ABSTRACT
Training exercises involving permanent-member forces and the regional rapid-deployment units would be coordinated in the Security Council's Military Staff Committee (MSC), drawing on the experience and personnel of the United Nations (UN) offices responsible for peacekeeping. The purpose of a UN deterrent system is to provide a flexible response capability for dealing with the two kinds of violence that are most prevalent today. These are cross-border aggression, usually by middie-power military dictatorships, and internal violence in states divided along ethnic or factional lines. The Security Council would retain sole responsibility for the authorization and direction of the task forces it established to maintain or restore the peace. Government crimes against humanity that are so grave in the Security Council's judgment as to require the use of force to stop them cannot be dealt with by peacekeeping or peace enforcement.
