The Heritage Foundation
Steven Groves
Steven Groves is the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. The following statement is from a June 13, 2008, hearing on UN Peacekeeping operations before the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight. With southern Lebanon in the near past andDarfur looming ahead, the issues relating to the utility and proper role of UNpeacekeeping operations are certainly ripe for debate. “Force Multipliers and U.S. National Interests At the outset, the term “force multipliershould be dispensed with when assessing UN peacekeeping capabilities. “Forcemultiplier is a military…
