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Aus jugoslawischer Sicht

"Die nordafrikanische Herausforderung an die westliche Staatengemeinschaft lässt auf die Geschichte der Interventionen blicken: Das britische und französische Vorbild könnten wegweisend sein." (Autorenreferat)

Doktrinen sind Ausdruck politischer Zielvorstellungen; sie bestimmen, in welchem Umfang Streitkräfte reduziert werden und weitere Abrüstungsvorschläge realisiert werden können. Der Autor plädiert für eine Klärung von militärischen Begriffen. Gleichzeitig tritt er ein für eine Überprüfung militärischer Führungskonzepte und von Gefecht und Taktik in Ost und West. Hierbei sollte insbesondere auf die Komponenten Defensivität und Offensivität geachtet werden. - K.Naumann: Generalmajor, Stabsabteilungsleiter Militärpolitik im Führungsstab der Streitkräfte, Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, Bonn. (SWP-Wgn)

The "Bush Doctrine," a new concept of national security developed in reaction to the September 11 attacks, emphasizes the necessity of preventive military action & societal transformation through active advancement of freedom & democracy, generating substantial controversy. This article offers four selections from the American magazine Commentary, which asked prominent authors to address the debate. In Two Premises, One Catastrophe. What Is Terrorism: Strategy or Totalitarian Ideology?, Paul Berman concludes that the Bush Doctrine is based on two incompatible premises, preemptive military action & an ideological counter-movement, & indifference & incompetence have suffocated efforts to correct past catastrophes & reduced the gigantic challenge of opposition to totalitarian & fascist movements to a simple question of American hegemony. In A Misleading Idea. Democracy Will Not Resolve the Problem of Terrorism, Francis Fukuyama sees the Bush Doctrine & its efforts to transform the Middle East as a false concept & as amplifying problems due to poorly conceived policies before & after the Iraq War, as democratization & modernization cannot alone resolve the causes of alienation & terrorism in regions that we hardly know & where we have limited political influence. In A Full Success. The USA has Secured an Overdue Upheaval, according to Victor Davis Hanson, despite media hysteria & unarguable mistakes in the implementation of US foreign policy & the war In Iraq, the Bush Doctrine shows success that could soon develop into enduring advances in the spread of democracy without the naive idealism of Wilson or the real-politics of the Cold War. In No Tired Titan. Rather Global Power with a Fundamental Feel for the Realities, Robert J. Lieber states that the Bush Doctrine fixes a visionary military strategy for the US, the logic & aims of which earn continued support despite some failures in execution, & are based on a fundamental feel for the current realities that is lacking in many critics. L. Reed