Yet this force was neither of the right makeup nor equipped to provide postwar security.

Members of the network had stopped cooperating after postwar security was tightened at Los Alamos.

Any plans for postwar security will need to be flexible, Pentagon officials acknowledged today.

But in reaching this point, he has sorely tried NATO, the pillar of postwar security in the West.

Such dislocations would be almost inevitable, regardless of whether American leaders had moved faster to provide postwar security.

Asked about peacekeeping duties, he said NATO was open to the possibility of helping to provide postwar security or assisting in the search for weapons of mass destruction.

But Arab diplomats said both nations were eager to stake out their positions as dominant Arab powers in postwar regional security.

For the moment, Washington and Teheran have very different visions of what postwar regional security means.

Just as experts on peacekeeping predicted before the war, the invading force was grossly inadequate to maintain postwar security.

The same values were the guarantee and the bedrock of postwar security and prosperity in Western Europe.