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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I INTRODUCTORY FRAMEWORK AND HOMELAND DEFENSE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions and Classifications for Military Operations Other than War (MOOTW) -- 3. The Challenge: Domestic Homeland Defense -- 4. The State Territorial Brigade-Homeland Defense, Support to Domestic Authorities, and Catastrophe Management -- 5. The State Frontier Brigade-Border Control and Support to Domestic Law Enforcement Authorities -- 6. Federal Disaster Relief Brigade-Rapid Deployment Homeland Defense and Catastrophe Support -- 7. The Airport Brigade-Critical Installation Security -- SECTION II SMALLER-SCALE CONTINGENCIES -- 8. The Challenge: Expeditionary Stability Operations -- 9. Light Dragoon Brigade-Constabulary, Peacekeeping, and Peace Operations -- 10. Fireforce Brigade-Counterdrug/Counterinsurgency -- 11. Airborne-Air Assault Brigade-Noncombatant Evacuation Operations, Shows of Force, Attacks and Raids -- 12. Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Given the nature of global counterinsurgency operations, the demands of military expansion, and the need for cultural, linguistic, and regional expertise, the United States Army should evaluate the establishment of US-led foreign troop units for its evolving force structure. This article proposes the creation of an American foreign legion based upon the recruitment of US-led, ethnically homogeneous tribal force units to meet the grist mill of counterinsurgency operations. This structured approach would be more beneficial than the current reliance on a de facto American Foreign Legion, represented by private military contractors (PMCs), many of them comprised of foreigners. These PMCs carry a number of oversight, accountability, and legal risks not found in a fully integrated, and US-officered foreign legion. The British Brigade of Gurkhas, the South-West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (Koevoet), and the Kit Carson Scouts serve as relevant historical examples where foreign troops were used to supplement national manpower resources. (Small Wars and Insurgencies/ FUB 2011)

Argues that, in light of the "war on terror" & the burgeoning strategic rivalry with the People's Republic of China, the US must engage the microstates of Oceania to secure the region. Attention is given to US diplomatic retrenchment in Oceania in the post-Cold War period, the fragility of these microstates & concomitant vulnerability to terrorism, & rising Chinese influence in the region. US diplomatic engagement, in the form of a physical presence, personal diplomacy, & aid, is urged to arrest the growing strategic vacuum in Oceania.