It can refer to the UN Mission to the troubled state, to the collective body of government and nongovernment agencies assembled in the state to provide relief and other services, and to the more recognizable military use of the word in communications between leaders and led. Fifty years hence the first decade of the post-Cold War era will probably resemble the early years of the Cold War itself, when concepts such as containment and terms such as the Iron Curtain emerged to explain new phenomena. Few remember, or even care, what those concepts and terms replaced. Observers of strategy and of military affairs will just have to work harder to stay current. We're on the Web . . .
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