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Book SynopsisThis is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council''s part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the Council has acted in a limited and selective manner, and its work has sometimes resulted in failure. It has not been - and was never equipped to be - the centre of a comprehensive system of collective security. However, it remains the body charged with primary responsibility for international peace and security. It offers unique opportunities for international consultation and military collaboration, and for developing legal and normative frameworks. It has played a part in the reduction in the incidence of international war in the period since 1945.This study examines the extent to which the work of the UN Security Council, as it has evolved, has or has not replaced older systems of power politics and practices regarding the use of force. Its starting point is the failure to implement the UTrade ReviewA useful reference work that supplements smaller studiesSumming Up: Recommended. * Choice, Apr 2011 *A definitive interdisciplinary work on an important subject ... The depth of knowledge and experience provides fascinating and essential reading for anyone interested in the area of international peace and security, regardless of their disciplinary background and whether practitioner or academic * Christian Henderson in International and Comparative Law Quarterly *The United Nations Security Council and War is an essential work, full of astute observations. Set apart by the wealth of ideas and diversity of viewpoints, this edited collection provides a seminal and well-balanced account of the Security Council's dealing with war since 1945. * Robin Geiss in German Yearbook of International Law *a magnificent achievement... this book will stand out as an indispensable tool in the vast literature on the UN Security Council, set apart by the quality of its research, the wealth of extensive and carefully researched data it contains, as well as the diversity of viewpoints it offers. * Professor Gilles Andréani in Survival *An incredible achievement, magisterial and definitive. This is an essential work on anyone's bookshelf. * Professor Lawrence Freedman, June 2008 *this excellent edited collection ... consistently high standard we should not forget that for better or worse the UN can only work well when its Great Powers work together. Analysts and policy-makers alike would be better prepared to bring this about if they read this important new book. * Professor Paul Williams, International Affairs *This substantial, comprehensive, and authoritative volume contains 28 chapters by leading academics, lawyers, and practitioners, plus detailed appendices covering UN resolutions, sanctions, and operations. * Foreign Affairs, December 2008 *That the book will stand as an authoritative piece is not in doubt. * Dr Kennedy Graham, University of Canterbury New Zealand Yearbook of International law *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; PART I: THE FRAMEWORK ; 2. A Council for All Seasons: The Creation of the Security Council and Its Relevance Today ; 3. The Charter Limitations on the Use of Force: Theory and Practice ; 4. Proposals for UN Standing Forces: A Critical History ; PART II: THE ROLES OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL ; 5. The Great Powers and the Security Council ; 6. The Security Council, the General Assembly, and War: The Uniting for Peace Resolution ; 7. The Security Council and Peacekeeping ; 8. The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions since 1990 ; 9. The Authorization by the Security Council of Regional Arrangements to Use Force: The Case of NATO ; 10. The Security Council in the Post-Cold War World ; PART III: CASE STUDIES ; 11. The United Nations, the Security Council, and the Korean War ; 12. The Suez Crisis and the British Dilemma at the United Nations ; 13. The Security Council and the Arab-Israeli Wars: Responsibility without Power ; 14. The Security Council and the India-Pakistan Wars ; 15. The Security Council and the Question of East Timor' ; 16. The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War ; 17. The Security Council and the 1991 and 2003 Iraq Wars ; 18. The Security Council and the Wars in the former Yugoslavia ; 19. The Security Council and the Bosnia Conflict: A Practitioner's View ; 20. The Security Council and Afghanistan ; 21. The Security Council and Three Wars in West Africa ; 22. The Security Council in the Wings: Exploring the Non-Involvement of the Security Council in Wars ; PART IV: THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF WAR ; 23. The Different Functions of the Security Council with Respect to Humanitarian Law ; 24. The Security Council and Interventions with Humanitarian Purposes ; 25. The Security Council and International Administration of War-Torn and Contested Territories ; 26. The Security Council and International Law on Military Occupations ; 27. The Security Council and Terrorism ; 28. The Security Council and the Use of Private Force ; Appendices ; 1. UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006 ; 2. UN Forces, Missions, and Institutions not Classified as Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006 ; 3. UN-Authorized Military Operations, 1945 - 2006 ; 4. UN-Authorized Sanctions, 1945 - 2006 ; 5. Vetoed Security Council Resolutions, 1945 - 2006 ; 6. Uses of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, 1950 - 2006 ; 7. List of Armed Conflicts and Crises, 1945 - 2006

