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Does the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) have a future in an era of multidimensional security? Burdened by a mid-20th-century military structure and a tradition of U.S. leadership, lingering deep antimilitary discomfort within the Organization of American States (OAS), and severely shrinking financial and human resources, the Board, with its secretariat and 27-member council of delegates,1 has not been functionally useful to the OAS or its own membership and is ripe for disestablishment. Perceived to be out of touch, inflexible, and difficult to control, the IADB would cease to exist if funding were denied or markedly reduced.2
Document Type
Policy Brief
Publication Date
8-2010
Publication
Strategic Forum
Publisher
National Defense University Press
City
Washington, DC
Recommended Citation
Cope, John A., "Reforming the Inter-American Defense Board" (2010). Strategic Forums. 58.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/58