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Building Militaries in Fragile States
Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so, Karlin predicts, given U.S. sensitivity to casualties, a constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism, increasing transnational security threats, the proliferation of fragile states, and limits on U.S. public support for military interventions. However, its record of success is thin.While most analyses of these programs focus on training and equipment, Building Militaries in Fragile States argues that this approach is misguided. Instead, given the nature of a fragile state, Karlin homes in on the outsized roles played by two key actors: the U.S. military and unhelpful external actors. With a rich comparative case-study approach that spans Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Karlin unearths provocative findings that suggest the traditional way of working with foreign militaries needs to be rethought. Benefiting from the practical eye of an experienced national security official, her results-based exploration suggests new and meaningful findings for building partner militaries in fragile states.
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Afghan sun : defence, diplomacy, development and the Taliban
Afghan Sun is a compelling account of modern Australian soldiers living and fighting during the Summer Fighting Season of 2008 in Uruzgan province. Opening the door on Australia's involvement in Afghanistan, we are able to glimpse for the first time ow the war has been managed and conducted from the perspective of one of the commanders on the ground. (Back of book).
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The NATO Intervention in Libya: Lessons learned from the campaign
This book explores \"lessons learned\" from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO's intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council mandate to use military force, a strong European commitment to protect Libyan civilians, Arab League political endorsement and American engagement in the critical, initial phase of the air campaign. Although the seven-month intervention stretched NATO's ammunition stockpiles and political will almost to their respective breaking points, the definitive overthrow of the Gaddafi regime is universally regarded as a major accomplishment. With contributions from a range of key thinkers and analysts in the field, the book first explains the law and politics of the intervention, starting out with deliberations in NATO and at the UN Security Council, both noticeably influenced by the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It then goes on to examine a wide set of military and auxiliary measures that governments and defence forces undertook in order to increasingly tilt the balance against the Gaddafi regime and to bring about an end to the conflict, as well as to the intervention proper, while striving to keep the number of NATO and civilian casualties to a minimum. This book will be of interest to students of strategic studies, history and war studies, and IR in general.
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The trouble with allies in counterinsurgency : U.S. indirect intervention in the Philippines, Vietnam and El Salvador
\"A critical error lies at the heart of American thinking about counterinsurgency: the assumption that the U.S. will share common goals, priorities, and interests with a local government it is supporting, which will make it relatively easy to convince the partner to adopt America's preferred counterinsurgency prescription. In fact, the historical record suggests that maintaining power is frequently the priority for the incumbent regime, which means that many of the standard reform prescriptions for counterinsurgency - reducing government corruption, ending patronage politics, embracing disaffected minority groups, streamlining the military chain of command, or engaging in economic reform - can appear more threatening to a besieged government and its supporters than the insurgency itself. Therefore, while the United States has provided its local allies with overwhelming amounts of money, materiel, and political support it has frequently had difficulty convincing its partners to abide by its counterinsurgency doctrine or address what it sees as the political and economic \"root causes\" of the insurgency. If, as the 2009 U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide asserts, \"any COIN campaign is only as good as the political strategy which the affected nation adopts,\" this lack of influence would appear to pose a significant problem for U.S. interventions.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Kurdish Quasi-State: Development and Dependency in Post-Gulf War Iraq
Despite ongoing instability and underdevelopment in post-Saddam Iraq, some parts of the country have realized relative security and growth. The Kurdish north, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, has become an internationally recognized autonomous region. In The Kurdish Quasi-State, Natali explains the nature of this transformation and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq’s central government. This much-needed scholarship focuses on foreign aid as helping to create and sustain the Kurdish quasi-state. It argues that the generous nature of external assistance to the Kurdistan region over time has given it new forms of legitimacy and leverage in the country. Since 2003 the Kurdistan region has gained representation in the central government and developed commercial, investment, and political ties with regional states and foreign governments.
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Economist video. Can Europe defend Ukraine without America?
Can Europe defend Ukraine without America? As Donald Trump pauses military aid and intelligence to Kyiv, our defence editor, Shashank Joshi, analyses whether European countries can plug the gaps.
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Economist video. When will Europe no longer need America's protection?
How many years will it take until Europe can defend itself without America's protection? The director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, Rachel Ellehuus, examines the strengths and weaknesses of European military capabilities, in an interview with our defence editor, Shashank Joshi.
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