,Strengthening America's Southern Flank Requires a Better Effort

Strengthening America's Southern Flank Requires a Better Effort


 

Publication Date: February 2004

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James Jay Carafano; Stephen Johnson

Research Area: Government

Keywords: National security

Type: Report

Abstract:

In the global war on terrorism, to defend the U.S. homeland and help its allies in the Western Hemisphere, the United States needs a new strategy that treats nascent democracies differently from the dictatorships they once were, meets the new threats from within the region, and moves beyond current tutorial and assistance relations toward sustained collaboration.