num_pages: 400
description: A penetrating study of U.S. policy on peace operations, Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? examines the challenges of establishing sustainable security in postconflict environments in places like the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Perito’s extensive research and interviews with Washington policymakers, European diplomats, and civilian police and soldiers in the field raise serious questions about how well prepared the United States is for these nonmilitary tasks. Perito calls for the creation of a civilian U.S. Stability Force composed of constabulary, police, and judicial teams of lawyers, judges, and corrections officers.
language: English
title: Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him?: America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force
titlecomplete: Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him?: America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force
ratings_count: 1
publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr