FM 100-23 the 1960s. Since 1988, the number of peace operations has more than doubled, with each succeeding one being more complex than the last. The UN's peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1993, for example, included 22,000 military, police, and civilian personnel from 32 contributing nations. The operation cost the world community well over billion. The UN-sanctioned peace operation in Somalia (unified task force [UNITAF]), spearheaded by the US, involved more than 27,000 personnel from 23 contributing nations at a cost of $750 million. Peace operations are not new to the Army. Since 1948, US soldiers have served in many such operations—to include the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization in the Middle East, Lebanon (1958), the Dominican Republic (1965), and the Sinai (since 1982)—as members of a multinational force and observers (MFO).
DesignationFM 100-23
EditionDec 1994
StatusSuperseded
Pages138
FunctionDoctrine Philosophy
CollectionRecent Archive