq has generated a degree of political caution in the West towards mounting military-led interventions, it will inevitably only be a matter of time before fading memory and circumstances reverse this reluctance.
This article offers a conceptual construct for military-led interventions. It first considers the nature of military-led interventions intended to effect regime change, and then develops a conceptual construct for reconstruction and societal reform that intervention forces can apply at the national, provincial and local levels of a society.
Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Fielding currently serves as the Australian exchange instructor at the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He participated in the 1994 US-led intervention in Haiti and the 1999 Australian-led intervention in East Timor. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and the Australian Army Command and Staff College.
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By Marcus Fielding
While the experience in Iraq has generated a degree of political caution in the West towards mounting military-led interventions, it will inevitably only be a matter of time before fading memory and circumstances reverse this reluctance.
This article offers a conceptual construct for military-led interventions. It first considers the nature of military-led interventions intended to effect regime change, and then develops a conceptual construct for reconstruction and societal reform that intervention forces can apply at the national, provincial and local levels of a society.
Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Fielding currently serves as the Australian exchange instructor at the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He participated in the 1994 US-led intervention in Haiti and the 1999 Australian-led intervention in East Timor. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and the Australian Army Command and Staff College.
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