Inside The Blue Berets
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Inside The Blue Berets
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Author : Steven J. Zaloga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-04-01
Inside The Blue Berets written by Steven J. Zaloga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-01 with History categories.
The Red Army was the pioneer of modern special forces. In the 1930s, it fielded the world's largest paratrooper force, conducting futuristic experiments in mass air landing. From these roots sprang the modern Soviet shock troops: paratroopers of the elite VDV, army Spetsnaz, and KGB secret assassination teams. Yet little is known about Russia's main elite combat forces. With the declassification of Soviet documents, many of their missions have been publicly disclosed. Zaloga, using insider memoirs and original documents, fills this gap in the history of elite forces. Also discusses Russia's missile and nuclear weapons programs.
Inside The Blue Berets
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Author : Steve Zaloga
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 1995
Inside The Blue Berets written by Steve Zaloga and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Inside the Blue Berets looks at the origins of the Russian shock troops. It provides an exciting description of the harrowing Russian airborne assaults of World War II and the combat uses of these troops in the Cold War years as they took on an important new role as "imperial storm troopers" - the infantry that enforced Soviet power, first in Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia. By then paratroopers had become a true elite, with the best and brightest of the Red Army competing for the prized blue beret. In the 1980s, the VDV became trapped in the quagmire of Afghanistan. Bloodied and weary after ten years of brutal fighting, the paratroopers returned home and were immediately ordered to don their flak jackets and control the civil turmoil resulting from perestroika. Inside the Blue Berets offers the first lucid description of the murky situation that surrounded the breakup of the USSR.
Yanks In Blue Berets
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Author : L. Scott Lingamfelter
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Yanks In Blue Berets written by L. Scott Lingamfelter and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually challenged in its peacekeeping mission, often having to alter its configuration. Matters came to a head in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon for a second time, calling into question the efficacy of UN peacekeeping operations and US support for them. In Yanks in Blue Berets: American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East, retired US Army colonel and former UN military observer L. Scott Lingamfelter chronicles the role of the US military in UN Middle East peacekeeping operations. Framed by his personal experiences, the book examines the difficulties faced by UN forces wedged between warring sides with limited trust in their authority as well as the challenging dichotomy of a soldier trained for combat yet immersed in unarmed peacekeeping. Yanks in Blue Berets is a "boots on the ground" perspective of the building Arab-Israeli tensions and geopolitics preceding the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Irishbatt
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Author : Henry McDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Irishbatt written by Henry McDonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
The Girl In The Blue Beret
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Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-28
The Girl In The Blue Beret written by Bobbie Ann Mason and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.
The Women In Blue Helmets
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Author : Lesley J. Pruitt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-06-28
The Women In Blue Helmets written by Lesley J. Pruitt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Social Science categories.
The Women in Blue Helmets tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt investigates how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important historical record of this unique initiative. Examining precedents in policing in the troop-contributing country and recent developments in policing in the host country, the book offers contextually rich examination of all-female units, explores the potential benefits of and challenges to women’s participation in peacekeeping, and illuminates broader questions about the relationship between gender, peace, and security.
Maritime Peacekeeping
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Author : Michael Charles Pugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Maritime Peacekeeping written by Michael Charles Pugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with International police categories.
Military Uniforms In Europe 1900 2000 Volume Two
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Author : R Spencer Kidd
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Military Uniforms In Europe 1900 2000 Volume Two written by R Spencer Kidd and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
This book (Volume Two) gives an historical overview of 51 countries whose armed forces served in Europe 1900-2000, together with uniform descriptions. Includes 204 full colour paintings of the regular armies, marines, airforce and para-military troops engaged in land exercises, operations and warfare in Europe, including non-European troops serving in Europe. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description of the uniforms illustrated. The author and illustrator Ron Kidd, has been interested in both police and military history, uniforms and insignia since he was a school boy in the 1950's. He has visited over 300 police and military museums world-wide, and has written and illustrated a number of magazine articles on both police and military history and uniforms. He is a member of both the Military Heraldry Society and the Military Historical Society.
Insecure Spaces
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Author : Doctor Marsha Henry
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Insecure Spaces written by Doctor Marsha Henry and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Political Science categories.
In recent times, the Blue Berets have become markers of peace and security around the globe. Yet, the iconoclastic symbol of both the Blue Beret and the Blue Helmet continue to engage the international political imagination in ways that downplay the inconsistent effects of peacekeeping missions on the security of local people. In this book, Paul Higate and Marsha Henry develop critical perspectives on UN and NATO peacekeeping, arguing that these forms of international intervention are framed by the exercise of power. Their analysis of peacekeeping, based on fieldwork conducted in Haiti, Liberia and Kosovo, suggests that peacekeeping reconfigures former conflict zones in ways that shape perceptions of security. This reconfiguration of space is enacted by peacekeeping personnel who 'perform' security through their daily professional and personal practices, sometimes with unanticipated effects. Insecure Spaces' interdisciplinary analysis sheds great light on the contradictory mix of security and insecurity that peace operations create.
Blue Helmets And Black Markets
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Author : Peter Andreas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2008
Blue Helmets And Black Markets written by Peter Andreas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on all sides. Although the vast majority of Sarajevans struggled for daily survival and lived in a state of terror, the siege was highly rewarding for some key local and international players. This situation also left a powerful legacy for postwar reconstruction: new elites emerged via war profiteering and an illicit economy flourished partly based on the smuggling networks built up during wartime." "Andreas shows how and why the internationalization of the siege changed the repertoires of siege-craft and siege defenses and altered the strategic calculations of both the besiegers and the besieged. The Sarajevo experience dramatically illustrates that just as changes in weapons technologies transformed siege warfare through the ages, so too has the arrival of CNN, NGOs, satellite phones, UN peacekeepers, and aid convoys. Drawing on interviews, reportage, diaries, memoirs, and other sources, Andreas documents the business of survival in wartime Sarajevo and the limits, contradictions, and unintended consequences of international intervention."--BOOK JACKET.