Warfare and defence Books

Book SynopsisThe defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the American republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of American claims to be the ‘indispensable nation’ in world politics, it is clear that the next few years will be decisive ones for the United States. But how did the US, which was riding high only 30 years ago, arrive at this critical point? And will it lead to the fall of what many would claim has been one of the most successful empires of modern times? In this volume, Michael Cox, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, outlines the ways in which five very different American Presidents – Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden – have addressed the complex legacies left them by their predecessors while dealing with the longer-term problems of running an empire under increasing stress. In so doing, he sets out a framework for thinking critically about US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War without ever losing sight of the biggest question of all: can America continue to shape world affairs or is it now facing long-term decline?Trade Review“With great power comes great responsibility, but as Michael Cox deftly shows in this persuasive account of US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, only when a country’s leaders can turn that power into judicious policy. In an era when American power has outstripped national will, Cox’s balanced assessment of the foreign policy missteps, miscalculations, and lapses it has wrought makes for essential reading. Scholars and students alike will benefit from these penetrating essays on what ails the American colossus.” Peter Trubowitz, Phelan US Centre at LSE“Written in an easy, conversational style that would make it an ideal introduction for college students, […] Cox’s study also deserves an audience beyond academia.” Financial Times“An illuminating survey of post-Cold War American foreign policy that will be of great use to students and professors alike.” International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Rise of an Empire Part I – Clinton: Liberal Leviathan 1. From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics 2. The Wilsonian Moment? Promoting Democracy 3. Failed Crusade? The United States and Post-Communist Russia Part II – Bush Jnr: Empire in an Age of Terror 4. American Power after the Towers 5. Empire, Imperialism and the Bush Doctrine Part III – Obama: Towards a Post-American World? 6. Navigating the Rapids 7. Stresses across the Atlantic 8. Axis of Opposition: China, Russia and the West Part IV – Trump: Turbulence in the Age of Populism 9. Populism, Trump and the Crisis of Globalization 10. Trump’s World: The Legacy Part V – Biden: Is America Back? 11. After the Deluge or Whither the Empire?

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Book SynopsisExploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on big data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, the book explores the ways in which technology presents sites for gender-based violence. Crucially, it examines potential avenues for resistance at these sites, especially regarding the actions of major tech companies, surveillance by repressive governments and attempts to use the Global South as a laboratory for new interventions. The book draws valuable insights that will be essential to researchers in international relations, security studies and feminist security studies.Trade Review"Henshaw’s Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security offers a comprehensive analysis of the role of digital technologies in promoting gender security, while also providing a nuanced exploration of the potential benefits and challenges of digital technologies in the context of gender-based violence." International AffairsTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Conceptualizing Inequality and Insecurity in the Digital Age 2. Big Data and the Security of Women: Where We Are and Where We Could Be Going 3. Addressing the Digital Gender Gap Part 2: Social Media, Surveillance, and Gender-Based Violence Online 4. Extremism and Gender-Based Violence Online 5. Technological Surveillance, States, and Gendered Insecurity Part 3: Futures of Technology, Gender, and Security 6. Resistance, Resilience, and Innovation 7. Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, and Blockchain: Gender Issues in Political Economy and Security 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOn the morning of April 9, 1917, troops of the Canadian Corps under General Julian Byng attacked the formidable German defences of Vimy Ridge. Since then, generations of Canadians have shared a deep emotional attachment to the battle, inspired partly by the spectacular memorial on the battlefield. Although the event is considered central in Canadian military history, most people know very little about what happened during that memorable Easter in northern France. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment draws on the work of a new generation of scholars who explore the battle from three perspectives. The first assesses the Canadian Corps within the wider context of the Western Front in 1917. The second explores Canadian leadership, training, and preparations and details the story of each of the four Canadian divisions. The final section concentrates on the commemoration of Vimy Ridge, both for contemporaries and later generations of Canadians. This long-overdue collection, based on original research, replaces mythology with new perspectives, new details, and a new understanding of the men who fought and died for the remarkable achievement that was the Battle of Vimy Ridge.Trade Review"Clarifying what actually happened before, on, and after 9 April 1917 is overdue in a year when Canada's government has given orders to celebrate a ninety-year anniversary and when virtually none of the original participants will be alive to complicate the ceremonies with their own memories. I welcome [in Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment ] a number of innovative contributions, notably when the text sets Vimy in the context of the British Arras offensive, when it underlines the British contribution to the Canadian Corps operations, and explores the contributions and problems of specific branches of the service, such as artillery engineers and medical corps. Not only have the authors dissected the battle, they have contributed to an understanding of all those myriad but vital elements of victory that most historians ignore except for specialist audiences. This book restores a fuller historical context to the capture of Vimy Ridge without undermining, in any substantive way, the pride Canadians can take in their achievement." -- Desmond Morton, founding director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada"The best book on this battle remains Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold (eds.), Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Assessment ." -- Major John R. Grodzinski, CD, MA, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -- Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1"The problem with any narrative that sees Canada maturing form colony to nation on the top of Vimy Ridge is that is misrepresents both the nature of the Canada Corps' victory and exaggerates its place in Canadian constitutional development. A scholarly `reassessment' of Canada's most heralded military achievement is thus long overdue and welcome....Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, and Mike Bechthold...have delivered a worthy addition to a body of literature that is disproportionately small in relation to the magnitude of Vimy's contribution to Canadian nationalism. The authors have managed to clarify some persistent misconceptions about the Canadian Corps and have clearly demonstrated the value of ongoing study of this monumental event." -- Jody Perrun, University of Manitoba -- H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisIn September 1994, Lawrence P. Rockwood, then a counterintelligence officer with the U.S. Army's Tenth Mountain Division, was deployed to Haiti as part of Operation Restore Democracy, the American-led mission to oust the regime of Raoul Cedras and reinstall President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after arriving in-country, Captain Rockwood began receiving reports of human rights abuses at the local jails, including the murder of political prisoners. He appealed to his superiors for permission to take action but was repeatedly turned down. Eventually, after filing a formal complaint with an army inspector general, he set off to inspect the jails on his own. The next day, Captain Rockwood found himself on a plane headed back to the United States, where he was tried by court-martial, convicted on several counts, and discharged from military service. In this book, Rockwood places his own experience within the broader context of the American military doctrine of ""command responsibility"" - the set of rules that holds individual officers directly responsible for the commission of war crimes under their authority. He traces the evolution of this doctrine from the Civil War, where its principles were first articulated as the ""Lieber Code,"" through the Nuremberg trials following World War II, where they were reaffirmed and applied, to the present. Rockwood shows how in the past half-century the United States has gradually abandoned its commitment to these standards, culminating in recent Bush administration initiatives that in effect would shield American commanders and officials from prosecution for many war crimes. The Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prison abuse scandals, the recently disclosed illegal CIA detention centers, the unprecedented policy of tolerating acts considered as torture by both international standards and U.S. military doctrine, and the recent cover-ups of such combat-related war crimes as the Haditha massacre of November 2005, all reflect an ""official anti-humanitarian"" trend, Rockwood argues, that is at odds with our nation's traditions and principles.Trade ReviewThis book is a forceful, reasoned, informed, and convincing call to duty to the entire military. It comes from one who saw his duty and did it, and continues to do it to this day. - Stephen Wrage, United States Naval Academy (from the Foreword)

