PART 1, WHY OPEN THE SUBJECT OF WORLD PEACE NOW?
Russia reportedly lost over 30,000 soldiers killed on the Ukraine battlefield during December 2025.
While war rages on in the Middle East and Ukraine and numerous hot spots around the world, the American people gave President Trump a mandate for change in the U.S.; all kinds of change: immigration, crime, military, the economy, out of control government oversight and regulation, judicial lawfare, foreign affairs, it’s a long list.
The world is currently speculating about what President Trump will do about the two current combat zones, Ukraine and the Middle East.
While we are leaning forward as a nation, hopeful, optimistic, open to change and expecting another year of strong Trump leadership in 2026, why not add world peace to the to-do list? But, you ask, is it even possible to look for world peace before the Israeli and Ukraine wars are completely over? One approach would be to look beyond the two current conflicts and watch them just dissolve as part of a larger success story on peace.
There are actions and moments in time that are so momentous they can change the world. Unfortunately, they are nearly always seen in hindsight leaving us with a list of “what if” questions.
We are at one of those “moments” right now and it could actually become one of the most momentous in modern history.
While not necessarily seeking to become the “world leader”, President Trump’s recent actions have found him at least temporarily on that stage. Dring his first year he has been an active player in the resolution of eight world conflicts to include Israel/Hamas and Russia/Ukraine.
Then more recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos President Trump explained to the world that the U.S. is not interested in “invading Greenland” to add a 51st state and 57,000 population, but rather create a critical strategic deterrent against the rapid advancement of Russian/Chinese control in the North American Arctic Region while European nations do nothing.
Trump followed Davos by chairing the signing ceremony for a Board of Peace with 59 nations’ leaders signing. Another “world Leader” action.
One can begin to conclude that those series of events have created the “moment” when he is currently the de-facto world leader.
All of that provides an opportunity to take an additional step forward toward world peace forever, a concept never before considered viable in the modern world.
World peace forever can and therefore should be launched now, now being 2026. If not, the concept execution could likely be lost forever.
The concept, in a single sentence, is to formerly align the military capabilities of world-wide nations into a single commitment to overwhelmingly counter the invasion of any kind by any other nation.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would never have happened. The invasion of Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran would never have happened.
No single nation or group of nations, for example the U.S. or NATO, will lead this multi-nation counter force. But it will take a de-facto world leader to develop the concept, sell the concept, and initially set it in motion, i.e. President TRUMP.
Why Trump? Because there simply is no other leader with the status to make it happen now.
PART 2, WHY IS THE WORLD IN AN UNSUSTAINABLE SITUATION NOW?
Seeking the means to achieve world peace is not a new subject; some background is appropriate to set the stage for a way forward. Let’s take a quick look back over the past 80 years at previous endeavors.
THE UNITED NATIONS:
In June 1941 representatives from thirteen nations (the U.S. was not included) met in London and signed the Declaration of St. James’s Palace expressing a vision for postwar world order. The next step was the Atlantic Conference in August 1941, at which U.S. President Roosevelt and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill laid out a more detailed form of the alliance called The Atlantic Charter. The final step was the Yalta Conference, in February 1945 when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on the establishment of the United Nations as well as the structure of the UN’s Security Council.
Despite having endured for 80 years, generally speaking, the UN is a weak-intentioned, expensive (2024 internal budget of $3.9 billion) bureaucratic mass that is involved in about everything and accomplishes very little. Case in point, did the UN respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 22 February, 2022? Yes, on March 3rd they voted overwhelmingly for a resolution deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for the immediate withdrawal of its forces. That was it, no actions taken.
The UN is an established international organization perfectly positioned to be a greater force for the greater good of the collective world. But in its current condition, it is incapable of deterring or bringing to a close a conflict such as exists in Ukraine today. We need to completely rethink this issue right now while
change is possible.
THE UN TODAY:
The overarching mission of the UN is, “to ensure international peace and security.” But they are incapable of doing so and that is primarily because of how the Security Council functions.
THE SECURITY COUNCIL:
By way of explanation, the Security Council consists of five permanent members, the U.S., China, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom and ten elected UN members. The presidency of the Council rotates among the fifteen members, each serving for one month. Is anyone surprised that Russia was president in February 2022 when they attacked Ukraine?
Under the United Nations Charter, the principal function of the Security Council is also to, “ensure international peace and security.” Additionally, and this is important, the subset authority allows the Council to:
One, investigate any dispute or situation which might lead to international friction.
Two, recommend methods of adjusting such disputes or the terms of a settlement.
