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Under article 24(1) the United Nation Charter, Security Council has an obligation to maintain peace and security across the globe. Therefore the Council has a power to conduct peace keeping and peace enforcement operations. However the spectrum of operation develops become military operations, as permitted by chapter VII of the UN Charter ‘action with respect to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace, and acts of aggression-. In contrast, the legal basis of the existence of the UN Forces is still unclear. In fact, the forces have carried out military operations throughout the world even without a strong legal basis. The paper will begin by describing the development between traditional and modern peace keeping and peace enforcement operations. Then, it will assess the legal source related to the forces, and measuring the validity of an action taken during the operation. And finally, the article will express the idea regarding how the UN should formulated the peace keeping and peace enforcement operations based on the rule of law.