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The Action Force from UNCLE

Charles EP M.

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A recurring trope in fiction from the 1960s onwards: the International Alliance of spies/cops/soldiers, sometimes through the UN and sometimes not, going around the world busting heads. Sometimes it's an alliance of nations otherwise at each other's throats, other times it's close allies. You've got your SHIELDs, your UNCLEs, your Rainbow Six's, your Action Forces before they went "we are GI Joe now" (and your 2009 movie GI Joe), etc etc.

And you get real world things like Europol or Interpol, but the nearest you get to the fictional ideal is Frontex, for patrolling EU borders for immigrants, which isn't really the sort of thing your inner ten-year-old wanted.

So what PODs would you need to be able to handwave in real-life Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies?
 
Beefier UN Peacekeepers would be the closest you could get I think, but that's still very tricky given that most countries would be concerned about the risk of being a target.

A recipe to get peacekeepers predominantly from countries who are sure it's not going to be used on them, which would make for some interesting peacekeeping. "Uh oh, here comes White Force"
 

"The Four Policemen would be responsible for keeping order within their spheres of influence... As a preventive measure against new wars, countries other than the Four Policemen were to be disarmed. Only the Four Policemen would be allowed to possess any weapons more powerful than a rifle.[2] "

Was Roosevelt drunk when he came up with this?? Like, continuously??
 
"The Four Policemen would be responsible for keeping order within their spheres of influence... As a preventive measure against new wars, countries other than the Four Policemen were to be disarmed. Only the Four Policemen would be allowed to possess any weapons more powerful than a rifle.[2] "

Was Roosevelt drunk when he came up with this?? Like, continuously??
He was often incredibly naive all things considered.
 
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