Three, formulate plans for the establishment of a system to regulate armaments.
Four, determine the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression and recommend what action should be taken.
Five, call on members to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop aggression.
And six, take military action against an aggressor. Those six represent a very comprehensive list of positive actions, especially the sixth and final authority to take military action against an aggressor. None of these six actions routinely happen; thus, failure and no peace.
Furthermore, the Security Council rarely acts decisively because of their decision-making process. All Security Council decisions have to be approved by at least 9 of the 15 members. The problem is that any one, it just takes one, of the five permanent members, U.S. Russia, China, France or the UK can veto a proposal. One veto by a permanent member and the issue, no matter how important, becomes a dead issue with no action. Reality is that China and Russia can and do routinely prevent the Security Council from acting out, “to ensure international peace and security.”
The bottom line is that the UN has never been the answer to world peace and never will be. We need a new and different way forward.
PART 3, WORLD PEACE FOREVER CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS.
What is the one-word formula that can make world peace a reality?
That word is deterrence. That is, fear, in the minds of a potential aggressor, of rapid and decisive retaliation by an especially tailored, overwhelming force.
The intent of this paper is to outline a concept of operation that can potentially involve support from the majority of the 195 nations of the world to join a new organization outside and separate from the United Nations.
Let’s call the organization, United for World Peace and the military contingent could be called the International Deterrence Force, IDF. This is not to be confused with Israel’s IDF which stands for Israeli Defense Force. The IDF defined here has absolutely nothing to do with defense. It is all about deterrence based on a very large and capable offensive force.
THE UNITED FOR WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATION
First, establish a relatively small headquarters, preferably NOT in the U.S. There must be continuous emphasis that this is not going to be a U.S.-led organization.
Secondly, there will be a civilian Secretary General elected by the member nations serving one six-year term.
Third, there will be an experienced 4-star military IDF Commander with a separate IDF headquarters.
Fourth, there will be elements of the highly trained, expansive International Defense Force permanently stationed in their home countries ready for immediate rapid deployment to any aggressor nation.
The United for World Peace mission is to, “Ensure continuous world peace and security.” The mission statement must remain simple, singular, focused and all-encompassing.
To accomplish this mission, day-to-day actions at the United for World Peace and IDF headquarters will include:
One, immediate investigation of any international dispute or situation which might lead to international friction.
Two, determine the existence of a threat to the peace or an act of aggression and take immediate action.
Three, formulate plans for the establishment of a system to regulate armaments to include nuclear, chemical and biological.
Four, direct United For World Peace members to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop aggression.
And five most importantly, if members believe any nation’s aggressive activity is pending, be ready every day to rapidly deploy tailored, highly trained offensive IDF elements against an aggressor.
At this point let me strongly emphasize again that this is NOT a U.S. organization and the IDF will likely not be led by a U.S. commander. Everything will belong to the member nations.
Given this framework, let me give you my view of the initial internal workings.
Importantly, this will not resemble the over 120,000 UN employee operation. In my view the United for World Peace organization will be a lot closer to 12 hundred in size than 120,000.
Every member nation must agree to contribute to the IDF elements from their existing force structure that can be deployed anywhere in the world within seven days. Every nation will contribute according to its capabilities. Here is a sense of how that can work with some examples.
- The U.S. has the greatest capability in the world for worldwide force-projection. For example, the world watched in awe in 1990 as the U.S. deployed an overwhelming force to the Gulf War in support of a coalition of 38 nations which rapidly defeated the Iraqi forces; more specifics on that later. One U.S. contribution to the IDF could be our entire air-cargo fleet to fly directly to various countries and transport their IDF contributions directly to the targeted area. Another critical U.S. contribution could be our fleet of about 100 aerial refueling tankers.
- Countries with few or no actual military resources (only 136 nations have a defense budget) could provide field hospitals, portable field surgical units with doctors and nurses, aircraft maintenance capabilities, truck drivers, border patrol personnel, police, etc. Nations with only small maneuver organizations could provide, for example, man-portable air defense and anti-tank teams and snipers. There will be a very long list of non-combatant rear-area support requirements.
- Countries with established air, land and sea combat forces will provide special operations personnel, armored units, light infantry, artillery, helicopters, tactical aircraft, naval vessels, air defense, combat engineers, all the elements for a military theater of operations. Selected nations in several regions would be responsible for providing airports that can be quickly transformed into a full-up military operation with multiple runways, an expanded tarmac, maintenance facilities, and housing for the military contingent.
