INTRODUCTION 1
1.A BRIEF HISTORY OF U.S.DIRECT MILITARY INTERVENTION 12
2.PRECONDITIONS FAVORING THE SUCCESS OF MILITARY INTERVENTION IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA A Typology 29
3.OPERATION JUST CAUSE The Invasion of Panama 41
4.OPERATION DESERT STORM Iraq and the Liberation of Kuwait 69
5.OPERATION RESTORE HOPE Humanitarian Relief in Somalia 105
6.OPERATION ALLIED FORCE The Air War in Kosovo 141
7.EVALUATING THE INTERVENTIONIST TYPOLOGY 209
EPILOGUE The “Somalia Syndrome” and the War on Terror 236
Bibliography 249
Index 255