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Book SynopsisJoe Olexa enlisted in the US Army in December 1940, figuring that if he was going to be in a war, he might as well start training. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed “The Big Red One,” he served in Company L of its 26th Infantry Regiment for the next four years. Along the way he trained with the division in maneuvers in the United States; shipped to England in 1942; landed at Oran, Algeria, in the Operation Torch landings of November 1942; and fought in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and Germany. Olexa was one of the first group of enlistees that brought the division up to full strength in the buildup prior to Pearl Harbor, and was a sergeant by the time he went overseas. He served as a squad leader, platoon sergeant, and acting platoon leader, outlasting nearly all the men in his company. His memoir features accounts of unusual adventures in Tunisia when his battalion was detached from the rest of the division, and presents a detailed and intense account of his platoon’s experiences at El Guettar. Later, Olexa became a “Sea Scout,” going ashore on Sicily the night before the invasion to provide signals to guide landing craft onto the beach at Gela. After landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Olexa was selected by his battalion commander to hunt snipers and lead patrols in addition to his usual duties, and he fought in Normandy until wounded in late June. He rejoined his company in mid-September 1944 and was heavily involved in the capture of Aachen in October. His memoir, originally composed in the late 1970s and expertly edited and annotated by James Smither, offers remarkable insights into the experiences of an ordinary soldier who found himself in truly extraordinary situations.

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Book SynopsisMy Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a B-24 top turret gunner and flight engineer, wrote a memoir of his World War II experiences. On a mission to Regensburg, Germany, his bomber, ravaged by German fighters, was shot down. He was captured and spent fifteen months in German stalag prisons. His memoir, the core of this unique book, details his training, combat, and prisoner-of-war experience in a truthful, introspective, and compelling manner.Fred H. Allison, the author and Oscar’s nephew, gained access to family letters that supplement Oscar’s story and bring to light the experiences of Oscar’s brothers. Harold Allison, the author’s father, was sidelined from combat as a bomber copilot due to a health condition. The letters also tell of the brother who did not come home, Wiley Grizzle Jr., a P-51 fighter pilot. Wiley’s last mission brought his squadron of Mustangs into a pitched battle with German fighters bound for the front to attack American troops.The letters also introduce the boys’ family, who fought the battle of the home front on their farm in New Mexico. Allison reveals the burden home folks bore for their boys in combat and then the emotional trauma from the dreaded War Department letters announcing “missing in action” or “killed in action.” Allison conducted extensive research in the official records and in secondary sources to give context to the memoir and letters. My Darling Boys brings a new and important aspect to personal accounts of World War II combat, giving the reader a unique blend of first-person military action tied to the home front family.Trade Review“This is a distinctive memoir. Because this work focuses on three brothers at war but also on the home front and what their family experienced, it gives the reader a wider lens through which to view Americans’ experiences in the war.” - Robert S. Ehlers Jr., author of The Mediterranean Air War: Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II “Allison has provided much context concerning family history, as well as background for significant issues related to WWII. The context provided for the personal letters is nearly always well timed, well placed, and vital to the impact of the letters. The way Allison dealt with the letters related to Oscar's shootdown and imprisonment is to be commended, and the way he introduced the letters related to Wiley’s death and subsequent search for answers is quite moving.” - Kelly Crager, author of Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway “Fred Allison shares his family’s World War II experiences with the skilled analysis of a professional historian. Based on a surviving uncle’s memoire of the war, and the quest to learn of another uncle who never returned, Allison guides us through family letters, interviews, and the history of the period - the “Good War” and its effect on the Homefront. My Darling Boys is a moving and personal insight of those who served, and their families who waited for them to come home.” - Gene B. Preuss, public historian, University of Houston-Downtown “The Darling Boys were the quintessential young men of America who went off to fight in World War II. In this very sweet tale, Fred Allison, a preeminent military historian, weaves family legends, memoirs, and war letters together with deep historical and archival research into a compelling narrative of three young Depression-era members of the Allison family as they became combat aviators and served in the European theater. His research is masterful, and the personal narratives are enriching. It is a great story of aerial combat in that war, the travail of those who waited at home, and the role of American families in supplying us with those heroic young warriors. This book is an enjoyable, touching, and first-class read and reminds us of the human costs of war--both for the warriors who go forth into battle and for those who wait for them at home.” - Colonel (ret.) Darrel Whitcomb, combat veteran and military historian

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Book SynopsisThe epic World War II battles between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are the subject of a vast literature, but little has been published in English on the experiences of ordinary Soviets - civilians and soldiers - who were sucked into a bitter conflict that marked their lives forever. Their struggle for survival, and their resistance to the invaders' brutality in the occupied territories, is one of the great untold stories of the war.This is why Nikolai Obryn'ba's unforgettable, intimate memoir is so valuable. Written late in the author's life, it tells of Operation Barbarossa, during which he was taken prisoner; the horrors of SS prison camps; his escape; his war fighting behind German lines as a partisan; and the world of suffering and tragedy around him. His perceptive, uncompromising account lays bare the everyday reality of war on the Eastern Front.

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Book SynopsisIn 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.” Though a world war veteran for seven years, at the time he wrote Fitzgerald, Hemingway had barely scratched the surface of his war experiences in his writing, yet it would be a subject he could never resist. As an eyewitness to the emergence of modern warfare, through the Second World War, and as a writer devoted to recreating experience on the page, Ernest Hemingway has gifted us with an oeuvre of wartime representation ideal for the classroom.Teaching Hemingway and War offers fifteen original essays on Hemingway’s relationship to war with a variety of instructional settings in mind, and the contributors bring to the volume a range of experience, backgrounds, and approaches. Some of the topics included are: The Violence of Story: Teaching In Our Time and Narrative Rhetoric Hemingway’s Maturing View of the Spanish Civil War Robert Jordan’s Philosophy of War in For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, PTSD, and Clinical Depression Perceptions of Pain in The Sun Also Rises Across the River and into the Trees as Trauma Literature The final section provides three excellent undergraduate essays as examples of what students are capable of producing and as contributions to Hemingway studies in their own right.

