Chapter 13 - Humanitarian and
Peace/Stability Operations
Constitutional Limits
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Does the constitution allow the president to send
humanitarian aid/Peace keeping aid without
authorization from Congress?
Under the constitution, do you think the president
has more authority to take military action or
humanitarian action?
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Statutory Authority
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What does this statute allow - 10 U.S.C. §401.
HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC ASSISTANCE
PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MILITARY
OPERATIONS?
What does 10 U.S.C. §404. FOREIGN DISASTER
ASSISTANCE allow?
Does these limit the president or extend his
power?
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Protection or Provocation?
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Which American citizens is the president
protecting?
So, can the president hire Halliburton to deliver
humanitarian aid, then send in troops to protect
it?
Can the president also protect foreigners?
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Somalia
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What crisis brought the UN into Somalia in 1992?
What did UN Resolution 794 provide for Somalia?
What was the initial US military involvement?
Did Congress support this?
Why did we go into Mogadishu?
What did the White House Counsel's office say
was the core of the president's power to do this?
 Is this bootstrapping?
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Battle of Mogadishu - October 1993
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Black Hawk Down - 1993
What limits did Congress put in the
appropriations bill after this?
What did the president do?
What was the impact of this on our response to
the Rwandan Genocide - 1994?
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Foreign Control of US Troops
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What potential constitutional problem is posed by
putting US troops under foreign control?
Can Congress constitutionally prevent the
president from putting troops under foreign
control, if it is otherwise allowed?
Does it matter whether the actions in Iraq and
Afghanistan are characterized as humanitarian,
rather than military?
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What about Pakistan?
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What is the threat?
How has the situation changed over the past 2
years?
Why are we so worried about Pakistan?
 The bomb?
 India?
Is Afghanistan really about Pakistan?
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