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Based largely on field visits and interviews with key individuals,
this is the first study to focus on Pakistan's security policies
under the rule of General Zia ul-Haq.
Global Security Beyond the Millennium offers American and Russian perspectives concerning the evolution of the US-Russian post-Cold War security relationship. American and Russian contributors discuss obstacles and opportunities in bilateral cooperation and security challenges for the two countries on the threshold of the twenty-first century.
Color-coded terrorism alerts are issued, then lifted with no
explanation. False alarms can, like crying wolf, desensitize people
to a real need to be on alert. And that psychic numbing is just one
effect discussed in this book by fifteen psychologists teamed up to
take a critical look at the U.S. war on terrorism. These experts
are led by the Chairman of an American Psychological Association
task force charged with pinpointing the effect of our
anti-terrorism efforts on American mental health. Together, they
present the most up-to-date and intriguing picture we have of the
fallout on our own people from our own programs. The text
spotlights stereotyping of foreigners, increased domestic hate
crimes, fear, depression and helplessness, as well as increased
militancy and belligerence, especially among students. Perhaps most
disturbing in the land of the free, we also see increasing
acceptance of restrictions on our personal freedoms, and acceptance
of human rights violations. Color-coded terrorism alerts are
issued, then lifted with no explanation. False alarms can, like
crying wolf, desensitize people to a real need to be on alert. And
that psychic numbing is just one effect discussed in this book by
fifteen psychologists teamed up for a critical look at the U.S. war
on terrorism. These experts are led by the Chairman of the American
Psychological Association task force charged with pinpointing the
effect of our anti-terrorism efforts on America's mental health.
Together, they present the most up-to-date and intriguing picture
we have of the fallout on our own people from our own programs. The
text spotlights fueled stereotyping of foreigners, increased
domestic hate crimes, fear, depression and helplessness, as well as
increasing militancy and belligerence, especially among students.
Perhaps most disturbing in the land of the free, our attention is
drawn to growing acceptance of restrictions on our personal
freedoms, and acceptance of human rights violations. Contributors
to this collection aim to give us a reality check, looking at what
our national reactions to terrorism have been, how those reactions
have affected the psyche of our people and whether this has made us
stronger or weaker, and more or less likely to be the target for
future attacks.
Originally published in 1827, this historical account of Philip's
War, also called the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676, recounts
the causes of the bloody battles which killed 600 colonists and
3,000 Native Americans. The conflict destroyed a number of tribes
in the area and opened southern New England to unimpeded colonial
expansion.
"The Korean War and Me" is a memoir covering Ted Pailet's first 24
years. The story centers on the author's experiences in Korea
during the war and includes his growing up in the South.
As an ROTC lieutenant, Ted's assignments included searching for
missing-in-actions and commanding the United Nations Military
Cemetery in Korea. These assignments provided a variety of
extraordinary experiences and encounters with extremely interesting
individuals.
Embedded in the story are scenes from the author's childhood,
high school days, and college. He also shares his opinions on
matters such as religious beliefs, racial relations, ideology, and
politics.
This book is an original study of the Royal Navy's response to the rise of the German navy under Hitler within the context of the ongoing debate about Anglo-German relations and the origins of the Second World War. Drawing on wide range of sources, the author casts new light on the diplomacy leading to the Anglo-German Naval Agreements of June 1935 and July 1937, and explores the crucial connections between naval intelligence, war planning and Admiralty policy. The author suggests that the Admiralty's response to the Nazi menace was far more rational and more complex than previous studies suggest.
This book considers the forces that shaped India's postwar position
as a major power. It examines the growth and development of India's
defense infrastructure from the eve of the Second World War in 1938
through the transfer of power and partition in 1947 to the creation
of the Baghdad Pact in 1955. The study shows how the British
invested in the expansion of India's defense infrastructure during
the Second World War in order to defend their imperial interests
east of Suez. It also examines the effects of partition and de jure
independence on India's access to this infrastructure. Finally, it
analyzes the impact that India's possession of this infrastructure
had on three developments of major importance to postwar
geopolitics: India's leadership of newly independent former
colonies, the decline of the British empire east of Suez, and the
origins of the Cold War in Asia.
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations
detected a decline in the political significance of the armed
forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend
seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in
2006, the Philippine armed forces expanded their political
privileges under the Arroyo presidency, and the Burmese junta
successfully engineered pseudo-democratic elections in 2010. This
book discusses the political resurgence of the military in
Southeast Asia throughout the 2000s. Written by distinguished
experts on military affairs, the individual chapters explore
developments in Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, East
Timor, Indonesia and Singapore. They not only assess, but also
offer explanations for the level of military involvement in
politics in each country. Consequently, the book also makes a
significant contribution to the comparative debate about militaries
in politics. Whilst conditions obviously differ from country to
country, most authors in this book conclude that the shape of
civil-military relations is not predetermined by historic, economic
or cultural factors, but is often the result of intra-civilian
conflicts and divisive or ineffective political leadership.