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Book SynopsisGene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in the Philippines and Japan. Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen’s squadron at the beginning of the war, sixty-five survived to return to the United States. We Refused to Die recounts Jacobsen’s struggle, against all odds, to remain one of those sixty-five men.In engaging, direct prose, Jacobsen’s three-and-a-half year experience as a prisoner of war takes the reader on a brutal and harrowing march through hatred and forgiveness, fortitude and freedom. We Refused to Die is an honest memoir that shines light on one of history’s darkest moments.Table of ContentsPrologue1. Attack on Pearl Harbor 2. Enemy over Clark Field 3. Japanese Invasion of the Philippines 4. The Orange Plan 5. Raw Recruits 6. Goodbye, Good Luck, and God Bless You 7. Christmas 1941 8. The Battle for Bataan 9. Surrender 10. Death March out of Bataan 11. Camp O’Donnell 12. The Tayabas Work Detail13. Bilibid Prison 14. Cabanatuaan Prison Camp 15. Mother’s Door in ‘44 16. Exodus from the Philippines to Japan 17. Camp No.17, Omuta, Japan 18. Still Alive in ‘45 19. Senso Yamu! 20. Waiting for the Yanks 21. Returns to the Philippines 22. Home at LastEpilogueAuthor’s Chronology Roster of the 20th Pursuit Squadron, April 9, 1942About the Artist, Benjamin Clark Steele

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Book SynopsisThe life of Patrick Edward Connor serves as a half-century slice of western American history. After leaving New York City, where he had arrived at the age of twelve as a poor Irish immigrant, the nineteen-year-old youth joined the U.S. Army in 1839. He fought in the war with Mexico and then joined the gold rush in California until marrying and settling down in Stockton in 1854. The Civil War found him volunteering again, this time as colonel of California troops sent to the Utah Territory to protect the mail lines from Indian attacks. Bitterly anti-Mormon, Connor spent the war years alternately engaging in a war of words with Brigham Young or in fighting Indians in northern Utah and present-day Wyoming. After the Civil War, ex-Major General Connor began mining operations in Utah and Nevada, ventures that went from boom to bust. He spent his final years in straitened financial circumstances. Patrick Edward Connor was a ""Man of the West,"" possessing both its prejudices and its democratic, independent spirit. His greatest success lay as a military leader, and he would have agreed that he was made for war, not peace. He left an imprint on the history of the American West, remembered as the founder of Fort Douglas, as the ""first gentile in Utah,"" the ""father of Utah mining,"" and the ""father of the Liberal Party in Utah.""Trade ReviewWinner of Utah State History's Best Military History Award “A thoroughly satisfying look at this charged Utahn. Based on impressive research into a broad array of primary and secondary source materials, Madsen’s portrait of Connor emerges as distinctly balanced.”—Montana: The Magazine of Western History “Madsen sketches a significant portrait of a heretofore marginally known personage in western history. Glory Hunter is recommended reading.” —New Mexico Historical Review

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Book SynopsisThe First Washington Conference, codenamed Arcadia, was a secret meeting held in the days immediately following the entrance of the United States into World War II. It was the first meeting between the United States and Britain to determine military strategy. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and their top military advisors spent hours making major decisions that would determine the direction of the Allied war effort. The main achievement of the conference was the 'Europe first' decision, declaring that the defeat of Germany was the highest priority.Neither side knew what to expect before this momentous meeting. Before the war, the British and the Americans had differing strategic concerns, especially about the Pacific and East Asia: differences of such contrast that the conference was in jeopardy of ending early if not resolved. The narrative uses a chronological approach that examines in detail each day of the conference. This day-by-day methodology shows the gradual development of rapport between the allied chieftains, why and how it forged relationships, and the undercurrent of tension as each ally sought to ensure its national interests while cooperating with the other in a grand alliance.Historian and retired Brigadier General John F. Shortal skillfully unravels the inside story of this pivotal meeting. He shows how the working and personal relationships between Roosevelt and Churchill, as well as their military chiefs of staffs, first took root and then blossomed during the conference. Code Name Arcadia makes a major contribution not only to the history of World War II, but also to our understanding of the power structure of the postwar world.

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Book SynopsisThe Perfect Officer focuses on the careers of a group of brilliant officers from the Napoleonic Wars and up to our own times: what they did right, what they did wrong, and what lessons they drew from their experiences. The book's recurring theme is the importance of imagination, and it demonstrates how these men were constantly inspired by each other and borrowed each other's ideas. A number of these lessons are equally applicable in the civilian sphere, with one notable difference: If a business leader errs, he may lose his position or his investment. An officer risks losing his life and the lives of the men entrusted to his command.

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Book SynopsisAs the Vietnam War was beginning to turn towards its bitter end, Le Quan fought under beloved general Tran Ba Di in the army of South Vietnam. An unlikely encounter thrust the two men together, and they developed a mutual respect in their home country during wartime. Forty years later, the two men reconnected in a wholly unlikely setting: a family road trip to Key West.Soldier On is written by Le Quan's daughter, who artfully crafts the road trip as a frame through which the stories of both men come to life. Le Quan and Tran Ba Di provide two different views of life in the South Vietnamese army, and they embody two different realities of the aftermath of defeat. Le Quan was able to smuggle his family out of Saigon among the so-called boat people, eventually receiving asylum in America and resettling in Texas. General Tran Ba Di, on the other hand, experienced political consequences: he spent seventeen years in a re-education camp before he was released to family in Florida.A proud daughter's perspective brings this intergenerational and intercontinental story to life, as Tran herself plumbs her remembrances to expand the legacy of the many Vietnamese who weathered conflict to forge new futures in America.Trade ReviewSoldier On tells intersecting stories of war and immigration from the eyes of two Vietnamese men; Tran Quan compellingly evokes these two refugee voices and provides insight into their times." --Susan J. Tweit, author of Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying

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Book SynopsisWith an increasing number of Australian military personnel being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, this collection of insightful essays examines the unseen wounds sustained by our combat and peacekeeping forces.They show there are no easy answers or simple solutions, and suggest where existing approaches are misguided, and how a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to gain a better sense of moral injury.

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Book Synopsis‘Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.’ Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coinciding with Federation, the war kickstarted Australia’s commitment to fighting in Britain’s wars overseas, and forged a national identity around it. By 1902, when the Boer War ended, a mythology about our colonial soldiers had already been crafted, and a dangerous precedent established. This is Henry Reynolds at his searing best, as he shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled us into too many unnecessary wars – without ever counting the cost.

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman and Alison Cadzow and others reveal the courage, resilience and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.

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Book SynopsisThe diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document that details with candid insight the responsibilities of senior command and shows the talent required to rise through the CEF to divisional command.The only published diary of a Canadian who held this rank in the last two (critical) years of the war, it focuses on the evolution of military leadership and associated challenges that Watson (and his peers) faced during the Great War. It recounts how he navigated not only the military battlefield in France and Belgium but also the political battlefield of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and larger British Expeditionary Force. The divisional commanders played a central role in the Corps’ transformation into a first-rate professional army, a transformation that coincided with Watson’s tenure at the 4th Division. Major-General David Watson’s personal accounts offer valuable insights into the innermost workings of the Canadian Corps at various stages during the war and in particular its emergence as an elite fighting force and the pride of a nation.Table of Contents Note on Text Introduction Chapter One: Leaving For France Chapter Two: Initial Shock Chapter Three: Promotions Chapter Four: Divisional Commander Chapter Five: At Vimy Chapter Six: Lens Chapter Seven: Passchendaele Chapter Eight: Preparing for the End Chapter Nine: The Hundred Days Chapter Ten: Belgium and Home

