ABSTRACT
Raoul Cedras allowed the multinational intervention force peacefully ashore and relinquished power to the country's elected leader, President Jean Bertrand Aristide. The creation of a police force was part of the UN mandate for the intervention, so a civilian police element, called civilian police, was part of the civilian structure of United Nations Mission In Haiti. Operations such as the intervention in Haiti differ from conventional military operations in that the desired end state is a political condition, rather than a success defined as military victory. The cause of unity on the military side was aided by the unique dual status of the Force Commander as commander of both US and UN forces in Haiti. Legitimacy, defined as the willing acceptance of and support to political authority is the single most important dimension of the model in cases such as Haiti.
