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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was one of the most significant political
leaders of the twentieth century. He rose from obscure origins to
become the founder of the new Republic of Turkey out of the ashes
of the Ottoman Empire and go on to radically transform Turkish
society. How should one understand Atatürk and his legacy? In this
book, George Gawrych studies Atatürk’s career in detail, showing
how Atatürk married the traits of the classic military
man-of-action with those of the intellectual, theorist and
pragmatist as a statesman. Gawrych places Atatürk in the context
of his times to reveal how he harnessed wider forces to set Turkey
on a path of secular nationalism and comprehensive modernization.
His legacy can be seen everywhere in Turkey today, from the role
and rights of women in society to the struggle for developing a
democracy in the Republic. Gawrych addresses the costs of
Atatürk’s policies, including the suppression of minorities and
the imposition of a cult of personality and authoritarian rule in
the name of ‘Turkification’. The book presents a nuanced
analysis of a complex figure who consciously created a living
legacy that still casts a shadow over Turkey’s political and
intellectual discourse.
By 1990, the Cold War was over and many Americans talked of the
"peace dividend" that would befall the country once military
spending and commitments could be reduced in what some referred to
as the New World Order. Instead, world affairs proved as dangerous
and intractable as ever, even more so perhaps than during the
period 1945-1990 when the two competing superpowers managed to hold
various tribal, ethnic, religious, and political conflicts around
the world somewhat in check. Driving home how dangerous the world
remained in the 1990s, the US military found itself fighting one
major war, Operation Desert Storm, and participating in a variety
of other military activities, including three major interventions:
Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans. The Combat Studies Institute has
published scholarly accounts of the Gulf War (Lucky War), the
Somalian venture ("My Clan Against the World"), and the involvement
in Haiti (Invasion, Intervention, "Intervasion"). The publication
of Armed Peacekeepers in Bosnia adds another case study to the
Institute's coverage of these post-Cold War US military operations.
With the aid of a generous grant from the US Institute of Peace,
Robert Baumann, George Gawrych, and Walter Kretchik were able to
access and examine relevant documents, interview numerous
participants, and visit US and NATO forces in Bosnia. As a result
of their labors, they have provided the reader an analytical
narrative that covers the background to the crisis in Bosnia, the
largely ineffectual efforts of the UN Protection Force to stop the
civil war there between 1992 and 1995, the Dayton Peace Accords of
1995 that produced a framework for ending the civil war and
consolidating the peace, the frenetic planning that led to the
deployment of US forces as part of the NATO-led multinational force
(Operation Joint Endeavor), and the transition of that
Implementation Force to the Stabilization Force a year later. The
authors shed light on several of the critical military lessons that
have emerged from the US experience in Bosnia-an involvement that
continues as of this writing. In general, these cover the
cooperation and contention present in virtually any coalition
undertaking; the complexity of the local situation and the way in
which strictly military tasks have political, social, economic, and
cultural ramifications that the military cannot ignore or avoid;
the inevitable adjustments peacekeepers have to make to dynamic and
precarious situations; and the often unaccommodating role history
plays when confronted with concerns about force protection,
"mission creep," "end states," and early exits. In Bosnia, as in
countless other operations, a US military force trained and
equipped to fight a highly technological, conventional war found
itself making adjustments that resulted in performing tasks that
many officers considered unconventional and unorthodox. The ability
to make these adjustments and to perform these tasks has thus far
leant to the success of the US/NATO involvement in Bosnia. Now the
United States is engaged in the Global War on Terror and, in the
process, has already embarked on stability operations in
Afghanistan and Iraq. The case of Bosnia is, of course, unique but
the general lessons it provides are relevant to US officers
fighting in the current war and should not be overlooked.
The authors were able to access and examine relevant documents,
interview numerous participants, and visit U.S. and NATO forces in
Bosnia in order to provide readers with an analytical narrative
that covers the background to the crisis in Bosnia, the largely
ineffectual efforts of the United Nations Protection Force
(UNPROFOR) to stop the civil war there between 1992 and 1995, the
Dayton Peace Accords of 1995 that produced a framework for ending
the civil war and consolidating the peace, the frenetic planning
that led to the deployment of U.S. forces as part of the NATO-led
multinational force (Operation Joint Endeavor), and the transition
of that Implementation Force (IFOR) to the Stabilization Force
(SFOR) a year later. The authors shed light on several of the
critical military lessons that have emerged from the U.S.
experience in Bosnia.
Published by the Combat Studies Institute Press."With the aid of a
generous grant from the US Institute of Peace, Robert Baumann,
George Gawrych, and Walter Kretchik were able to access and examine
relevant documents, interview numerous participants, and visit US
and NATO forces in Bosnia. As a result of their labors, they have
provided the reader an analytical narrative that covers the
background to the crisis in Bosnia, the largely ineffectual efforts
of the UN Protection Force to stop the civil war there between 1992
and 1995, the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995 that produced a
framework for ending the civil war and consolidating the peace, the
frenetic planning that led to the deployment of US forces as part
of the NATO-led multinational force (Operation Joint Endeavor), and
the transition of that Implementation Force to the Stabilization
Force a year later."
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Equality - More or Less (Paperback)
Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton; Contributions by Brandon Jason Archuleta, Richard H. Davis, Morten G. Ender, …
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R1,873
Discovery Miles 18 730
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work
of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls
within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social
science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the
Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied
are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed
exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with
the topic. Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards
of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an
ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in
acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the
other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such
expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely
thwarted. Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds
these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying
deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which
promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in
those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce
discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who
condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and
unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the
present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate
whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another,
convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being
made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are
considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.
Mustafa Kemal - latterly and better known as Ataturk - is without
doubt the towering figure of modern Turkish history. But what was
his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the
Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President? The Young
Ataturk tracks the lesser covered period of Kemal's life - from the
War of Independence to the founding of the Republic - and shows
that it is only by understanding Kemal's military career that one
can fully comprehend how he evolved as one of the twentieth
century's most extraordinary statesmen. Delving into Kemal's
military writings, orders, and political decisions, speeches,
proclamations and private correspondences, this book provides a
rounded and nuanced portrait of the making of a major statesman.
In 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces defeated the combined armies of
Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in a mere six days. This remarkable
military accomplishment would, however, have the ultimate effect of
creating an albatross around the neck of the Israeli Army, as
Israelis would now expect the next conventional war with the Arabs
to achieve similar results: a quick, decisive victory with
relatively few casualties. Although Egyptian forces were militarily
inferior to those of Israel, President Anwar Sadat developed a
successful limited war strategy designed to exploit this
unrealistic expectation. Rather than aiming to achieve a military
victory or to seize strategic terrain, Sadat merely sought to break
a diplomatic stalemate with a major military operation designed to
soften Israeli intransigence toward negotiations and to force a
change in U.S. foreign policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. In
support of these political aims, the Egyptian Armed Forces set out
to discredit the Israeli Army's prowess by inflicting heavy
casualties in a limited war. Sadat's success in regaining the
entire Sinai without another armed struggle holds an important
lesson for the United States. After its dramatic victory in Desert
Storm, American armed forces feel compelled to win the next
conventional war quickly, decisively, and with relatively few
casualties, much like the challenge that faced Israel after the
1967 war.
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