Author: Talukder Maniruzzaman
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Constantine P Danopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032940670
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First published in 1988, Military Disengagement from Politics explores the reasons and conditions for military withdrawal from politics. It provides a comparative and cross-cultural examination of eight countries-- Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South America, covering a wide region of the world.

Author: Sharon Cathleen Semmens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Constantine Panos Danopoulos
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415004848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Author: David Cortright
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317260465
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Now in its tenth year, the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan continues with no foreseeable end in sight. Ending Obama's War is intended to help and hold President Obama to his policy of beginning military withdrawals in July 2011 - and sooner if possible. Renowned peace scholar David Cortright offers realistic alternatives for ending the war whilst continuing to help the Afghan people, especially women, with development and human rights. Ending Obama's War outlines a responsible military disengagement strategy and links it to agreements on security cooperation, political power sharing, and a regional diplomatic compact. This is a timely, informed study which offers a way forward for one of the world's worst conflict zones.

Author: Constantine P Danopoulos
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Category : Military government
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Russell Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Gregory A. Daddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190691107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures of American strategy, popular history tells of a new American military commander who emerged in South Vietnam and with inspired leadership and a new approach turned around a long stalemated conflict. In fact, so successful was General Creighton Abrams in commanding US forces that, according to the "better war" myth, the United States had actually achieved victory by mid-1970. A new general with a new strategy had delivered, only to see his victory abandoned by weak-kneed politicians in Washington, DC who turned their backs on the US armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies. In a bold new interpretation of America's final years in Vietnam, acclaimed historian Gregory A. Daddis disproves these longstanding myths. Withdrawal is a groundbreaking reassessment that tells a far different story of the Vietnam War. Daddis convincingly argues that the entire US effort in South Vietnam was incapable of reversing the downward trends of a complicated Vietnamese conflict that by 1968 had turned into a political-military stalemate. Despite a new articulation of strategy, Abrams's approach could not materially alter a war no longer vital to US national security or global dominance. Once the Nixon White House made the political decision to withdraw from Southeast Asia, Abrams's military strategy was unable to change either the course or outcome of a decades' long Vietnamese civil war. In a riveting sequel to his celebrated Westmoreland's War, Daddis demonstrates he is one of the nation's leading scholars on the Vietnam War. Withdrawal will be a standard work for years to come.

Author: Shawn Thomas Cochran
Publisher:
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Category : Civil-military relations
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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This dissertation examines and seeks to explain the behavior of the powerful state engaged in small war after military intervention has proven more costly, more difficult and/or of greater duration than expected at the outset. Why do some states persist despite mounting casualties, domestic turmoil at home and little hope of victory in the foreseeable future? And why do others determine the need to cut their losses and withdraw? More broadly, this dissertation addresses the domestic politics of the powerful state under a balace of resolve framework and seeks to better specify the concept of "political will" within this framework.