Thank you for the question. I hope I can answer it.
War has changed in a lot of ways. If you think of the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War, those were more classic wars that we grew up with and know. Once the 1960s came in, Lester Pearson was the man who really got peacekeeping going. That became the modus operandi on how you resolve conflicts. That went so far and held true all the way up until the Gulf War. That's when something happened that really went beyond. The resolutions didn't work. You had to have the oomph behind it. That's recognized in the United Nations charter. When they turned around and saw that the resolutions would not be effective, they had to use a particular force.
I think it's all changed. If you look at what's happening in the world today, I think you'll find the same thing. I guess the United Nations in many ways in the western world can set the tone and scene through their actions and discussions at the UN, but in the final analysis, it still comes down to the nations themselves to back it up.
It was the coalition of the willing, at the time, that came together. It was not really command and control as we know it in the military. It was nothing more than coordination and co-operation. That's how we did things. We talked to all the other commanders. We didn't ask any nation to do more than their government had authorized them to do. Doing that, we were able to actually mesh together a pretty damn good plan.