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Book SynopsisPakistan''s army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India''s slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army employs non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. The Pakistan army started three wars with India over Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999 and failed to win any of them. It has sustained a proxy war in Kashmir since 1989 using Islamist militants, some of whom have now turned their guns against the Pakistani state. The Pakistan army has supported non-Islamist insurgencies throughout India as well as a country-wide Islamist terror campaign that have brought the two countries to the brink of war on several occasions. Despite Pakistan''s efforts to coerce India, it has only achieved modest successes. Even though India vivisected Pakistan in 1971, Pakistan continues to see itself as India''s equal and demands thTrade Reviewshe concentrates on the international dimensions of the policies pursued by the Pakistani army and the implications that this has forregional and international security. * Katharine Adeney, Political Studies Review *A provocative but historically justified look at the security narrative scribed and fiercely protected by the Pakistan military since its 1947 inception. * Thomas F. Lynch III, Book of the year 2014, The War on the Rocks *Fairs book, based on a meticulous analysis of literature published by Pakistans military, persuasively demonstrates that the delusions of grandeur which drive the countrys security establishment are rooted in fatal distortions of history. * Kapil Komireddi, Book of the year 2014, New Republic *the book represents a valuable contribution to the literature. It has been deeply and thoroughly researched, with an extensive analysis of the official documents of the Pakistan army previously overlooked by scholarship on the subject. * Filippo Boni, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *a very important work which should be made available to as wide an audience as possible * R. F. Rosner, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs *Christine Fair has produced the definitive intellectual biography of the Pakistan army, which will be necessary reading for anyone interested in the country or South Asia as a whole. * Walter C. Ladwig III, War in History Book *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; The Argument: Explaining Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism In the Face of Repeated Defeats ; Organization of this Volume ; Chapter 2. Can Strategic Culture Explain the Pakistan Army's Persistent Revisionism? ; Pakistan's Enduring and Expanding Revisionism ; Explaining Persistent Revisionism ; Strategic Culture Wars ; Pakistan: An Army with a Country ; Reproducing Culture: Recruitment in the Pakistan Army ; Methods and Sources of this Study ; Chapter 3. Born an Insecure State ; Cracking the Raj ; Imagining Pakistan ; The Problem of the Princely States ; Untangling the Punjab ; Breaking Up the Indian Army ; Historical Legacies: A Punjabi Army ; Building a Modern Army ; Table 2.1: Corps and Locations ; Implications for the Pakistan Army's Strategic Culture ; Chapter 4. The Army's Defense of Pakistan's 'Ideological Frontiers' ; The Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Embrace of the Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Methods of Islamization ; The Army's Instrumentalization of Islam ; Implications ; Chapter 5. Pakistan's Quest for Strategic Depth ; British Management of the Frontier: The Great Game ; Pakistan's Army Seeks Strategic Depth: Managing Pakistan's Frontier and Beyond ; The Army Manages the Afghan Threat ; The Rise and Fall of the Taliban ; The Army's and the Internal Threat on the 'Frontier' ; Implications: Is the Past Prologue for Afghanistan and the Frontier? ; Chapter 6. India under the Pakistan Army's Gaze ; Multiple Crises and Four Wars ; India: Through the Eyes of the Pakistan Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 7. Seeking Security through Alliances ; Pursuing the Americans: An Alliance for Survival ; The Pakistan Tilt ; Chasing China: The All-Weather Friend ; The Strains of War ; Pakistan's Relations with the United States and China through the Eyes of the Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 8. Seeking Security under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Nuclear Program ; Proliferation Under the Eye of the State ; Nuclear Doctrine and Use ; Risk Taking Under an Expanding Nuclear Umbrella ; As Bad As it Gets? ; Table 8.1 Cross Tabulations of Conflict Months by Nuclear Status ; Table 8.2: Conflict Rate by Nuclear Period ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 9. Jihad under the Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Use of Non-state Actors ; From Peoples' War to Low Intensity Conflict under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Pakistan's Militant Assets ; Pakistani Support for the Militants? ; The Internal Jihad: A Case Study of Lashkar-e-Taiba ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 10. Is the Past Prologue ; Endogenous Game Changers ; Democratic Transition? ; Economic Shocks-For Better and for Worse ; Civil and Un-Civil Society: Impetus for Change? ; Change from Within the Army? ; Table 10.5. Punjabis versus Baloch in Balochistan ; Exogenous Sources of Change? ; Conclusions: Prospects for Change from Within and Without? ; Chapter 11. The Army's Strategic Culture and Implications for International Security ; Managing Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism? ; References ; Appendices: Maps

