Strategy and policy during the 1990s

The Bush Administration responded to the end of the Cold War by developing a strategy based on pre-empting crises through the forward presence of US military forces. This strategy paved the way for US forces to be used in multinational peacekeeping duties. As the administration’s “National Security Strategy” (NSS) of 1992 put it: “The most desirable and efficient security strategy is to address the root causes of instability and to ease tensions before they result in conflict.”1