ABSTRACT
The number of international high-intensity military interventions and campaigns around the world after the end of the cold war has been limited. Outside intervention is the result of protracted failure of governance in weak states, which produces an untenable situation requiring some kind of international response. The path leading to such intervention is often fraught with considerations regarding the operational theatre, available resources and deliberations of various possible responses in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The new regime is totalitarian and repressive, displaying many of the traditional symptoms of bad governance such as incompetence, corruption, cronyism. The presumption of the chapter is that people should be careful not to write off the possibility of such campaigns in the future but retain the political awareness as well as the military capability required to meet them, if and when they happen. The economic policies of the ruling Revolutionary Council have made matters worse rather than better, creating high unemployment and hyperinflation.