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Book SynopsisThe advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a remarkable group of scholars, who shed important new light on the changes effecting today''s armed forces. Beginning with a Foreword by former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, the contributors take an historical approach as they explore the ever-changing strategic, political, and fiscal contexts in which the armed forces are trained and deployed, and the constantly shifting objectives that they are tasked to achieve in the post-9/11 environment. They also offer strong points of view. Lawrence Freedman, for instance, takes the leadership to task for uncritically embracing the high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs when conventional warfare seems increasingly unlikely. And eminent psychiatrist Jonathan Shay warns that the post-battle effects of what he terms moral wounds currently receive inadequate attention from the military and the medical profession. Perhaps most troubling, Karl Eikenberry raises the issue of the political ownership of the military in an era of all-volunteer service, citing the argument that, absent the political protest common to the draft era, government decision-makers felt free to carry out military operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Andrew Bacevich goes further, writing that it''s no longer our army; it hasn''t been for years; it''s theirs [the government''s] and they intend to keep it.Looking at such issues as who serves and why, the impact of non-uniformed contractors in the war zone, and the growing role of women in combat, this volume brings together leading thinkers who illuminate the American military at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewAcademic yet accessible, this volume offers thoughtful and occasionally disturbing insights into the workings of the world's most powerful war machine. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1. The Mission by Lawrence Freedman ; 2. The Force by David Segal and Lawrence Korb ; 3. Command by Andrew Bacevich ; 4. The Armed Forces' View of War by Brian Linn ; 5. Images ; 6. Obedience and Disobedience by Errol Morris ; 7. International Comparisons by James Sheehan ; 8. Mercenaries by Deborah Avant and Renee de Nevers ; 9. Weapons by Thomas Mahnken ; 10. Casualties by Jonathan Shays ; 11. Culture: Life Inside the Military by Robert Goldich ; 12. The <"Military-Industrial Complex>" Today by Charles J. Dunlap ; 13. Gender and Sexuality by Martha McSally ; 14. Military Law by Eugene Fidell

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Book SynopsisGender is not a 'security issue', but it tells us a lot about how, why and when certain subjects are written as security concerns. Thirteen case studies on violent subjects, reason, and emotion demonstrate different ways in which we understand political violence, security, resistance, power, and agency, and how we make sense of gender.Trade Review'Gender, agency and political violence is a thought-provoking contribution to feminist debates around issues of political violence, agency/resistance and conflict resolution...The volume is an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship, providing both new empirical insights and novel methods for understanding the gendered nature of violence, both in its perpetration and subsequent (re)interpretations.' - Maria O'Reilly, King's College London, PeacebuildingTable of ContentsRethinking Gender, Agency and Political Violence; L.J.Shepherd PART I: VIOLENT SUBJECTS Masculinity, Militarism and Popular Culture: The Warrior Superhero in Hollywood; L.Crowe Masculinities, Pain and Power: Gendering Experiences of Truth Sharing in Northern Ireland; L.White (Re)Masculinizing Security? Gender and Private Military and Security Companies; J.Joachim & A.Schneiker The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements; G.Gonzalez, M.Kimmel, F.Malekahmadi & J.Tyagi PART II: REASON/RATIONALITY Power and Gendered Rationality in Western Epistemic Constructions of Female Suicide Bombings; T.Narozhna Assassins, Virgins, Scholars: Epistemologies and Geopolitics in Scholarly Knowledge on Suicide Bombing; C.Brunner From Snipers to Suicide Attacks: Exploring the Representations and Realities of Conflict in the Northern Caucasus; C.Moore Gendered Agency in Contested Truths: The Case of Hyunhee Kim (KAL858); S.Park-Kang PART III: EMOTION/EMOTIONALITY Ungendering the Links between Emotions and Violence: Towards a Political Appreciation of Empathy and Compassion; E.Hutchison & R.Bleiker Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional Communication in Representations of Female Agency in Political Violence; L.Åhäll Heartfelt Positivity as an Orthogonal Approach to Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Reading Stormheart; E.Penttinen