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the
history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of
General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and
the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Though
less well known than his great rival, Hans von Seeckt, Reinhardt's
role in forming the young Reichswehr and his writings on warfare
made him one of the most important and influential military figures
in interwar Germany. Contrary to the conventional view that
civil-military relations were fraught from the outset, the author
argues, Reinhardt's contribution to the military politics of the
Weimar Republic shows that opportunities for reform and
co-operation with civilian leaders existed. However, although he is
primarily seen as a liberal General, this study demonstrates that
he was motivated by professional military considerations and by the
specter of a future war. His ideas on modern warfare were amongst
the most radical of the time.
It was Louis Allen's work on Japan which dominated his prodigious
output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received
greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings
focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan
and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and
Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of
Japan, security and reconciliation. Importantly, in addition to the
24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown
sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen's
own undated autobiographical paper entitled 'Innocents Abroad:
Investigating War Crimes in South-East Asia', providing a unique,
first-hand account of his war-time life and activities. This volume
also includes a complete bibliography of Louis Allen's writings
covering all disciplines.
How has the media, beginning with the Persian Gulf War, altered
political analysis and how has this alteration in turn affected
socially-critical art? Jeanne Colleran examines more than forty
plays, most of which were written in direct response to the
emergent New World Order and the subsequent 1991 war in Iraq as
well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and
Afghanistan. These works are drawn primarily from the British and
American stage - the principal partners in these conflicts. The
writers include prominent figures (Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill,
Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, David Hare, Trevor Griffiths, Naomi
Wallace, and Neil LaBute), work by theatre groups and artistic
directors (San Francisco Mime Troupe, Nicolas Kent and the Tricycle
Theatre, and Alan Buchman and Culture Project), and plays by
emerging playwrights and by writers who work primarily as
journalists or in other media (Anne Nelson, Lawrence Wright, George
Packer, Robin Soans, and others).
The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars
These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of
their number-a padre-through the Great Boer War. The inexorable
slowness of the British column, the heat and dust of the South
African terrain, sickness within the troops, the elusive Boer enemy
often just beyond reach except during lightning fast close
encounters, the suffering and displacement of the civilian
population and the retaliatory burning of farms all appear within
the pages of this first hand experience of the British Army's most
renowned regiments on campaign at the turn of the twentieth
century.
Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how
strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes.
Ranging across the modern period from the eighteenth century to the
present day, the book presents a series of case-studies which
operate in and between a number of settings and scales, from the
infrastructures of the battlefield to the logistics of the domestic
realm. The book explores the patterns, forms and systems that
articulate militarised spaces, excavates how these become
re-circulated and reconfigured within other domains and discusses
the often ephemeral legacies and residues of these architectures.
The complexities of unpicking the spaces of the 'fog of war' are
addressed by an inter-disciplinary approach which deploys graphic
and textual analyses and techniques to provide new and unique
perspectives on a hitherto underexplored aspect of architectural
and spatial discourse: the tactics and programmes through which the
built environment has historically been made to respond to the
imperatives and threats of conflict and, in the context of the 'war
on terror', continues to be so in ever more pervasive ways.
First published in 1934, this book explores prominent economic
questions on the subject of rearmament and disarmament. Both
rearmament and disarmament have a number of economic advantages and
disadvantages and in each chapter Paul Einzig considers these in
order to decide on which side the advantages outweigh the
disadvantages. Part I of the book examines the economics of
armament in the light of real experience of recent history whilst
Part II looks to the probable economic effort of future rearmament.
Many scholars call the Persian Gulf conflict the first "prime-time
war." Certainly, the technologies, strategies, and skills of the
military in managing the public agenda were equal to those of the
television networks and major print organizations. The Media and
the Persian Gulf War focuses on the processes and effects of the
media, both leading up to and during the "mother of all battles" in
1990 and 1991. Broad in scope and varied in methodologies, the
chapters span the media of television, radio, print, and film.
Chapters discuss such specific topics as the relationship between
the press and the censoring military, CNN's and C-SPAN's coverage,
how talk radio and television covered the war, the media's
depiction of women in the military, the Gulf War as a referent in
advertising, and how popular culture legitimized the war. This work
will be an important resource for scholars in political and mass
communication, popular culture, and political science.
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