- A member nation, preferably among those without an existing military budget, will fully support IDF military headquarters’ needs.
- Imagine a world-wide International Defense Force organization with little or no annual operating budget. I hope you are getting the impression that this entire concept of operations for continuous world peace can be unique, simple, highly trained, focused, rapidly deployable to anywhere there is a need while also being very austere. By contrast the 2024 UN budget was $3.9 billion.
One uniting factor is that the United for World Peace organization will borrow NATO’s Article 5 Concept. That is, an attack on one member is an attack against all members. “Attack”, defined by the IDF will include direct or indirect interaction with ground, air or sea systems as well as the use of non-military systems such as cyber-attacks on member nation civilian and/or military targets.
The first order of business for the IDF military commanders will be to conceptualize what a series of aggressor contingencies might look like. Additionally get current inventories of all the members’ military manpower, organizational structure, weapons systems, ammunition, etc. From all that raw data the planners will tailor, on paper, a draft lean-and-mean, full-time, rapidly deployable force that can take down the aggressor nation or organization. That tailored force, in total may come from several member nations and form up in the conflict area of operations. Always overestimate the IDF requirements. That is, always plan to take a machine gun to a knife fight. Every deploying force should plan to win with overwhelming force and win fast.
DETERRENCE THROUGH READINESS
The IDF Commander will establish and publish standards for every contributed element. Every nation will provide a very detailed quarterly readiness report on the trained-to-standard and deployability status of their IDF contributions.
The IDF headquarters will maintain a robust intel-processing element linked to the intel gathering capabilities of member countries.
Create synergy. In a synergistic force the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That is, given a simple ground element, an infantry brigade for example, by adding direct support artillery and air assets, air defense, combat engineers, direct support logistics, etc. the force becomes exponentially stronger.
An essential element of the IDF’s readiness will be its ability to create and operate with a common set of tactics, techniques, terminology and procedures. To do this the IDF commander will conduct frequent, inexpensive, virtual command post exercises, CPX, involving subordinate commanders who would be players in each of the IDF commander’s individual contingency plans.
Additionally, at least annually there should be an FTX, field training exercise, wherein actual forces will be flown into a training facility to wargame a particular contingency plan consisting of IDF combined and joint forces. This should get maximum world-wide media coverage as a warning to potential aggressors.
All contributing nations will exist in a state of one of four different IDF Readiness Conditions, IDF-REDCON.
IDF-REDCON 1: Normal peacetime condition. A completed plan will be in place in every member nation. Readiness standards will be in force for every IDF element.
IDF-REDCON 2: The Secretary-General and IDF Commander, having identified a potential threat to a member nation, will tailor a force for deployment and place them on 24-hour alert.
IDF-REDCON 4: Deployment of all designated elements to the target area and preparing to initiate an overwhelming counteroffensive.
SOME OF MY CONCLUSIONS FROM ALL OF THIS DETAIL.
What does all of this detail come down to? The answer is deterrence. The objective of having a highly recognizable superior force that can rapidly deploy anywhere at any time can become so overwhelming for potential aggressors to think about that the IDF may never have to deploy and world peace will become the order of every day. That is the meaning and objective of deterrence.
My second conclusion is that this IDF concept can annually save trillions of dollars in member nations’ defense spending. How can that happen? There are currently multiple nations that have a full range of heavy, light and special forces along with the entire array of specialty services such as engineers, signal, intelligence, air defense, artillery, helicopters, air forces, ships and on and on. Under the IDF organization a nation only has to sustain and train the particular forces they are to deliver to the deployable force. For example, one nation may train and deploy only air defense systems.
SOME POTENTIAL SCENARIOS FOR THE IDF
An attack on small-country “A” in Africa by a larger neighboring country “B” appears imminent. The IDF Commander determines that inserting a couple of infantry battalions on the ground could possibly sufficiently deter the attack. But, using the intent to always have an overwhelming advantage, the commander will deploy a full infantry brigade along with combat supporting forces and tactical air support. Result, Country “B” packs up and goes home. Deterrence is a powerful force for world peace.
A more serious and far-ranging scenario might look like this: China continues to threaten Taiwan with aggressive air and naval operations. It is determined that the demonstrations are a rehearsal for an actual attack. The Secretary-General and IDF Commander agree to go to IDF-REDCON 3. That is, all personnel and equipment for the designated units will move to assembly areas. Deployment aircraft will move to their first pick-up airfields.
