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When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country
that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to
understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts
and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's
long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement
with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and
their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and
interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and
cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the
last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war
was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the
Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing
resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture.
Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq,
this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has
become the norm.
The Persian Gulf War was the first war that the United States was
officially involved in as a combatant after the Vietnam War. It was
a war in which many new technological, strategic, political, and
economic elements came together for the first time, making the war
a particularly unique experience for American soldiers and those at
home. The colorful Persian Gulf War, Revised Edition is a complete
reference for students, teachers, war historians, war history
enthusiasts, and anyone interested in modern U.S. history. Engaging
sidebars, suggestions for further research, and an informative
chapter about the new military tactics and weapons involved rounds
out this new edition.
The September 11, 2001, terror attacks orchestrated by al-Qaeda
prompted the United States to declare a "War on Terror." When the
Taliban government of Afghanistan refused to extradite al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden, an American-led coalition went to war with
Afghanistan, overthrowing the Taliban government. However, the
coalition did not capture bin Laden and all of his followers, so
the battle against the terrorists continues, while a war-torn and
ravaged Afghanistan struggles to rebuild. Afghanistan War features
an up-to-date account of the battles, weapons, tactics, and people
involved in this ongoing conflict.
For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant
general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three
qualities have guaranteed this enduring status - reliability, ease
of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced
the weapon as their standard GPMG, including the British (as the
L7) and the Americans (M240), and in total more than 80 nations
have adopted the FN MAG. The machine gun has also been modified
extensively for vehicular, naval, and aircraft platforms,
demonstrating versatility in the air, on sea, and on land.
In this
book, Chris McNab charts the technical evolution of this
extraordinary weapon, created by Belgian company Fabrique Nationale
d'Herstal. From the jungles of South East Asia, to the deserts of
the Middle East, and the icy battlefields of the Falklands, this
study explores the origins, development, combat use, and legacy of
the FN MAG machine gun, a dominant weapon in its field for more
than a half-century.
What drives neighbouring states to intervene in the Afghan
conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place
Afghanistan at the centre - the so-called 'heart' - of a large pan-
Asian region whose fate is predicated on Afghan stability. Instead
Harpviken and Tadjbakhsh situ--ate Afghanistan on the margins of
three regional security complexes - those of South Asia, Central
Asia, and the Persian Gulf - each characterised by deep security
rivalries, which, in turn, informs their engagement in Afghanistan.
Within Central Asia, security cooperation is hampered by
competition for regional supremacy and great power support, a
dynamic reflected in these states' half-hearted role in
Afghanistan. In the Persian Gulf, Iran and Saudi Arabia fight for
economic and political influence, mirrored in their Afghan
engagements; while long-standing Indo-Pakistani ri--valries are
perennially played out in Afghanistan. Based on a careful reading
of the recent political and economic history of the region, and of
Great Power rivalry beyond it, the authors explain why efforts to
build a comprehensive Afghanistan-centric regional security order
have failed, and what might be done to re-set inter-state
relations.
United States Navy and the Korean War.
Highlights fleet operations of the United States Navy in the Korean
War from September 1950 to June 1951.
Twentieth century witnessed the rise and fall of many great powers.
With the start of that century, nations fought and won battles
individually to stretch their empires and economics. Within the
same century, when the sizes of a few empires rose to mythical
proportion, others vanished from the map. It was during the same
twentieth century, that the alliance building becomes a religion.
Both World wars and the entire Cold war period were dominated by
the principle of 'building and maintaining alliances'. Two
countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, understood the
art of alliance building more than any other nation. From the last
decade of the twentieth century till Iraq war, the world witnessed
a series of events, one after another. Cold War ended, Russia
disintegrated, US-led alliance won Gulf war, NATO's existence,
expansion and future (if any) were clouded with questions marks'
Ireland issue erupted; Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia
crises deepened; Euro currency started and September 11 and
subsequent Afghanistan and Iraq Wars occurred. It was during these
eventful years, the US and UK stood together to shape the course of
history. Their mutual alliance essential for each other but
indispensable and failed to achieve their objectives. The book
"Essential Alliance" chronicles the success and failures.
