Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

[Edward Campbell]

Don't forget that the reason for 'Pearsonian Peacekeeping' in 1956 was to rescue the West from Ike's fury. Eisenhower was flaming mad at , and because they invaded Egypt in 1956 and threatened to upset years of strategy/diplomacy. He reportedly considered expelling & from NATO!

Ralph Bunche, one of the ablest strategic thinkers of the 20th century, came up with the idea of a UN force and he enlisted Lester Pearson, one of the most skilled diplomats in the UN to stick handle the notion past the 'Eastern Block' and sell the idea to one and all, including famous diplomatic stumbling blocks like Krishna Menon.

Bunche already had his Nobel Prize for "inventing"peacekeeping; Mike Pearson got his for persuading Ike to save the western alliance.

 

[Kirkhill]

More on the Donut Hole - Coast Guard vs Coast Guard

Alaska Coast Guard tracks Chinese, Russian vessels in Bering Sea

Four Russian and Chinese security ships were tracked by the Coast Guard in a sign of increased activity by key U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, the Alaska office of the Coast Guard said on Tuesday.

www.washingtontimes.com

An HC-130J Super Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak observes two Russian Border Guard ships and two Chinese Coast Guard ships approximately 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island Sept. 28, 2024. This marked the northernmost location

China’s coast guard said the joint maritime patrol in the Bering Sea followed a Chinese-Russian drill and was seeking to check fishing boats and maintain order in the North Pacific, The Associated Press reported. The boats conducted search-and-rescue exercises and showed “high efficiency in coordination and cooperation.”

Last month, troops from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division and the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces were deployed to Shemya Island in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The troops are part of a force projection operation to move soldiers and equipment to oarts of the North Pacific.

 

[Halifax Tar]

The issue is that went to hell when the Russians got nukes - and the whole tripwire aspect became a little fuzzy.
UN forces have generally only been successful when they either have overwhelming forces, or against Governments that generally accept the UN.
UN failures in Rwanda, and FYR show that the UN cannot do jack or shit without a Big Stick to enforce it.

Without a big stick anything a Government says or does is just vapid and empty.

Its like the talk about sovereignty in the MCDV thread. A nations sovereignty exists on the belief that its violently not worth it for others to try and take it. The big stick is that.