United Nations
United Nations(est. 1945). President Franklin D. Roosevelt foresaw the need for “Four Policemen”—the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and China (France was added later)—to order the post–World War II world and repel all attempts at aggression and violence. Meeting in San Francisco in 1945, the founders of the United Nations tried to fulfill that vision by creating a Security Council with five permanent members charged with saving “succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
The UN Charter set up a military staff committee—consisting of the chiefs of staff or their representatives from the five permanent members—to take over the strategic direction of any military operation of the Security Council. Although this committee has met regularly for more than a half century, it has never directed any UN military operation. During...
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