...Military Staff Committee composed of "the Chiefs of Staff of the permanent members . . . responsible for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council" (Article 47). Alas, the onset of the Cold War rendered all these assumptions and efforts highly problematic....

...that action. First, it provided for a Military Staff Committee (article 47) that was "responsible ... for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council." Although actual command of such forces was deferred until a later time, establishing the Military Staff...

...regulating armaments. 5. Article 47 provides for a military staff committee under the Security Council for strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council. The catch was that establishment of this committee was subject to a veto. With the deterioration of...

...regulating armaments. 5. Article 47 provides for a military staff committee under the Security Council for strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council. The catch was that establishment of this committee was subject to a veto. With the deterioration of...

...possibility of a broad-based international response to Iraq's aggression. Second, the charter states that the committee shall be responsible under the Security Council for the "strategic direction of UN forces." This could have included, first, sorting out the general division of labor among the various...

...international peace and security, the employment and command of forces placed at its disposal" and "shall be responsible under the Security Council for...forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council." It has been widely reported that the peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations in Somalia and Bosnia...

...application of armed force with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee, which in turn would be "responsible under the Security Council for the...forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council." While the chain of command for such forces seems to go through the Military Staff Committee to the...

...reinvented or pushed aside in reaction to each new crisis. According to the Charter, the Committee is "responsible under the Security Council for the strategic...forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council," but that "questions relating to the command of such forces should be worked out subsequently." So the...

...palliate the impossibility of implementing them when the need arose. The Committee supposedly charged with "the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council" was created by resolution 1 (1946) of 21 January 1946, but the permanent members of the Council have...

...the Military Staff Committee (Article 46), and that the said Committee shall be responsible under the Council for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Council (Article 47, para. 3). However, Resolution 678 does not stipulate anything about the role of...