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Book SynopsisThe Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defence of Europe ended up in Afghanistan.Trade Review'At a time when innumerable newspaper articles, journal essays and political speeches have added more heat than light to the NATO intervention in Afghanistan, M.J. Williams gives answers with real expertise, the right historical perspective and a sound political judgement. Based on extensive research and interviews with key players on both sides of the Atlantic, this book is essential reading for anyone, layman or strategist, who wants to understand what is really at stake for the Western democracies in Afghanistan.' Dr Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning, NATO HQ 'Engaging and illuminating, Williams offers an original and stimulating take on NATO's evolution and the liberal conscience while at the same time delivering a serious reality check to advocates of democratic imperialism.' Professor Christopher Coker, London School of Economics 'An excellent and comprehensive treatment of the topic.' Conor Foley, author of The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to WarTable of ContentsIntroduction On Wars: 'Good' and 'Bad' NATO in an Age of Risk Empires of Liberty The Hedgehog and the Fox: Euro-American Visions of 9/11 Soldiers of Misfortune International (Dis)Organization Empire Lite Beyond Crisis: NATO, Afghanistan and Security in a Networked World Epilogue Revisiting the Liberal Conscience

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.Trade Review"Often commented upon, close study of Hedley Bull's ideas of international order in their origins is rare. Robert Ayson's study is doubly welcome, not only in its thoroughness, but in suggesting the relevance of Bull's early experience and training for the formation of his ideas on the foundations of international order." - International AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Education of Hedley Bull The East-West Accommodation Accommodating the New Nuclear Powers Interregnum: Between London and Canberra Accommodating Asia: The View from Australia Order Through Justice? Accommodating The Third World Accommodating the World from Oxford Conclusion A Chronology of Hedley Bull's Main Publications Hedley Bull: A Timeline

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Book SynopsisAmerican women have had a sterling tradition of courage, sacrifice, and dedication in support roles in the armed services in times of war, and as spies, guerrilla leaders, and frontline correspondents.Table of ContentsA Nightmare in Vietnam Female Trailblazers "You Have a Debt to Democracy" Secret Missions A Conspiracy to Murder Hitler Lady Spies and a Blonde Guerrilla A Hair-Raising Escape Two Spymistresses in Manila Cracking a Man's World An Ordeal in Southeast Asia Lady Generals and Lady Birds A Painful Homecoming Clash over the Service Academies First Crisis for the Coed Army "Your Mission Is to Win Our Wars" A New View in the Pentagon "General, You Are a Male Chauvinist!" A Plan to Register Women An Episode in Panama Scud Missiles, Culture Problems, and POWs "We're Talking About the Battlefront" A Spirited Debate Fallout from a Tailhook Convention "Today's Battlefield Is More Horrific" Charges and Countercharges Trials and Tribulations Two Admirals Walk the Plank The Ike Makes History Tragedy on an Aircraft Carrier A Sea Cruise Plays to Mixed Reviews Navigating Troubled Waters The Admiral Boorda Tragedy Notes and Sources Index Photo Section

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Book SynopsisExamining how war has defined modern America, this text argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as important as the Revolution, the end of the frontier, and other watersheds in American history.

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Book SynopsisProvides a volume on remembrance and war in the 20th-century. This book locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War and the Holocaust. It has images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war.Trade Review"In a characteristically vigorous and insightful manner, Jay Winter takes up one of the most influential issues of contemporary cultural comment and academic debate—memory and its relationship with history. The result is highly original and the fruit of thirty years' reflection on the subject. This book will stand alone as the contribution by a leading historian of the Great War to the field."—John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin -- John Horne

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew. Sent first to Iraq—a war he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” —and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Thou

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Book SynopsisAfter conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carry out their missions--from how they are trained to how they spot and assess potential threats. With fly-on-the-wall perspective, he captures the drama and tension that characterize agents’ lives and reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House aides.

