Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428911774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Refining American Strategy in Africa
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428911774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Refining American Strategy in Africa
Author: Steven MetzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584870142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
American Strategy: Issues and Alternatives For the Quadrennial Defense Review
Author: Steven MetzPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428911588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
America's Covert War In East Africa
Author: Clara UsiskinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787382443
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. Her book sets out the historical background to today's covert war, including the early Somali jihads and British repression in colonial Kenya, through to the 1998 US Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and President Clinton's early rendition programme. America's Covert War in East Africa then looks at the US Military's new Africa Command, with its emphasis on counterterrorism, alongside increasing use of targeted killings by security forces in the region, and continued renditions and secret detention. Finally, Usiskin investigates the shorter and longer term consequences of such intensive militarisation, and the proliferation of surveillance and other technologies of control in East Africa and its surrounding waters, focussing in particular on their impact on vulnerable ethnic and religious groups in a highly volatile region.
Corporate Warriors
Author: Peter Warren SingerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801474361
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized Military Industry" encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored. In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering. In an updated edition of P. W. Singer's classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications, the author describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions--for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.
Parameters
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Professional Journal of the United States Army
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Military Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Review of Current Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Civilian Skills for African Military Officers to Resolve the Infrastructure, Economic Development, and Stability Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Diane E. ChidoPublisher: Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN: 1584874805
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Problems of stability in sub-Saharan Africa -- The importance of infrastructure to African development -- Support for infrastructure development as key to stability -- Western aid unsustainable without local skills -- African militaries : supporters or destabilizers? -- Botswana : "what Africa might have become" -- Somaliland : opting out of civil war by building capacity -- Nigeria : what NOT to do -- Education and training models for African military academies -- The military academy model and its applicability to Africa -- Recommendations for implementation