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The United States Central Command, for its part, seems to regard peacekeeping as a distraction.

Washington regards peacekeeping as a national security issue and a "good bargain", as one official put it.

Critics have portrayed peacekeeping as a poor substitute for intensive combat training at the vast ranges that the Army has established in Europe and the United States.

The White House increasingly regards UN peacekeeping as a US national security issue, in large part because Islamist insurgencies from Mali to the Central African Republic, and entrenched conflicts in Nigeria and Somalia, threaten even wider instability.

Mr. Holbrooke said he would welcome a high-level debate in the United States on the issue of United Nations peacekeeping as a factor in American national security, "but not during a presidential campaign".

But even if the force intervention brigade is not replicated, it fits with a wider agenda by the major western powers to remake UN peacekeeping as a partner in military campaigns.

Sierra Leone is turning out to be as big a blow to UN peacekeeping as were Somalia, Rwanda and Srebrenica.

The British plan would also have a wider remit, engaged in peacekeeping as well as crisis management.

It should avoid damaging international peacekeeping as well.

But leadership ability in the Police Department extends to peacekeeping as well as law enforcement, social service as well as crime-fighting.

The alliance agreed "a new strategic concept" to allow it to indulge in "expeditionary operations" – peacekeeping as well as war-fighting missions, humanitarian relief, and no doubt, time and weather permitting, motherhood and apple pie.