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Book SynopsisNuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of nuclear weapons.Table of ContentsForeword - Introduction - PART 1: THE NOTION OF VIRTUAL ARSENALS; M.Mazarr - PART 2: ELEMENTS OF VIRTUAL DETERRENCE - Nuclear Doctrine; M.Brown - Command, Control, and Warning; B.Blair - Force Structure and Nuclear Infrastructure; P.Wilson - Verification and Monitoring; D.Kay - Reconstitution and Reassembly; M.Wheeler - Strategic Defenses; K.Payne - PART 3: CASE STUDIES - Established Nuclear Weapons States; M.Mazarr - Case Study: Russia; K.Sorokin - Case Study: China; T.Kim - Case Study: France; P.Gordon - Case Study: Britain; S.Croft - Threshold Weapons States; D.Hagerty - Virtual and Non-Nuclear Weapons States; B.Roberts - PART 4: REACTIONS - Reducing the Nuclear Danger; C.Horner - Virtual Arsenals: A French View; F.Heisbourg - Thoughts on Virtual Nuclear Arsenals; K.Waltz - Virtual Arsenals: A Russian View; A.Arbatov - Further on Reconstitution Issues; P.Garrity - Virtual Arsenals: A Japanese View; A.Watanabe - Virtual Visions: Past and Future; P.Zelikow - PART 5: VIRTUAL NUCLEAR ARSENALS: A SECOND LOOK; M.Mazarr

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Book SynopsisIn the 20th century, 170 million human beings have died in wars. That makes 4630 casualties a day, 193 every hour, and 3 every minute. While 1035 billion dollars were spent on warfare in 2004, only 78.6 billion were spent on aid to developing countries. This book presents post-9/11 analysis of war.Trade Review"A stark study of human nature..... Crisp and sobering" Publishers Weekly"

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Book SynopsisThe first biography of one of George Washington's most able and controversial generals examines the military career of William Maxwell from British army commissary to commander of the New Jersey Continental troops in major northern battles and campaigns and numerous confrontations with British incursionary forces into New Jersey.Table of ContentsPreface Illustrations The Early Years Michilimackinac Rebel in Arms Canadian Counteroffensive From Ticonderoga to Morristown "Nest of American Hornets" "Damned Bitch of a General" Flight from Victory Valley Forge Monmouth and Northeastern New Jersey Civil and Military Discord "Expedition Against the Savages" Stressful Interlude New Jersey Triumph "Pure and Disinterested Principles" A Veteran's Return Abbreviations Notes Bibliography of Unpublished Sources

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Book SynopsisFor more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.Table of ContentsList of Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Acronyms - Introduction -Political Control of Nuclear Weapons in NATO - Nuclear Command and Control in NATO - US Nuclear Command and Control in NATO - Command and Control of British Nuclear Forces - French Nuclear Command and Control - Political Decision-Making in Crisis and War - Conclusions - References - Bibliography - Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Introduction Amphibious Renaissance The Torch of Combined Operations Cinderella of the Services Operational Capabilities and Lost Opportunities Amphibious Equipment Amphibious Ambassadors and Vertical Envelopment Operation Musketeer Epilogue Appendices Bibliography IndexTrade Review'In his meticulously researched book Ian Speller tells us why between 1945 and 1956, in a throw-back to pre-Second World War thinking, amphibious warfare was the orphan of British strategy, despite stunning successes such as the Allied landings in Normandy. This book is a must for anyone with a serious interest in British Defence Policy.' - Julian Thompson, Major General 'Ian Speller is the leading expert on Britain's amphibious capabilities in the post Second World War era and has produced an excellent and comprehensive survey of their evolution in the period 1945-1956. He explains in a critical but balanced manner why this key maritime warfare area suffered from the neglect that was reflect in the problems in forming an effective amphibious force for the Suez landings. The book, which contains much that is new and original, should be essential reading for students of British naval policy and British defence policy as a whole.' - Eric Grove, Centre for Security Studies, University of HullTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Amphibious Renaissance The Torch of Combined Operations Cinderella of the Services Operational Capabilities and Lost Opportunities Amphibious Equipment Amphibious Ambassadors and Vertical Envelopment Operation Musketeer Epilogue Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi

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Book SynopsisThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.   On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611  U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle.  The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies at very early ages; both had been stripped of power, and in disgrace had worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for

