Military Studies Categories
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MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN CIVIL WARSTHE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND ARMS TRADE
This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade.
The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away from the conventional wisdom that military interventions for economic interests are a product of domestic corporate lobbying and instead argues that states intervene to protect (but not advance) existing corporate investments for national strategic interests. The work introduces new concepts of military interventions – proxy interventions and indirect interventions – which are determined by arms trade relationships between the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and recipient countries, and utilizes insights from principal-agent theory, whereby the permanent members of the UNSC delegate military interventions in civil wars to other countries. The book concludes by examining the transformative effect of FDI on the willingness of a state to intervene militarily in a civil war, focusing on the case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa. Provided that the current positive trends in FDI and arms trade persist, we are likely to see more and not fewer military interventions in the future.
This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, military interventions, security studies and International Relations.
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BEYOND SHOCK AND AWE
Media commentator Eric Haney-a founding member of Delta Force and author of Inside Delta Force-along with other noted military analysts and award-nominated editor Brian M. Thomsen, examines how our military must evolve to face changing times, technology, and adversaries. From limited wars to possible large scale invasions of Syria or Iran-or a major military stand-down with North Korea-Beyond Shock and Awe is a fresh, provocative look at America’s army of the future.
Articles include the work by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, Jr., which first used the term “shock and awe;” Kevin Dockery on the weapons of future wars; Professor William Forstchen on how precision guided weaponry will eliminate “problem” individuals before they can start a war; Eugene Sullivan on such legal issues as pre-emptive attacks and military tribunals; Paul A. Thomsen on integrating military intelligence into strategic warfare; William Terdoslavich on how America’s swift victory in the Iraq War gave way to a bloody stalemate; John Heifers on the importance of cultural knowledge in winning wars and building alliances; and Eric Haney on the many ways in which rapid dominance of an adversary can be gained through shock and awe.
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BIOTERROR AND BIOWARFARE
From the history of biowarfare development programmes to the possibilities for bioterrorist attacks, Dando also describes what he believes is necessary to limit the availability and potency of biological agents in the future. Examining the backdrop of legislative wrangling and failed international agreements, this well-argued work interweaves politics and technology to reveal the reality behind this twenty-first century menace.
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INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MILITARY HISTORY 2 VOLM (SET)
Both multicultural and international in perspective, this A-Z reference covers all aspects of the history of war–on land, sea, and in the air–from the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. to the present day. Besides a full coverage of battles, campaigns, wars, weapons and equipment, military organization, defense systems, and military forces, the entries, ranging from 50 to 4000 words, include social history on the military and society around the world, concepts and terms, maps and other illustrations, and biographies, making this reference the most comprehensive in its field.
Serving both as a standard work of reference on military history and as a study of the evolution of military methods, the set will appeal to both professional historians and amateur military historians as well as enthusiasts of military affairs and the ever-growing constituency of war gamers.
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WINNING MODERN WARS
General Wesley K. Clark’s Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire explains in clear, riveting, revelatory terms how the war in Iraq was waged, when the plans for the war were made, and exactly how the invasion succeeded while the occupation unraveled. These successes, largely attributable to America’s stunning military built and maintained over the last several administrations, and failures, almost wholly a result of poor administration planning and errors, have delivered to Iraqis – and to Americans – the dangerous, unstable Iraq or today.
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USI NATIONAL SECURITY SERIES 2004
Table of Contents: National Security Lecture; National Security Seminar; First Session; Geo-Political Implication of Development in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh on India’s Security; Second Session; Maritime Dimensions of our Security Equations with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives and the Impact of Foreign Involvement in the Region; Third Session; The Way Ahead and the Type of Cooperative network We Must have to Safeguard and Enhance Our Interests; National Security.
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PAKISTAN
‘A well – written and authoritative account from someone who knows Pakistani politics from the inside’.
-Peter Bergen, CNN Terrorism Analyst and author of the bestselling Holy War Inc; Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden‘We are in Husain Haqqani’s debt for providing an authoritative account of the linkages between Pakistan’s powerful Islamists and its professional army. He conclusively demonstrates that these ties are long-standing, complex and very troubling. This brilliantly researched and written book should be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand this increasingly important state’.
-Stephen p. Cohen, Brookings Institution,
Author of The Idea of Pakistan and the Pakistan ArmyHusain Haqqani’s Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military analyzes the origins of the relationships between Islamism groups and Pakistan’s military, and explores Pakistan’s quest for identity and security. Tracing how Pakistan’s military has sought U.S. support by making itself useful for concerns of the moment – while continuing to strengthen the mosque – military alliance within the country – Haqqani offers an alternative view of political developments in Pakistan since the country’s independence in 1947.
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