Sounds good Keith - I'll go with that. :-) Sorry, I really didn't follow where you were going with those initial posts.

Does the UK really get disproportionate assignments on UN peacekeeping missions? Have to dig out some stats. Likely there's always going to be *some* peacekeeping mission going on, but dunno whether it's disproportionate.

My problem with "peacekeeping" is that it only seems to work if the other two sides want peace. If they don't (as in NI, Bosnia, Iraq and Palestine), the peacekeepers are generally screwed, because they don't have the numbers to do anything significant. And worst-case, the troops get drawn into one side or the other (as in NI), become part of the problem and perpetuate the circle of violence.

Graham.