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The Pentagon's strategic blueprint for the next decade will increasingly emphasize the military's expanding -- and controversial -- noncombat roles, from peacekeeping and drug interdiction to humanitarian aid, officials said yesterday.
April 3, 1997
THE DAILY FED
DoD Pushes Noncombat Roles
Though such missions have critics on Capitol Hill and in the military itself, a Pentagon draft report says the armed forces should be equipped to take on many more of the two dozen such deployments the United States has mounted since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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