In October of that year, in Somalia, 18 American service members were killed — some of their bodies dragged through the streets — while on a peacekeeping mission; Bin Laden was almost giddy about the deaths.
The debate is over whether Swiss soldiers can be armed while serving on peacekeeping missions abroad.
The soldier, Staff Sgt. Frank J. Ronghi, 36, who was sent to Kosovo last summer with the Third Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry, pleaded guilty last week to sodomizing and murdering the young girl, Merita Shabiu, while he was on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.
It crashed into a house in the suburb of Bagrami while on a peacekeeping mission, the Turkish military said.
Tanzania's government is demanding a UN inquiry into the killing of 14 of its soldiers last week while on a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
While many military scholars were focusing on peacekeeping or the impact of high-tech weaponry, Nagl was drawn to a topic much less discussed in the 1990's: counterinsurgency.
Ms. Rice dug new ground with the idea that the American military should be reserved for war-fighting, in the Persian Gulf or the Pacific, while the weaker European forces should concentrate on peacekeeping at home.
The next year, while still on active duty with the Army, he joined the staff of his former Georgetown professor, Madeleine K. Albright, when she was United States ambassador to the United Nations; he focused largely on peacekeeping issues.
He worked hard to help push through recent United Nations resolutions on peacekeeping forces in Sudan and Chad.
In the first years of the 21st century, annual UN expenditures on peacekeeping operations exceeded $2 billion.