In its struggle against international terrorism following 9/11, the
United States developed rendition - the international transfer of
an individual without customary due processes - as an instrument of
policy. Rendition became associated with the use of coercive
interrogation techniques - techniques often crossing the threshold
of torture, in violation of international standards to which
successive American administrations committed themselves. To a
degree yet to be fully established, Britain was implicated in that
policy. Whatever its alleged benefits, rendition's cost is clear -
not simply in terms of the human impact of the abuses, but also in
terms of the huge damage done to the moral authority of the West.
By creating a powerful image of injustice, rendition gives Islamist
radicals a recruiting and propaganda tool. Moreover, the policy is
a severe setback to efforts to enhance shared international
standards in humanitarian and human rights laws. The All-Party
Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition was founded in
December 2005, following the emergence of allegations that the
United States had been operating a programme of 'ghost flights' and
'black sites'. In the five years since then the Group has
contributed to public knowledge and awareness of the debate
surrounding rendition and Britain's involvement in it.
This volume reassesses the origins, nature, and aftermath of the war which was fought in the Korean peninsula between 1950 and 1953. Attention is focused particularly on the extraordinary first year of the war, which witnessed profound variations in the fortune of both sides. This included the initial North Korean attack, the counter-offensive launched by the United States Command, China's dramatic entry into the war, the retreat of UN forces, the controversy over the conduct and dismissal of General MacArthur, and the decision to commence armistice negotiations.
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Al-Qaida After Ten Years of War
- A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospects: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospect
(Paperback, None, First ed.)
Norman Cigar, Stephanie E. Kramer, Defense Dept, Navy Dept (U S ), Marine Corps University Press (U S )
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One key factor that emerged from the various presentations was the
sheer variety of issues, leaderships, local security environments,
and prospects for the local gorups that are affiliated with
Al-Qaida in some way. Other key judgments are also revealed
including that Al-Qaida continues to harbor implacable hostility
toward the international system, the United States, Israel, and
many local governments.
Each presentation by the various contributors are represented as
separate essays within this text.
Regional and territorial maps are interspersed throughout the book
to showcase key areas to the group. Some may find interest in the
metrics set by Al-Qaida as well as the Goods and Services Exchanged
Between Al-Qaida and its partners that are showcased through charts
and tables.
By Charles H. Briscoe, et al. Tells the story of Iraqi Freedom, the
second Army Special Operations (ASO) campaign in America's Global
War on Terrorism. Shows how the ASO supported a US-led conventional
air and ground offensive to collapse the regime of Saddam Hussein
and capture Baghdad.
As Foreign Policy Adviser to Margaret Thatcher and then John Major
from 1984 to 1992, Sir Percy Cradock was at the centre of
government for most of the last decade. He was particularly active
and influential on China, where he was Charge d'Affaires during the
Cultural Revolution and Ambassador from 1978 to 1984. He
masterminded the joint Declaration on Hong Kong in 1984 and played
a leading role in later negotiations over the colony. In this book
he reviews his experiences of China over thirty years, since his
first posting there in 1962. It is a chronicle, ranging from the
famines after the Great Leap Forward, through the madness of the
Cultural Revolution, to the reformist years of Deng Xiaoping, the
tragedy of Tiananmen, and finally to present-day China, now with
the fastest growing economy in the world. In narrower focus, it is
also an authoritative account of Sino-British dealings during that
turbulent time, in particular the critical negotiations over Hong
Kong. These memoirs offer the inside story, illuminating past
crises and present controversies, and making a contribution to the
understanding of a coming world power.
This work presents 60 eye-opening, first person narratives that
takes readers into the dust and smoke of the battlefield that was
Iraq. The reporters interviewed covered history as it was being
made, from the frontline. From the network anchor calling his wife
to tell her he was safe, to a reporter riding in the belly of a
Bradley to camping in Saddam's palace, these reports provide an
insight into what really went on during the war.
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