Military power and politics in black africa, Rupke, Joerg

Автор: Donald Stoker
Название: Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present
ISBN: 1108479596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108479592
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How can you achieve victory in war if you don`t know your objectives or what victory means? Donald Stoker reveals the flaws in US policy and strategy from the Korean War to the present and lays the foundations for a better approach to the wars of tomorrow.

Автор: Downes Alexander B.
Название: Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong
ISBN: 1501761145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501761140
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes demonstrates, when a state confronts an obstinate or dangerous adversary, the lure of toppling its government and establishing a friendly administration is strong. The historical record, however, shows that foreign-imposed regime change is, in the long term, neither cheap, easy, nor consistently successful. The strategic impulse to forcibly oust antagonistic or non-compliant regimes overlooks two key facts. First, the act of overthrowing a foreign government sometimes causes its military to disintegrate, sending thousands of armed men into the countryside where they often wage an insurgency against the intervener. Second, externally-imposed leaders face a domestic audience in addition to an external one, and the two typically want different things. These divergent preferences place imposed leaders in a quandary: taking actions that please one invariably alienates the other. Regime change thus drives a wedge between external patrons and their domestic prot?g?s or between prot?g?s and their people. Catastrophic Success provides sober counsel for leaders and diplomats. Regime change may appear an expeditious solution, but states are usually better off relying on other tools of influence, such as diplomacy. Regime change, Downes urges, should be reserved for exceptional cases. Interveners must recognize that, absent a rare set of promising preconditions, regime change often instigates a new period of uncertainty and conflict that impedes their interests from being realized.

Автор: Keir A. Lieber, Daryl G. Press
Название: The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age
ISBN: 1501749293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501749292
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Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protected by these fearsome weapons can stop competing so intensely with their adversaries: they can end their arms races, scale back their alliances, and stop jockeying for strategic territory. But rarely have theory and practice been so opposed. Why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying?

In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution, Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons. They explain why the Cold War superpowers raced so feverishly against each other; why the creation of mutual assured destruction does not ensure peace; and why the rapid technological changes of the 21st century will weaken deterrence in critical hotspots around the world.

By explaining how the nuclear revolution falls short, Lieber and Press discover answers to the most pressing questions about deterrence in the coming decades: how much capability is required for a reliable nuclear deterrent, how conventional conflicts may become nuclear wars, and how great care is required now to prevent new technology from ushering in an age of nuclear instability.

--General Bob Kehler, USAF (ret)--former commander, U.S. Strategic Command

Автор: Michael J. Prince, Pamela Moss
Название: Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
ISBN: 1800737394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781800737396
Издательство: Berghahn
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Описание: As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict.

The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.

Автор: Canuel Hugues
Название: The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France`s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy 1940-1963
ISBN: 1682476162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682476161
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The author, drawing upon extensive research through French, British, American, and NATO archives maps out for readers the unique path adopted in France to rebuild a blue-water fleet during unprecedented circumstances.

Автор: Lennart Bolliger
Название: Apartheid`s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa
ISBN: 0821425110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821425114
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Описание: Thousands of Black troops served in South Africa`s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger`s new research leads him to reject their common depiction as "collaborators," challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for national liberation, and reveal the complexity of South Africa`s military culture.

Автор: Lennart Bolliger
Название: Apartheid`s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa
ISBN: 0821424556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821424551
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Описание: Thousands of Black troops served in South Africa`s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger`s new research leads him to reject their common depiction as "collaborators," challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for national liberation, and reveal the complexity of South Africa`s military culture.

Автор: Nicholas Papastratigakis
Название: Russian Imperialism and Naval Power: Military Strategy and the Build-up to the Russo-Japanese War
ISBN: 1350165492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350165496
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: From 1904-1905, Russia and Japan were locked in conflict arising from rival imperial ambitions in the Far East. Nicholas Papastratigakis offers an integrated analysis of Russian naval strategy in the decade before this Russo-Japanese War, in which the Russians suffered catastrophic defeat. He seeks to determine the extent to which their defeat can be attributed to flawed Tsarist naval strategy in the region. Rooted in rich primary resources from Russian, French and British archives, the book sheds new light on Russia's conduct in international affairs in the pre-World War I era. He places Russian naval strategy in the broader context of Russian military strategy at the turn of the century, and of imperialism and 'navalism' in general. This book will be of enormous interest to scholars and students of naval, military, imperial and Russian history.

Автор: Paul B. Rich
Название: State Power and Black Politics in South Africa, 1912–51
ISBN: 1349244988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349244980
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This work breaks new ground by examining twentieth-century black South African politics in the context of the development of state power. The book is a detailed study, based on extensive archival sources, that looks at the changing relationships between black political elites and state bureaucrats and civil servants.

Автор: O`Hara Vincent
Название: Six Victories: North Africa Malta and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941-March 1942
ISBN: 1682474607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682474600
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Описание: Six Victories examines one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on traffic in the Mediterranean during the fall and winter of 1941-42.

Автор: Sue Onslow
Название: Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation
ISBN: 041562228X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415622288
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This edited volume highlights the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa.

Автор: Baynham Simon
Название: Military Power and Politics in Black Africa
ISBN: 0367677261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367677268
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1986, Military Power and Politics in Black Africa explores many themes that concerned military power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa at the time of publication.