Defensive Militaries don't work, we saw that in the Second World War when the German's pounded on Armies that were built around defending national borders. The French army fell into this trap when they built the Maignot line (sp? I suck)
If your Military dosen't have an offensive capability all that will happen is over time it will be ground into dust.
If you keep hitting a rock with a hammer no matter how big the rock is it will eventually break.
On the UN thing. The only way to give the UN any kind of power is to assign military units to it on a permanent basis, and allow to use it unitarily without the appoval of the bodies within it. Allow the UN to be more proactive and give it the backbone to do it, and it might actually work.
A long time ago, when I was out in the field on a excercise, after I came back from a UN mission in Cyprus we joked that each of the nuclear nations should give the UN one atomic tipped missile to use as a nuclear threat to keep some of the more dangerous nations in line.
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