AHC: United Nations Global Defence Initiative

You're challange is to alter history enough to create a scenario where the UN creates a military arm, answerable only to the Security Council and the General-Secretary, dedicated to ensuring world peace.
 
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You're challange is to alter history enough to create a scenario where the UN creates a military arm, answerable only to the Security Council and the General-Secretary, dedicated to ensuring world peace.

The United States gives the atom bomb to the UN in 1945 and the UN then insists on global disarmament. The UN of course would be dominated by Anglo-Americans at this stage and the only target would be the USSR.

I think all countries except the USSR would say OK in the 1945/46 era. The countries that say no would be isolated and crushed by a UN (ie US/Bitish Empire and some European and Latin American allies) force.
 
Tiberium :p
No really, perhaps a limited nuclear war between the USA and USSR and their most powerfull allies (Britain, China, Canada, ...). Afterwards the smaller countries ask the UN to protect them from the (new) major powers.
 

No that's right, 30% of the earth has been infested with tiberium, 50% are in a state of social collapse , and the remaining 20% are the remnants of the technologically advanced west. We just had 4 orbital Ion Cannon strikes in Ontario last week.
 
You could have this as a development of their peacekeeping forces, although of course it would be heavily bound down by bueracracy and regulation.
 
Slightly different, perhaps even worse crisis of genocide in the 90s leads to the UN establishing an actual military; IOTL it was highly debated after both Kosovo and Rwanda especially if the UN should or not, at the time the strongest position put forward was for the UN to establish a rapid deployment force which would respond to crisis as they happen and attempt to stall and divert as much damage and harm as possible until the rest of the UN apparatus could respond. IIRC it was very much so a US-like setup, with the troops & supplies being from Security Council countries, but the actual order to go being in the hands of the Secretary General. The hope was, afaik, that if the Sec. Gen. sends in the troops early it could prevent or contain a blossoming crisis, and with their men and material on the line the Sec. Council countries would respond quicker and (hopefully better) to such flashpoints. So, more/messier conflicts in the 90s and perhaps the UNRDF comes into existence.

For bonus points; after the start of the *GWOT, the UNRDF is expanded and as a part of general UN reform is transformed into a GDI-esque organization.
 
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