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Book SynopsisBad things occur and persist because of the presence of powerful beneficiaries. In this provocative and illuminating book, Imad Moosa illustrates the economic motivations behind the last 100 years of international conflict, citing the numerous powerful individual and corporate war profiteers that benefit from war. Inspired and informed by War is a Racket, the 1935 work of General Smedley Butler, the author explores historic and contemporary incidents of war profiteering, identifying individuals and groups that have increased their wealth through the supply of weaponry, mercenaries, provisions and finance in times of war. This book offers a caustic indictment of the military-industrial complex, exploring the privatisation of conflict that has fuelled war across the globe. Providing a contemporary, in-depth analysis of the economics of war, this book is critical for academics and students of war studies, international relations and military and political history. Policy makers will also benefit from this book's comprehensive analysis of wartime policy and practice.Trade Review'The Economics of War makes an important contribution to our understanding of the causes of war. By identifying the economic incentives motivating wars of aggression, Imad Moosa pulls back the curtain to reveal the stark realities of a foreign policy grounded in militarism and imperialism.' --Christopher Coyne, George Mason University, US'A passionate, uncompromising analysis of historical events that makes a compelling case that most wars were motivated by the economic gains of the few able to exercise political power that was a catastrophic cost to the many. A well-chronicled proposition that immoral acts of violence were imperialist or profiteering pursuits under the guise of humanitarian and moral actions.' --John Vaz, Monash University, Australia'Moosa looks beyond the explicit aims of war to reveal the economic and financial incentives and dimensions underpinning wars of aggression in our modern society. Not since Smedley Butler (1935) has an author so bravely critiqued the true drivers of modern warfare to reveal an uncomfortable truth: wars are about money, rather than noble causes. The book is an informative and enthralling read for anyone interested in the history and causes of war, the international legalisation of war, the micro- and macro-economic impacts of war, and war profiteering.' --Kelly Burns, Curtin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. War is a Racket: In Memory of Smedley Butler 2. The Causes of War 3. War versus Peace: The Outcome of a Binary Process 4. Imperialism as an Enterprise 5. Wars of Aggression and False Flags 6. War Profiteering, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Deep State 7. A Taxonomy of War Profiteers 8. Banks as War Profiteers 9. Further Thoughts References Index

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Book SynopsisOperation Protective Edge, launched on July 8, 2014, saw heavy fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas in Gaza. Throughout the war US government media spokespersons confirmed Israels right to self-defense against rockets and tunnels, and condemned Hamas for initiating the conflict and its use of human shields. But there is an important difference between confirmation and pro-active demonstration at the highest political level. The longstanding alliance between the United States and Israel has always been subject to the administration and president of the day. In this case, the Obama administrations support for Israels right to self-defense was qualified, and as a result the Israeli political leadership felt constrained in its ability to defeat Hamas militarily without risking criticism from the United States that would impact negatively on the special relationship. In its role as ally, the United States was careful not to apply direct political pressure on Israel. However, US government public criticisms relating to Gazan civilian loss of life damaged Israel on the international stage via harrowing media coverage surrounding the conflict. The Federal Aviation Administration order to airlines to stop flying to Israel enhanced Hamas claim that it had inflicted a strategic defeat to the Zionist State. For the last 70 years Israel has recognized that the United States is its primary strategic ally a principle initiated by Israels first Prime Minister and Defense Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Political and military policies have to be directed to prevent a rift. But the Protective Edge experience has brought to the fore that in times of crisis Israel cannot rely on a special relationship to secure its safety and must of necessity possess the political will and military ability to defend itself and to take actions that may result in a strained relationship.

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Book SynopsisRapid advances in the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution pose a critical challenge to large, complex organizations both in the private and public sectors. The national defense ecosystem is no exception. The US Department of Defense has launched a number of efforts directed towards fostering creative and entrepreneurial problem solving, while evolving better practices to absorb external innovations. Defense Technological Innovation describes the emerging paradigm for innovation at the US Department of Defense, and the consequential impacts on its stakeholders. Leveraging a combination of prior research, archival data, first-person observations and interviews, the authors identify practices and themes characterizing the key trends in defense innovation, describe current organizational approaches and practices, and develop a theoretical framework that elucidates the competencies required to underwrite defense innovation objectives. The findings therein are relevant to any large, technology-driven organization contending with the implications of rapid change in the high-tech landscape. Scholars interested in the broad areas of technology innovation, national security, defense policy, and organizational change now have a book that addresses the problem of defense innovation. It will also appeal to scholars and policymakers in strategy, security studies, international affairs, and policy.Trade Review'The authors have uniquely captured the challenges and key drivers of the defense innovation ecosystem in the US - both its current weaknesses and strengths. The ability of our defense infrastructure to integrate talent and technology from non-traditional sources is vital to our future national security. The extraordinary pace of innovation and the growing capability of our strategic competitors make their recommendations timely and a must read for any leader and organization interested in creating a culture of innovation.' --Major General Boe Young (Retired), Commanding General, 75th Innovation Command, 2015-2019 and Army Representative to the Defense Innovation Board, 2018-2019, US'This well-researched book convincingly demonstrates the importance of bringing Open Innovation to the defense sector, while adopting a clear-eyed view of the many challenges in doing so. As innovation accelerates, our military needs to open up its innovation sources, speed up its procurement systems, and adapt its administrative processes, in order to meet the challenges of our near-peer rivals in the 21st century.' --Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. The National Defense Ecosystem: Context, Challenges and Opportunities 2. Innovation and National Security 3. The New Dynamics of Technological Innovation 4. The Defense Innovation Cycle and a Framework for DOD Innovation Ecosystem 5. Defense Innovation in Practice 6. Implications for Defense Innovation Policy and Practice Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCommemorating 60 years of War Studies at King’s College London, this incisive and adroitly crafted book acts as a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of war, conflict and security. Adopting a global approach, it adeptly navigates a broad spectrum of themes and theoretical perspectives which lie at the heart of this important area of study.Bringing together contributions from an array of esteemed scholars, An Introduction to War Studies covers a diverse range of topics, including international relations theories and approaches, conflict, security and development, peace and security, intelligence and international security, the history of war, conflict resolution, strategic communication, and terrorism and society. Providing concise and thematic focus, expert contributors survey the current state of knowledge within the field and explore opportunities for future scholarly inquiry.An authoritative and seminal contribution to the study of war and conflict, this book will be essential for academics, researchers, and students of war, peace and conflict, terrorism and security, and strategic studies as well as international relations and international studies.Trade Review‘This book with its highly pertinent chapters on war and conflict celebrates the anniversary of the foundation of a Department that has become the benchmark for War Studies throughout the world. It is a pleasure to see the seeds planted by Michael Howard that multiplied and blossomed under the green fingers of Lawrence Freedman continuing to bear rich fruit.’ -- Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow, UK‘This fantastic book brings together senior scholars of war studies to highlight the important contribution that the field – and the War Studies Department at King’s College London in particular – has made to our understanding of conflict, war and peace over the last six decades. Innovations in the study of war emerging from the King’s War Studies Department, such as the intersection of conflict, security and development, have subsequently been adopted by other universities and development agencies in numerous countries. The volume should be a must read for students and practitioners alike!’ -- Karin von Hippel, Royal United Services Institute, UK‘This book offers a thorough review of the field of war studies and insightful history of the academic department that established this field. It’s an essential resource for anyone interested in the study of armed conflict in all of its dimensions.’ -- Theo Farrell, President, La Trobe University, Australia‘This is a compelling companion from the finest minds, at the finest institution for the study of war in the UK. Covering history, society, technology, politics and the impact of war, this is the perfect accompaniment for those interested in gaining a deep understanding of armed human and state conflicts.’ -- Robert Dover, University of Hull, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xvii Sir Lawrence Freedman Preface and acknowledgements xix 1 War studies at King’s College London 1 James Gow, Lawrence Freedman and Rachel Kerr 2 Conflict resolution in deeply divided societies 15 Stacey Gutkowski, Michael Kerr and Craig Larkin 3 Conflict, security and development 36 Mats Berdal 4 History of war 53 Alan James 5 Intelligence and international security 65 Huw Dylan and David Easter 6 International conflict studies: critical perspectives on conflict and security 78 Vivenne Jabri, Leonie Ansems de Vries, Kiran Phull and Stephan Engelkamp 7 International peace and security 96 James Gow, Natasha Kuhrt and Maria Varaki 8 International relations and war: complexity, interdisciplinarity, analytical plurality 110 Pablo de Orellana 9 International relations today: a long list of theories! 124 Mervyn Frost 10 National security studies 136 John Gearson, Hillary Briffa and Joe Devanny 11 Science and international security 153 Hassan Elbahtimy and Filippa Lentzos 12 Strategic communications: shaping a new century 170 Neville Bolt 13 Terrorism, security and society 183 Shiraz Maher and Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens 14 War studies online 198 David Banks, David Easter and Anne-Lucie Norton 15 War studies 208 Jan Willem Honig

