The West Wing

Khundu Peacekeeping Force

Description

Bartlet orders a forced-depletion casualty estimate for this hypothetical U.S. military force slated for deployment in Khundu. The unit addresses a humanitarian crisis with thousands of potential civilian deaths outside Bitanga, where U.S. intelligence relies on the Archbishop's clerical network. Slattery tasks Jack Reese at the Pentagon to model risks discreetly, sidestepping the Secretary of Defense amid political sensitivities before the inauguration. This deployable force combines rapid military intervention with crisis stabilization.

Event Involvements

Events with structured involvement data

1 events
S4E14 · Inauguration Part I
Ordering the Forced-Depletion Estimate for Khundu

The Khundu Peacekeeping Force is the hypothetical military unit whose casualty profile Bartlet orders to be modeled. Though not yet formed, it is the conceptual target of the forced-depletion analysis and the operational thread tying humanitarian concern to military consequence.

Active Representation

Present as a conceptual entity via Bartlet's instruction to model a 'peacekeeping force in Khundu.'

Power Dynamics

Right now purely analytic: it exerts no power but structures the Pentagon's analytic task and frames subsequent policy choices.

Institutional Impact

Transforms humanitarian concern into a militarily legible problem, forcing trade-offs between moral duty and casualty risk.

Internal Dynamics

Not an active organization yet; tensions will emerge around its formation, rules of engagement, and political authorization.

Organizational Goals
(Conceptually) Stabilize Khundu and protect civilians if deployed. (Analytically) Provide a concrete scenario for casualty estimation and planning.
Influence Mechanisms
Provides the scenario that shapes analytic questions and resource planning. Serves as a rhetorical anchor for moral and political debate about intervention.