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when diplomacy runs out of adjectives and someone sends tanks instead.
means the use of armed force by one state or coalition inside another state's borders, usually justified as rescue, deterrence, or regime change.
from from latin intervenire, to come between, first formalized as doctrine in 19th-century european debates over when powers could legally meddle in weaker states affairs.
legal coverun charter bans it except self-defense or security council approval
success ratestudies show most interventions fail their stated goal
euphemism factorypeacekeeping, stabilization, and kinetic action all mean this
for instance
iraq 2003 — us-led invasion over weapons that were never found
libya 2011 — nato air campaign toppled gaddafi, state collapsed after
kosovo 1999 — nato bombed serbia without un approval, precedent debated since
vietnam war — us combat troops, 1965 to 1973, over 58000 american deaths