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Peacekeeping in the Abyss - British and American Peacekeeping Doctrine and Practice after the Cold War (Hardcover, New)
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Peacekeeping in the Abyss - British and American Peacekeeping Doctrine and Practice after the Cold War (Hardcover, New)
Series: Praeger Security International
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Military organizations are cultures, and such cultures have
ingrained preferences and predilections for how and when to employ
force. This is the first study to use a comparative framework to
understand what happened with the U.S. military endeavor in Somalia
and the British effort in Bosnia up to 1995. Both regions were
potential quagmires, and no doctrine for armed humanitarian
operations during ongoing conflicts existed at the outset of these
efforts. After detailing the impact of military culture on
operations, Cassidy draws conclusions about which military cultural
traits and force structures are more suitable and adaptable for
peace operations and asymmetric conflicts. He also offers some
military cultural implications for the U.S. Army's ongoing
transformation. The first part of the study offers an in-depth
assessment of the military cultural preferences and characteristics
of the British and American militaries. It shows that Britain's
geography, its regimental system, and a long history of imperial
policing have helped embed a small-war predilection in British
military culture. This distinguishes it from American military
culture, which has exhibited a preference for the big-war paradigm
since the second half of the 19th century. The second part of the
book examines how cultural preferences influenced the conduct of
operations and the development of the first post-Cold War doctrine
for peace operations.
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