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Book SynopsisThe Middle East Strategic Balance (formerly the 'Middle East Military Balance') is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, to provide an authoritative and indispensable guide to strategic developments and military capabilities in the Middle East. Governments, the media, and researchers pay close attention to the data and analysis, which offer a comprehensive insightful assessment of the complex Middle East strategic environment. The '2003-2004 Strategic Balance' provides an objective analysis of the strategic factors and events shaping the region through a rich collection of essays, together with a country by country overview of the region's military forces, including the major changes to the orders of battle, and a survey of personnel, weapons and equipment holdings, non-conventional capabilities and ballistic missiles, and other key components of military force structures. Published in association with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.Trade Review"Middle East Strategic Balance is a 'must read' for any scholar interested in an assessment of the distribution of military power in the Middle East." -- Dr Geoffrey Kemp, Nixon Center Washington."Middle East Strategic Balance offers readers a comprehensive, insightful assessment of the complex and dynamic Middle East strategic environment." -- Ambassador Samuel Lewis.Table of ContentsPastoralism & the Changing Climate in the Arid Northern Kenya; New Generation of Dietary Supplements with Microelements for Livestock -- Possibilities & Prospects; Soy Protein Products: Anti-Nutritional Factors, Classification, Processing, Quality Assessment, Nutritional value & Application in Animal Feed; Bangladesh Poultry Sector: Growth, Competitiveness & Future Potential; Parasitic Diseases in Livestock under Different Farming Practices: Possibilities for their Control; Animal Trypanosomosis: An Important Constraint for Livestock in Tropical & Sub-Tropical Regions; Surveillance & Management of Trypanosomiasis in Cattle Herds in Kauru Area, Kaduna State, Nigeria; Anthelmintic Resistance: A Giant Obstacle for Livestock Worm Control in Current Era -- A Challenge; Salmonella & Salmonellosis in Animals & Humans: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, Clinical Presentation & Treatment; Bovine Tuberculosis at the Human-Animal Interface, Situation & Possible Risk Factors of Disease in Animals in Pakistan, Future of Disease & Action Plan; Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease): Clinical Signs, Diagnosis, Lesions, Prophylaxis/Treatment/Control & Zoonotic Potential; Changes in Consumers' Food Purchases Due to New Legislation on Food Labeling May Affect Livestock Production Practices in the United States; Index.

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Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the Latin Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish-Palestinian war from December 1947 to mid-May 1948 and the consecutive Israeli-Arab war. It follows the organization of both sides at the beginning of the war and the shaping of their respective war policies. Further, it describes the creation of the invading coalition and its disintegration in the wake of the Arab armies' military failure. The book stresses mainly the processes that led Palestinian society to its collapse and mass flight and the Israeli reactions and policies that turned this temporary escape into a long-lasting refugee problem. Emphasizing the different historical and cultural perspectives of the adversaries and the context of the war's development, it criticises the approach of the Israeli 'New Historians' who tend to isolate the refugee problem from the broader issues of the war and treat it separately. Includes a glossary of Arab/Israeli wartime operations.Trade Review"Recommended for its contribution to a continuing debate over a controversial issue..." -- Choice. "There have been flashier histories of Israel's war of independence, and longer ones, but none as well informed, more sensible and more compelling than Gelber's magisterial account..." -- Middle East Quarterly"Yoav Gelber's contribution to the literature on 1948 is useful for its detailed chronology of Israel's most significant and triumphal campaign against the Arabs... The book's value lies in its shedding light on the loose alliances unfolding in the Middle East." -- Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Oxford University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Outbreak and Expansion of Hostilities; The Palestinians' Organisation for War; The Arab League's Intervention; Shaping the Yishuv's War Policy; The Beginnings of the Palestinian's Mass-Flight; From a Civil War to Regular Warfare; Palestinian Society's Collapse; The Arab Regular Armies' Invasion of Palestine; Fighting and Flight After the Invasion; The Ten-Day Campaign and the Second Truce; The Palestinian's Decay; Diplomacy and Intrigues; Operations in the Negev; The End of the War with Lebanon and Syria; Ending the War with Lebanon and Syria; Ending the War with Egypt and Transjordan; Welcoming the Refugees in the Arab States; From Flight to Refugeeism: Blocking the Return; Index.

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Book SynopsisSalud! reviews the enormously valuable contribution of the volunteers who left Britain to serve with the Republican Medical Services during the Spanish Civil War. Acknowledgement is given to the immense effort and self-sacrifice made by men and women from all walks of life who, working ceaselessly in the rearguard, made it possible for the medical teams to function in Spain. Such was the case in Britain where, in spite of the government's official policy of non-intervention, there was a campaign of fervent support for the legitimate Republican government. The first British Medical Unit in Spain had immense political significance for the Spanish Republic. Barely a month into the start of the civil war and this small group was the first visible sign of international support. It would later become part of the Republican Medical Service and, within that, of the Medical Service of the International Brigades. Not only did volunteers help to create and to maintain an emergency medical service, some of the individuals involved were also responsible for important developments that were of relevance to later military-medical practice and also to the history of medicine in general. Medical personnel generally worked in dreadful conditions, for hours and even days without rest, and with a lack of equipment and provisions of all kinds. They were mostly young and inexperienced men and women who suddenly found themselves thrown together in desperate circumstances, with the task of salvaging something of life amidst the inhumanity and mayhem. That they rose to the challenge is, in itself, worthy of tribute. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish.