China’s Achilles heel is imported oil, about 11 million barrels per day. Inform China that an overwhelming IDF naval force is in route to the South China Sea to create an impenetrable blockade of all incoming gas and oil tankers. Additionally, missiles and aircraft capable of taking out the gas and oil pipelines from Russia will be immediately forward deployed. The Secretary-General will request China publicly sign a pledge to acknowledge that forevermore Taiwan will be considered an independent nation free of all ties to China and provocative military actions against Taiwan are forbidden. Deterrence in action in support of world peace.
During the fall months of 2021, Russia moved a massive army to the Ukraine border giving every indication they would attack which they eventually did on 22 February, 2022. Had the IDF been in place and an IDF-REDCON 3 announced to the world, there is every reason to believe the Russian invasion would never have taken place. Again, deterrence in action, keeping the peace.
The next step could be for the IDF Commander to visit North Korea to discuss ICBM and nuclear testing. Then on to Iran to discuss Iran’s role as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorist organizations as they routinely finance, train, equip and lead terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis.
The UN is incapable of deterring any of these example scenarios.
Why would countries sign up to be an IDF member? Here is a starter list of ten answers as to why a United for World Peace organization is needed now.
One, Middle East countries and Israel are fearful of the hegemony intentions of a nuclear-equipped Iran but powerless individually to stop it.
Two, South Korea and Japan are very nervous about North Korea’s aggressive offensive missile and nuclear programs but powerless to do anything about it.
Three, Taiwan is fearful of a China invasion.
Four, Europe is fearful of more Russian aggression and use of nuclear weapons.
Five, former Soviet Republics are fearful that they may be next on Putin’s list.
Six, the Baltic countries and Finland are fearful of Russia.
Seven, India is in a constant state of unrest over China’s border incursions.
Eight, African border disputes are a recurring concern.
Nine, Iran’s support for terrorist activities threatens the world.
Ten, aggressors who would use cyberattacks to inflict humanitarian and economic disaster on another nation is a growing threat.
During the first one thousand days of the Ukrainian border conflict there were an estimated 1 to 1.5 million combined dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and civilians.
Another reason to join other nations as a member in the International Deterrence Force is that there will no longer be a reason to belong to other alliances such as NATO or to maintain ready forces in support of bilateral treaties for mutual protection.
With world peace assurances in place, the next step could be a world without nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons.
The UN “peacekeeping force” budget for 2024 was $6.1 billion. With active worldwide deterrence and an overwhelming rapidly-deployable counter-offensive force trained and ready, peace will be the standard world-wide day-to-day condition.
With a proactive International Deterrence Force in place, no nation would ever need to feel alone or stand-alone.
PART FOUR, PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR WORLD PEACE FOREVER CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS.
About now more than a few of you are still skeptical about the feasibility of putting together a coalition of nations and then being capable of moving a large combat force possibly thousands of miles into combat. I do not recall ever seeing, before the fact, such an overwhelming proof of concept as the one that follows. It drives my conclusion that this proposal is certainly within the art of the possible. Here is why I am convinced and I believe you will be also when you read this brief after-action-report. In 1990 the U.S. led a coalition of nations in one of the most spectacular combat operations in modern warfare, shocking the world with its capability.
OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM
Many of you will recall that on 2,3 and 4 August 1990 Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces attacked, defeated and occupied their neighbor Kuwait with what Saddam Hussein used to brag was the “Mother of all Armies.” Most believed the takedown of Kuwait was a planned stepping stone for the defeat of Saudi Arabia and its vast oil and gas reserves.
Pay particular attention to this time-line and the size and number of operational elements that deployed from a dead start on 2 August:
3 August, U.S. President Bush announced that U.S. navy ships had deployed to the Persian Gulf.
7 August, President Bush began a military operation named Desert Shield which formed a 35-nation coalition to defend Saudi Arabia and ultimately liberate Kuwait. (numbers rounded for ease of understanding).
7 August, 15,000 U.S. troops, 32 navy destroyers, 100 helicopters and a contingent of fighter air planes arrived in Saudi Arabia.
- August, the U.S. 18th Airborne Corps began forward deployment to Saudi Aribia, 7,500 miles away.
14 September UK and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia.
15 January, 1991, the UN deadline for Iraqi forces to be withdrawn from Kuwait expired.
17 January, the coalition operation Desert Shield transitioned to Desert Storm with the following results:
Coalition: 39 countries, of which 28 contributed combat forces.
Force size: Approximately 670,000 troops from 28 countries, 425,000 of which were from the United States.
Coalition air component size: 2,500 combat aircraft, 1,800 of which were American.