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Book SynopsisThis new book provides an in-depth analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault to make the case that the EUâs (self-) image as a model peacebuilder conceals another side of the European Security and Defence Policy. The authors explore the double-sided nature of peacebuilding missions, on the one hand, as a way to pacify, democratize, humanize and improve life in societies emerging from crisis or violence and, on the other hand, as a kind of political pastorate that limits the range of acceptable heterogeneity by refashioning, repositioning and reorganizing subjects in line with transcendentalized notions of good governance. The authors develop a limited reform agenda for how EU police missions can fold an agonistic generosity more deeply into their civilizing ethos in order to ensure they have a light expatriate footprint in their host countries. The prescriptive parTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Power and Governmentality 3. The EU’s Peace Support Agenda: The Development of ESDP Policy Machinery, Capabilities and Styles of Thought 4. The EUPM in Bosnia 5. EUPOL Proxima in Macedonia 6. Power/Knowledge in ESDP Police Aid 7. Towards Peacebuilding Lite: A Limited Reform Agenda for ESDP Police Missions 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThere is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against this possibility would be to strengthen existing international prohibitions against state- level acquisition of such weapons. A glimpse of the possible potential of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction has been seen through the actions of the Tokyo Aum group, and through the use of chlorine by insurgents in Iraq. However, the extent of the real threat posed is as yet unclear, and safeguarding against it in developing countries will not be easy. This book assembles specialists in each category of WMD in order to examine the potential of expanding the three classical' arms control treaties in order to combat the threat posed by smaller terrorist groups, and draws conclusions as to the strengths and weaknesses of tTable of ContentsIntroduction General 1. Material Dangers Bellany 2. Manufacturing the Means of Apocalypse: Aum Shinrikyo and the Acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction Reader Chemical and Biological 3. Chemical and Biological Terrorism and Multilateral Conventions Spiers 4. The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention: Confronting the Threat of International Terrorism Feakes 5. The Status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Relation to the Prevention of Bioterrorism Sims 6. Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention Manley Nuclear 7. Francis: The Diversion of Nuclear Materials for Terrorist Use 8. Arms Control, Game Theory and the Twenty-First Century Kilgour

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Book SynopsisThe Adelphi Papers monograph series is the International Institute for Strategic Studies' principal contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research. Collected on the occasion of the Institute's 50th anniversary, the twelve Adelphi Papers in this volume represent some of the finest examples of writing on strategic issues. They offer insights into the changing security landscape of the past half-century and glimpses of some of the most significant security events and trends of our times, from the Cold War nuclear arms race, through the oil crisis of 1973, to the contemporary challenge of asymmetric war in Iraq and Afghanistan.Trade Review'The Evolution of Strategic Thought is an excellent collection. It is recommended for all those with an interest in the development of Western strategic thought over the last half century.' - Comparative Strategy, Oct 2010, 29, p385Table of ContentsIntroduction Patrick M. Cronin 1. Evolution of NATO Alastair Buchan (Adelphi Paper 1, 1961) 2. Controlled Response and Strategic Warfare T.C. Schelling (Adelphi Paper 19, 1965) 3. The Control of Proliferation: Three Views Solly Zuckerman, Alva Myrdal and Lester B. Pearson (Adelphi Paper 29, 1966) 4. Israel and the Arab World: The Crisis of 1967 Michael Howard and Robert Hunter (Adelphi Paper 41, 1967) 5. The Asian Balance of Power: A Comparison with European Precedents Coral Bell (Adelphi Paper 44, 1968) 6. Change and Security in Europe Pierre Hassner (Adelphi Paper 49, 1968) 7. Urban Guerrilla Warfare Robert Moss (Adelphi Paper 79, 1971) 8. Oil and Influence: The Oil Weapon Examined Hanns Maull (Adelphi Paper 117, 1975) 9. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better Kenneth N. Waltz (Adelphi Paper 171, 1981) 10. Intervention and Regional Security Neil Macfarlane (Adelphi Paper 196, 1985) 11. Humanitarian Action in War Adam Roberts (Adelphi Paper 305, 1996) 12. The Transformation of Strategic Affairs Lawrence Freedman (Adelphi Paper 379, 2006)

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Trade ReviewPraise for Silent Warrior“Will thrill buffs and servicemen alike.”—Publishers Weekly

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Book Synopsis“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The PacificHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war’s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country. From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie’s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.

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