Failed States And Casualty Phobia
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Failed States And Casualty Phobia
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Author : Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Failed States And Casualty Phobia written by Jeffrey Record and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Battle casualties categories.
The emergence of failed states as the principal source of international political instability and the appearance of mounting casualty phobia among U.S. political and military elites have significant force structure and technology implications. Overseas, intra-state and often irregular warfare is displacing large-scale inter-state conventional combat. At home, there has arisen a new generation of political and military leadership that displays an unprecedented timidity in using force. Yet the Pentagon continues to prepare to refight the Korean and Gulf Wars simultaneously, no less and to invest heavily in force structures whose commitment to combat would invite politically unacceptable casualties. The air war over Serbia should be a warning to U.S. force planners: In contingencies not involving direct threats to manifestly vital U.S. interests the post-Cold War norm, elevation of force protection to equal or greater importance than mission accomplishment mandates primary, even exclusive reliance on air power. It further mandates expanded investment in stand-off precision-strike munitions and other technologies providing greater range and accuracy. The Army's combat arms were more or less irrelevant to the war against Serbia because of that service's comparative strategic immobility, and because a casualty-phobic White House and Pentagon leadership had already decided to withhold U.S. ground combat forces from exposure to combat. Yet the war against a tiny, isolated, third-rate military power consumed almost one half the Air Force's deployable combat assets. The defense budget debate of recent years has predictably focused on the scope and wisdom of the post-Cold War cuts in overall defense spending.
Failed States And Casualty Phobia
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Author : Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Failed States And Casualty Phobia written by Jeffrey Record and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Battle casualties categories.
Failed States And Casualty Phobia
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Author : Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Failed States And Casualty Phobia written by Jeffrey Record and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Battle casualties categories.
Ethical Theory In The Study Of International Politics
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Author : Mark Evans
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2004
Ethical Theory In The Study Of International Politics written by Mark Evans and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
This book is designed to introduce readers to a representative range of work which raises what should be regarded as pressing ethical issues in the context of international politics. Although by no means comprehensive in coverage of the possible questions that could be appropriately asked, the chapters convey a sense of how variegated is the field of ethical inquiry in the global realm. Some of the issues are familiar to students of international relations, some of them less so. What they all show, however, is that the academic discipline of international relations has much to learn and benefit from how such problems may be addressed using techniques and approaches that have, until recently, been rather more exclusively restricted to domestic -- nation-statist -- political theory...(From the Introduction) Contents: Introduction: Topics in International Political Theory; Who Should Pay (And How Much) for Realising Human Rights?; World Citizenship and The Ethics of Individual Responsibility; World Hunger, Moral Theory, and Radical Rawlsianism; Kids 'R' Us? Children as Political Bodies; Dealing with the Past: Forgiveness and the Reconstruction of Memory in Divided Societies; Outsour
Insurrection And Intervention
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Author : Ned Dobos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Insurrection And Intervention written by Ned Dobos and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Philosophy categories.
Domestic sovereignty (the right of a government not to be resisted by its people) and international sovereignty (the moral immunity from outside intervention) have both been eroded in recent years, but the former to a much greater extent than the latter. An oppressed people's right to fight for liberal democratic reforms in their own country is treated as axiomatic, as the international responses to the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya illustrate. But there is a reluctance to accept that foreign intervention is always justified in the same circumstances. Ned Dobos assesses the moral cogency of this double standard and asks whether intervention can be consistently and coherently opposed given our attitudes towards other kinds of political violence. His thought-provoking book will interest a wide range of readers in political philosophy and international relations.
Private Military And Security Companies And States
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Author : Christopher Spearin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-02
Private Military And Security Companies And States written by Christopher Spearin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-02 with Political Science categories.
This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power. Whereas the mercenaries, privateers, and chartered companies of years past held similar characteristics to state military forces, the PMSCs of today are dissimilar for two reasons: a conventional forces norm amongst states and a state proclivity towards the offensive. These factors reveal both the limitations of and the possibilities for contemporary security privatization. This volume is ideal for civilian and military practitioners and students wishing to develop a detailed understanding of what the private military and security industry has to offer and why it is structured the way it is.
Monthly Catalog Of United States Government Publications
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Monthly Catalog Of United States Government Publications written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Government publications categories.
Great Powers And Us Foreign Policy Towards Africa
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Author : Stephen M. Magu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Great Powers And Us Foreign Policy Towards Africa written by Stephen M. Magu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Political Science categories.
This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. In assessing the history of the United States and its interactions with the continent, particularly with the Horn of Africa, the author casts doubt on whether successive US administrations had a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. The volume examines the historical interactions between the US and the continent, evaluates the US involvement in Africa through foreign policy lenses, and compares foreign policy preferences and strategies of other European, EU and BRIC countries towards Africa.
Parameters
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Parameters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Military art and science categories.
Issues In Military Ethics
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Author : Martin L. Cook
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2013-03-04
Issues In Military Ethics written by Martin L. Cook and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-04 with Philosophy categories.
Reflecting on a seventeen-year career teaching at military educational institutions of the Air Force, the Army, and the Navy, Martin L. Cook finds a powerful but underappreciated basis for military ethics in the oath to the Constitution that members of the armed services pledge. In Issues in Military Ethics, Cook considers the role of airpower in counterinsurgency war and the place of robotic weapons systems on the battlefield, but he also looks beyond ethics in the conduct of war to issues arising in military life generally. He addresses a range of other issues with pressing contemporary relevance, including civil-military relations, ethics education, and religion, in particular the ascendency of evangelical Christianity in military culture. This volume serves as an important resource for scholars, members of the armed services, and educators alike.