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Book SynopsisSpain's Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the Spanish Civil War between the Battle of Madrid in November 1936 and the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of the iconic events of the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions of the conflict were decisively shaped. The subject is approached through French and British newspapers and pamphlets, and events are linked to both their immediate press coverage and subsequent literary and artistic representations. For contemporaries, the aerial bombardments of Madrid, Guernica and other cities formed part of a single unbroken narrative. It was only later that Guernica acquired its perceived symbolic primacy. The 'language of martyrdom' was sometimes evoked in pro-Republican writing as a means of challenging Francoist claims to the religious and moral high ground. But the ur-text was The Martyrdom of Madrid (1937), a compilation of the posthumous, censored reports of the French correspondent Louis Delaprée on the bombing of Madrid. Delaprée's earliest reporting (July-October 1936) was from both the Nationalist and Republican zones, and is used to provide an introductory overview of the early stages of the war; he was an eyewitness of the aerial bombardments of Madrid in November 1936; subsequently, the posthumous publication of his writings created a major stir in Paris. Delaprée's powerful and emotive writing provides a platform from which to discuss issues of press censorship and journalistic practice. It is notable for its initial impact, when publication in no less than five languages enabled it to reach writers as different as Virginia Woolf and André Malraux. This book shows that Delaprée's reports were also an important catalyst in Picasso's artistic involvement in the war, culminating in his Guernica. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

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Book SynopsisThis major new reference collection reprints the most important published papers on the problems of war finance under varying constraints imposed by institutions, technology, geography, and strategy from the time of Alexander the Great to the Gulf War in 1991. Larry Neal has written a new comprehensive introduction to accompany the volumes.Table of ContentsVolume I War from antiquity to artillery: the wars of antiquity; the wars of the Middle Ages; the wars of Early Modern Europe. Volume II War in the 18th and 19th centuries: war of League of Augsburg and war of the Spanish Succession; Seven Years War; American War of Independence; the wars of the Modern Age - French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War. Volume III War in the 20th century: World War I; World War II; Korean War; the Cold War; the Gulf War.

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Book SynopsisThe exploration of the Viking age is aided today by the efforts of 'living history' groups in several countries. Their painstaking reconstruction of the material evidence of Viking life, in peace and war, is recorded in this fascinating selection of nearly 200 colour photographs of historical re-enactment from Scandinavia, Germany and Britain, accompanied by full captions and a concise but detailed historical text.

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Book SynopsisThis book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish-Palestinian war from December 1947 to mid-May 1948 and the consecutive Israeli-Arab war.Trade Review"Yoav Gelber's contribution to the literature on 1948 is useful for its detailed chronology of Israels most significant and triumphal campaign against the Arabs... The books value lies in its shedding light on the loose alliances unfolding in the Middle East." -- Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Oxford University Press.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; The Outbreak and the Expansion of Hostilities; The Palestinians' Organisation for War; The Arab League's Intervention; Shaping the Yishuv's War Policy; The Beginnings of the Palestinians' Mass-Flight; From a Civil War to Regular Warfare; Palestinian Society's Collapse; The Arab Regular Armies' Invasion of Palestine; Fighting and Flight after the Invasion; The Ten-Day Campaign and the Second Truce; The Palestinians' Decay; Diplomacy and Intrigues; Operations in the Negev; The End of the War with Lebanon and Syria; Ending the War with Egypt and Transjordan; Welcoming the Refugees in the Arab States; From Flight to Refugeeism: Blocking the Return; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisFrederick Herman von Schomberg was born into a prominent noble family in the Palatinate in 1615. He was a truly international figure: his father negotiated the marriage of Britain's Princess Royal (James I's daughter, Elizabeth) to the Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Having an English mother and a German father, he would go on to marry a French Huguenot lady, and fight in the armies of more than six nations. His career spans the mercenary system of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) through to the formation of Europe's first true standing national armies during William III's wars in the 1690s. He was involved in the international politics and diplomacy of Louis XIV's reign, and that king's relations with Britain and the Netherlands in particular. He was also deeply concerned in the plight and exile of the Huguenots in France, and their later international presence in the armies of William of Orange. As a committed Protestant, he suffered the same prejudices in France as they, and his feeling for them is a vital comment on the strength of religious feeling among many high-ranking military leaders at the time.Table of ContentsFrederic Armand, Duc de Schomberg; Frederick Herman, first Duke of Schomberg; Meinhard, third Duke of Schomberg; Prologue; Antecedents; The Netherlands; France; Portugal; England; Dutch War; Revocation; Ireland; Schombergs Heirs; Conclusion; Schomberg Genealogy; Sixteen Quarters of Nobility of Charles von Schomberg, styled Marquis of Harwich; Petition of the Protestants of France; Panegyrick to the Memory of Schomberg; Present State of Christendom; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situations to illustrate best practices in goal setting, developing leadership amid institutional politics, and ways to benefit those you mentor. With a strong focus on research and tenure application and an inclusive point of view, this guide will be a key companion in many a professors’ development.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies. It reveals how the experience of war trauma takes root in everydayness and shows how artists try to question the ‘normality’ of the everyday, to actualise the memory of war trauma, to rethink the contrasting experiences of the time of war and everydayness, and to oppose the imposed historical narratives. The new representations are analysed by developing theories of war as a ‘magic spectacle’, also by using such concepts as spectres, triumph and trauma, collective social catastrophes, forensic architecture and others.Table of Contents1. ​Introduction.2. Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe.3. The Holocaust in the Screen Memory of the USSR.4. The Conflict of Photographic and Cinematographic Representations of War in Soviet Lithuania.5. The Architecture of Lingering War in Everyday Life: Photography and the Double Time of Military Apparatus.- 6. The Erasure of Trauma and its Visualisation in Post-Soviet East European Cinema.7. Manifestations of Specters of War: Deimantas Narkevičius’ Legend Coming True and Sergei Loznitsa’s Reflections.8. War Machine, Visuality and Hypernormalization of Humans and Non-Human Lives in Works by Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl.9. From Sites of Atrocities to Film of Death and Vice Versa.

