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The Logistics Problems of a UN Military Force

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Edward H. Bowman  and
James E. Fanning
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The UN Secretariat has many international operations for which it must provide total or partial logistic support. Arrangements and provision must be made for about 500 conferences each year in various parts of the world. Support must be provided for the numerous offices of the Technical Assistance Board. The 35 information centers and the regional offices of the Economic and Social Council all place regular demands for support on the Secretariat. Support has been required for the many special political and peace-keeping missions—to mention a few, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the Korean Reconstruction Agency, the UN Truce Supervisory Organization in Palestine, the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan, and visiting missions to trust territories.

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I. The International Policeman in an Armed World—Lessons from the Past
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International Organization , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Spring 1963 , pp. 355 - 376
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1963

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1 Sharp, Walter R., Field Administration in the United Nations System: The Conduct of International Economic and Social Programs (New York: Praeger, United Nations Studies No. 10, 1961), p. 4Google Scholar, footnote 1.

2 Ibid., pp. 231–234.

3 Our own research and interviewing has been recent and as such has dealt with the current situation, especially the Congo. For background information on the Suez situation our best source of information by far has been the book by Frye, William R., A United Nations Peace Force (New York, Oceana Publications [for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace], 1957)Google Scholar. We draw heavily on this book in the first part of this section, especially from Frye's, third chapter, “The Force Emerges,” pp. 21–31Google Scholar.

4 Conversation with Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Cairo, June 1962.

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6 Security Council Official Records (15th year), Supplement for July, August, and 11 1960, p. 185Google Scholar.

7 Ibid., pp. 16–29.

8 Ibid., p. 82.

9 Ibid., pp. 185–188.

10 Ibid., pp. 32–33.

11 U.S. Participation in the U.N., Report by the President to the Congress for 1961, Department of State Publication 7413, International Organization Conference Series 33, August 1962, p. 87.

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13 Ibid., p. 188.

14 U.S. News and World Report, March 20, 1961.

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16 Ibid., p. 85.

17 “UNEF—Summary Study of the Experience Derived from the Establishment and Operation of the Force,” Report of the Secretary-General, UN Document A/3943, 10 9, 1958, p. 73Google Scholar.