Military Law Review

The United Nations (UN) has been 80 abused with altruistic adventurism that few can now recognize its original purpose. The UN Charter, in its proper context, is a strategic watershed that should be reevaluated and applied with greater circumspection. This paper outlines the origins and structure of the Charter reame of peace and the clear direction of national practice. It also distinguishes between three alternatives for national security strategy and planning with respect to that regime:

(1) defy Charter norms and intelvene on the basis of uni-lateral discretion;

(2) attempt to change Charter norms by renegotiating broader authority of states to US^ force against each other urnlaterally; or