Coalition airlift: 509,000 passengers and 594,000 tons of cargo carried.
Coalition sorties flown: 100,000 plus.
Aerial refueling: 15,400 sorties dispensed 110 million gallons of fuel.
Number of dumb bombs dropped: 210,000.
Number of smart bombs dropped: 9,300.
30mm depleted uranium rounds fired by A-10 manned aircraft (tank-killers): 782,000.
Duration of air campaign before the ground invasion: 39 days.
Iraqi tanks lost during the war: 3,700 out of 4,300 on hand.
Number of U.S. Carrier Battle Groups on station: 6.
Coalition POWs taken during the war: 26.
Iraqi POWs taken during the war: 70,000 plus.
U.S. combat related deaths: 147
Iraqi military deaths: 100,000 plus.
Ground war duration: 100 hours.
Yes, a highly effective multiple-nation coalition can be organized in days. The U.S. has done it once and we can show our IDF allies how to do it again.
A final IDF deterrent posture will not be a threat, it will be a promise to aggressors.
PART FIVE, CONCLUSIONS.
Time is of the essence. The Middle East could erupt into World War Three at any moment and the Ukraine conflict could escalate into a nuclear war.
Notwithstanding that President Trump will temporarily appear as a world leader in selling the concept to all of the worlds’ nations, he must continuously emphasize that the U.S. does not intend to lead the United for World Peace organization or the International Deterrent Force.
There is no intent with this initiative to do away with the United Nations. They play an important role in humanitarian relief around the world. But we also must accept the fact that they are powerless when it comes to their mission of, “ensuring international peace and security.”
This concept need not be a multi-year plan for activation. We can make it happen now and insure, as time goes forward, that we gain additional United for World Peace members, improve our capability, agility and deployment times and thereby institutionalize our commitment to world peace forever
There is currently a lot of discussion about the New World Order. Well, here is a new twist on The New World Order, call it World Peace Forever.
There are actions and moments in time that are so momentous they can change the world. We are at one of those “moments” right now and it could actually become one of the most momentous in modern history. President Trump should launch United for World Peace and International Deterrence Force concept of operations now in 2026.
PART SIX, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TO-DO LIST:
Quickly prepare a brief, concise draft description (who, what, when, where, why and how) of the United for World Peace and International Deterrence Force organizations.
Start the World Peace ball rolling all at once by addressing the U.S. with a pre-announced speech explaining the above concept of operations for world peace. While the address is underway send a copy directly to the leaders of the other 194 nations.
Immediately after the inaugural World Peace address, President Trump should begin personally contacting our major allies asking them to at least tentatively sign as a member nation. Additionally, launch VP Vance, Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegseth to personally meet with other nations’ leaders to sell the concept of World Peace and ask for their pledge to join.
After a significant number of nations have joined, President Trump could have VP Vance and twelve counterpart Vice Presidents from member nations to act as a selection committee. All member nations will, if they so choose, forward the name of a candidate for Secretary General along with a detailed resume. Those will be studied by VP Vance’s Committee and three candidates will be selected to compete in an election, one vote per member nation. The winner will become the first Secretary General and immediately begin serving a six-year term.
A similar action will simultaneously take place to select the IDF Commander for a four-year term.
If the first 100 leaders of the world’s nations can come forward quickly and, at least tentatively, sign on as members of the United for World Peace organization, we could within a few weeks have both members of the Command Group (Secretary General and IDF Commander) on board with at least a skeleton staff for each. Soon thereafter the IDF Commander could be assessing potential member military contributions, airfields, logistics, headquarters locations, etc. and drafting rapid deployment contingency plans.
The point being that there is potentially so much to be gained and so little risk or expense involved, that it should not be a difficult decision for nations to join.
BOTTOM LINE:
We do not have to build the deterrent/counter offensive force, it already exists, we just have to put it together into logical, deployable, combined-arms packages. It’s almost free.
Try to think about a year from now when some unstable national leader or terrorist organization decides to launch an invasion into all or some portion of a World Peace member nation. Immediately, on day one, the score card on the battlefield could be at least 100 nations against 1 nation and the aggressor will ultimately loose decisively and quickly.
Imagine a world in which there are no terrorist organizations, no internal armed militias killing neighbors, no constant threat from a rough nation with thousands of ballistic missiles (Iran), unpredictable nations with nuclear weapons (North Korea), daily cyberattack threats that could take down a power grid, China’s constant threat to Taiwan, Russia’s reluctance to end their ongoing war in Ukraine, just to name a few. Yes, it is possible to imagine our world with peace.
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