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True to Their Salt - Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces (Hardcover)
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True to Their Salt - Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces (Hardcover)
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In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were
created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to
be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the
withdrawal of Western forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. Raising new
armies is always problematic, especially during an insurgency, but
doing so outside the sovereignty of one's own state raises
questions of legality, concerns about their conduct and the risk of
an over-empowered local military. The recruitment of proxies,
including former insurgents, or the arming of local fighters and
auxiliaries, levies and militias, may also exacerbate an internal
security situation. In seeking answers to this conundrum Rob
Johnson turns to history. His book sets out how recruitment of
local auxiliaries was an essential component of European
colonialism, and how, in the transfer of power and security at the
end of that colonial era, the raising of local forces using
existing Western models became the norm. He then offers a
comprehensive survey of the post-colonial legacy, particularly the
recent utilisation of surrogates and auxiliaries, the work of
embedded training teams, and mentoring. Rob Johnson is Departmental
Lecturer in the History of War, University of Oxford, and author of
The Afghan Way of War: Culture and Pragmatism, A Critical History,
published by Hurst.
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