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Book SynopsisThis book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators on Irish defence policy, military leaders from across the service components of the Irish Defence Forces and European defence experts to contribute to the first in-depth conversation and analysis on modern Irish defence and its application within the European Union. The aim of this edited book is to ascertain what capabilities are robust, which are lacking, what future threats need to be catered for, and what action is needed to ensure those threats will be addressed going forward. This book will explore emerging issues and applications of modern and contemporary threats within the context of Ireland, Europe and Western institutions. We have invited submissions from scholars, commentators, policymakers and military practitioners to evaluate the Irish Defence Forces and to illustrate the complexities facing small nations in formulating and resourcing defence and national security policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Theme One: Defence Forces Capabilities & The Threat Environment. Chapter 1. Ensuring the Jungle Doesn’t Grow Back: The Obligations Inherent to Irish Defence Policy.- Chapter 2. The GOC’s Perspective.- Chapter 3. A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual and Communications Culture of the Irish Defence Forces at a time of Emergent/Imminent Domestic and International Threats.- chapter 4. The Irish Naval Service: The Burden of the Minimalist Approach.- Chapter 5. Small Navies: Lessons for the Irish Naval Service.- Theme Two: The Reserve Defence Forces. Chapter 6.Revitalizing the Irish Army Reserve post-Commission on the Defence Forces: Moving from the Single Force Concept to a Total Force Policy.- Chapter 7. The Army Reserves – The Force-multiplier for Irish Defence.- Chapter 8. Ireland’s Naval Service Reserve – An Analysis of Current Capabilities and Role for the Future.- Theme Three: Peacekeeping Operations. Chapter 9. Decolonisation, Conflict, and Independence: The Impact of History on Ireland’s Approach to Peacekeeping.- Chapter 10. Ireland’s Largest Peacekeeping Mission – The Irish Defence Forces in UNIFIL.- Chapter 11. Peacekeeping in the Digital Age: Future Threats and Capability Requirements.- Theme Four: Cyber Security in the Digital Age. Chapter 12. Irish Cyber Security.- Chapter 13. Cyber resilience for Europe’s armed forces in the 21st Century – a German Perspective.- Chapter 14. The Irish Defence Forces in the Drone Age.- Theme Five: Defence Forces Institutional Innovation and Civil-Military Relations. Chapter 15. The Defence Forces Research Technology Initiative.- Chapter 16. Shared Norms but Policy Incoherence: Analysing the Irish Defence Forces’ Marketplace Aspirations.- Chapter 17. Representation, Negotiation, and Frustration. What path lies ahead for civil-military industrial relations.- Theme Six: The Principle of Irish Neutrality. Chapter 18. Ireland, NATO and the “Return of Geopolitics” in Europe.- Chapter 19. Irish Military Neutrality 1924-1945: A Historical Perspective for Modern Consideration.- Chapter 20. Generating More Heat Than Light? The Debate over Ireland’s Neutrality and the “European Army”.- Chapter 21. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from ‘trauma’ and towards ‘resilience’ in framing and understanding human responses to calamitous events. The contributors to this volume show how resilience-speech has been militarized, and deeply entrenched in imagined communities. As the concept travels, it is applied in diverse and often contradictory ways to a vast array of experiences, contexts, and scientific fields and disciplines. By embracing diverse methodologies and perspectives, this book reflects on how resilience has been weaponized and employed in highly gendered ways, and how it is central to neoliberal governance in the twenty-first century. While critical of the use of resilience, the chapters also reflect on more positive ways for humans to respond to unforeseen challenges.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience.- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology.- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit.- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD.- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases.- 5. ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps.- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management.- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality.- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy.- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives.- 9. Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a state-of-the-art analysis of India’s foreign and security policies, examining e.g. the country’s security, economic and trade ties and interactions with Pakistan, China, the United States, Japan, the Middle East and ASEAN. Furthermore, the contributors provide the reader with an overview and analysis of the quality and challenges of India’s regional and global trade and investment policies. While in the past India has been a reluctant and not particularly prominent foreign and security policy actor in East and Southeast Asia as well as globally, China’s resurgence and its assertive and increasingly aggressive regional security policies have led India’s policymakers to reconsider the country’s decades-old non-alignment policies and opt for expanding security and defence ties with the United States, Japan and others. The Indian-Chinese border clashes in 2020 and China’s unlawful occupation of disputed territories along the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have convinced Delhi’s policymakers and the country’s security and defence elites that India is well advised to join and contribute to US-led China containment policies. The expansion of India’s security and defence ties with Japan over recent years in particular will continue to be instrumental to keeping Beijing’s territorial expansionism in Southeast and South Asia in check. This volume analyses India’s involvement and engagement in regional and global trade and investment structures and flows in great detail. Written by a team of prolific European and Indian scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of international relations and security studies, as well as policymakers at governmental or international organizations.Table of Contents​Chapter 1. Introduction (Silvio Beretta).- Chapter 2. A Rising India in the Crossfire of Competing Grand Strategies (Gautam Chikermane).- Chapter 3. The Indian State and its Foreign Relations (Mario Prayer).- Chapter 4. Rethinking “Interdependence”: The Changing Nature and Context in India-China Economic Relations (Priyanka Pandit).- Chapter 5. India: Candidate Player in the Asian Economic Space. Problems and Perspectives (Giuseppe Iannini).- Chapter 6. India And International Trade (Gianluca Rubagotti).- Chapter 7. China’s Expanding Footprint in the Indian Ocean Region and the Indian Pushback (Harsh V Pant).- Chapter 8. India and China – Two Countries Marching the March of Folly (Axel Berkofsky).- Chapter 9. Kashmir as Frontier in Narendra Modi’s Ethno-Nationalist Idea of India (Emanuela Mangiarotti).- Chapter 10. India’s US Policy 1991-2014: the Gradual Loss of Strategic Autonomy (Michelguglielmo Torri).- Chapter 11. Framing India-Japan Ties for a Progressive Indo-Pacific (Jagannath Panda).- Chapter 12. India and The Gulf: The Indo–Pacific Strategy Goes West (Francesco Mazzucotelli).- Chapter 13. A “Nodal Centre”: Competing Interests in India’s Relations with ASEAN after Covid-19 (Giulia Sciorati).- Chapter 14. India’s responses to the Belt and Road Initiative: a case study of Indo-Pakistani relations (Filippo Boni)

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Book SynopsisIn der vorliegenden Analyse wird der Ist-Zustand der Bundeswehr unter der Fragestellung untersucht, ob die drei von der Verteidigungsministerin identifizierten „Leerstellen“ bei Personal, Material und Finanzen im Hinblick auf die aktuellen Bedrohungen nachhaltig und substanziell beseitigt werden können. Im zweiten Teil wird überprüft, wo und wie sich die deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik bei der Bewältigung vielfältiger Krisen und Konflikte in den letzten drei Jahren eingesetzt hat. Folgt sie der Forderung Gaucks, Steinmeiers und von der Leyens und übernimmt mehr Verantwortung im internationalen Krisenmanagement mit Rückgriff, wenn geboten, auf deutsche Streitkräfte? Spiegelt sich in einer aktiveren deutschen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik die Haltung der deutschen Öffentlichkeit wider?Trade Review“… Die Studie richte sich … an Studierende und Lehrende der Politikwissenschaft sowie an Journalisten und Politiker. … Wer zusätzliche Informationen sucht und tiefer in die Problematik einsteigen möchte, wird mit dem bemerkenswert ausführlichen und aktuellen Literaturverzeichnis im Anhang gut bedient.” (Politische Studien, Heft 471, 2017)Table of ContentsDie Debatte um eine aktivere deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik.- Abkehr von der Schrumpfkur.- Deutschlands Beiträge zum internationalen Krisenmanagement.- Mehr außenpolitische Verantwortung im Spiegel der öffentlichen Meinung.

