This small west African country now has the world's largest UN peacekeeping force of some 13,000 troops on the ground.
David Malone, a Canadian Foreign Service officer who is president of the International Peace Academy, an independent research group in New York, said that Secretary General Annan, a former head of peacekeeping in some of its most troubled years, needed more people.
Even if it really does transform what might be called high-intensity conflict, does it have any application to guerrilla wars or to peacekeeping?Some of the top brass certainly regard many of the claims made for the military revolution as dubious.
With her convoy rode United Nations gunmen, part of a peacekeeping force of 10,000 charged with preventing a conflagration in the aftermath of 14 years of horrific civil war.
Because of its neutrality policy, the Swiss army does not currently take part in armed conflicts in other countries, but is part of some peacekeeping missions around the world.
Many Americans had already turned against peacekeeping because of the deaths of United States soldiers in Somalia.
Only a few isolated pockets of Muslims remained in the south, held in place by French and African peacekeeping contingents and some remnants of the armed Seleka.
The United States, in the current fiscal year, is paying 27percentt of the United Nations peacekeeping budget of $2.17 billion.
Spain sent about 600 troops to Kosovo as part of a NATO-led peacekeeping force of 15,400 soldiers.
He has reluctantly agreed to a "hybrid" peacekeeping force of AU and UN troops, totalling some 26,000.