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Book SynopsisIn diesem Sammelband untersuchen Wissenschaftler und Praktiker aus dem Politikfeld Innere Sicherheit die asymmetrische Bedrohung durch den islamistischen Terrorismus in Deutschland und leiten daraus eine dringend erforderliche Anpassung der deutschen Sicherheitsarchitektur ab.Der InhaltDas Bedrohungspotenzial durch Islamismus und islamistischen Terrorismus ● Islamistisch-terroristische Radikalisierung ● Recht als Grundlage und Schranke staatlichen Handelns bei der Bekämpfung des Terrorismus ● Terrorismusabwehr und -bekämpfung im Zeitalter strategischer Ungewissheit ● Effekte von Terrorismus und Anarchismus als Führungsproblem ● Politisch motivierte Kriminalität mit CBRN-Tatmitteln ● Reichweite und Methodenspektrum im Zeitalter islamistischer AnschlägeDie HerausgeberDr. Dirk Freudenberg ist Dozent im Referat Strategische Führung und Leitung, Notfallvorsorge und -planung, pädagogische Grundlagen und Qualitätsmanagement an der Akademie für Krisenmanagement, Notfallplanung und Zivilschutz (AKNZ) im Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz- und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK).Dr. Stefan Goertz ist Beamter der Bundespolizei und Dozent an der Hochschule des Bundes, Fachbereich Bundespolizei, in Lübeck.Dr. Stephan Maninger ist Politikwissenschaftler mit zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen und Vorträgen an diversen akademischen Einrichtungen zu sicherheitspolitischen und militärgeschichtlichen Themen.Table of ContentsDas Bedrohungspotenzial durch Islamismus und islamistischen Terrorismus.- Islamistisch-terroristische Radikalisierung.- Recht als Grundlage und Schranke staatlichen Handelns bei der Bekämpfung des Terrorismus.- Terrorismusabwehr und -bekämpfung im Zeitalter strategischer Ungewissheit.- Effekte von Terrorismus und Anarchismus als Führungsproblem.- Politisch motivierte Kriminalität mit CBRN-Tatmitteln.- Reichweite und Methodenspektrum im Zeitalter islamistischer Anschläge.

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Book SynopsisDas essential liefert eine fundierte Darstellung und Analyse des sogenannten ‚Zwei-Prozent-Ziels‘ der NATO (2 % vom BIP für Verteidigung) und seiner Auswirkungen auf die Finanzierung der Bundeswehr. Es skizziert Entstehung und methodische Schwächen der Messgröße, die 2002 erstmals verabredet und 2014 bekräftigt wurde. Die Zielgröße ist ohne rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Viele NATO-Partner erfüllen sie nicht, darunter Deutschland, das mit rund 1,25 % weit entfernt liegt. Weil rein inputorientiert und nicht plausibel ist das Kriterium eigentlich unbrauchbar. Dennoch beeinflusste es in der letzten Zeit die innenpolitische Debatte in Deutschland.Table of ContentsDie Beschlüsse von Wales 2014 zum Zwei-Prozent-Ziel.- Die innenpolitische Debatte um die Höhe des Verteidigungshaushalts .- Verbesserungen des Zustands der Bundeswehr durch mehr Geld?

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Book SynopsisDirk Baehr untersucht anhand der in sieben Gerichtsverfahren gesammelten und ausgewerteten empirischen Daten die Radikalisierungsursachen von neun dschihadistischen Straftätern. Bei den Angeklagten handelt es sich um Extremisten, die entweder wegen der Werbung und Unterstützung von terroristischen Vereinigungen oder wegen der Mitgliedschaft in terroristischen Vereinigungen in Deutschland zu hohen Haftstrafen verurteilt wurden. Um die Radikalisierungsprozesse von Dschihadisten exemplarisch darzulegen, werden die Radikalisierungsverläufe von zwei Straftätern in Einzelfallanalysen rekonstruiert und die wichtigsten Radikalisierungsfaktoren aufgezeigt. Table of ContentsGrundlegende Vorbemerkungen zur Radikalisierungsforschung.- Ursachenanalyse von Radikalisierungen.- Hauptursachen für Radikalisierungsprozesse.- Zwei Einzelfallanalysen von Radikalisierungen.

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Book SynopsisBereits seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist der Status der Souveränitätsrechte über die Paracel- und Spratly-Inselgruppen ungeklärt. Doch in den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde der Disput mitunter kriegerisch ausgetragen und die Region sukzessiv militarisiert. Dies lässt sich insbesondere auf die wirtschaftlichen, innenpolitischen und geopolitischen Interessen der Konfliktparteien zurückführen, die dieses essential in einem Überblick analysiert. Wiewohl die Region von China als genuiner Einflussbereich reklamiert wird, versuchen die USA mit ihrem pivot to Asia ihrerseits die freie Seefahrt und die Interessen der ohnmächtigen ASEAN-Staaten zu vertreten. Nebst dem regionalen Konflikt impliziert die Auseinandersetzung infolgedessen eine geopolitische Dimension im Kampf um Suprematie zwischen den beiden Hegemonen. Table of ContentsDie wirtschaftliche Dimension des Konflikts.- Gründungsmythos und Nationalismus: der innenpolitische Druck.- Das Dilemma des internationalen Rechts.- Die (geo-)politische Aufladung des Konflikts.

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Book SynopsisDas essential liefert einen Überblick über die Debatten um eine Europäische Armee. Gemessen an den Voraussetzungen – gemeinsame Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, Bereitschaft zum Souveränitätsverzicht, harmonisierte „Militärkultur“, gemeinsame Rüstung, kompatible rechtliche Bestimmungen – ist diese unrealistisch. Eine Armee der Europäer bzw. Elemente einer solchen, bei denen die Staaten ihre Souveränität behalten, ist als Ziel vorstellbar. Es werden Ansätze dazu diskutiert. Soweit diese die europäische Verteidigungsfähigkeit stärken, ergeben sich Konsequenzen für das transatlantische Verhältnis.Trade Review“... eine empfehlenswerte Basis für den aktuellen Sachstand und weitergehende Überlegungen ...” (Dr. Alexander Poretschkin, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht, Jg. 62, Heft 4, 2020)Table of ContentsEuropäische Armee: Begriffsvielfalt mit tagespolitischer Aktualität.- Systematisierung von Varianten militärischer Zusammenarbeit und Voraussetzungen für ihre Realisierung.- Fazit: Europäische Armee unrealistisch, Armee der Europäer als Chance.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch behandelt die Interaktion, Kooperation und Fusion von neuen Akteuren, Strategien, Taktiken und Mitteln des islamistischen Terrorismus und der transnationalen organisierten Kriminalität. Diese müssen als vitale Bedrohungen sowohl für die demokratische, westliche Welt als auch für die human security in Konfliktregionen analysiert werden. Das Buch wurde nach den islamistischen Anschlägen 2020 in Dresden, bei Paris, in Nizza und in Wien aktualisiert und um die neue Entwicklung des IS, neue jihadistischer Internet-Inhalte und eine Analyse aktueller islamistischer Akteure erweitert.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Der neue Jihad als Theologie, Ideologie und Strategie.- Kooperation, Interaktion und Fusion von Organisierter Kriminalität und Jihadismus.- Neue technologische Mittel des neuen Terrorismus.- Strategie und Taktik des neuen Terrorismus.- Fazit

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