Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1428910379
Author : Anthony R. Jones
Publisher : William s Hein & Company
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781575888439
Author : Geoffrey S. Corn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190456639
In U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, a distinguished group of military experts comprehensively analyze how the law is applied during military operations on and off the battlefield. The authors focus on how the law is actually implemented in a wide swath of military activities.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Amicus
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Helicopters, discusses how helicopters fly and the various ways that helicopters are used in todays world. This title features a table of contents, glossary, index, vivid color photographs and diagrams, photo labels, sidebars, and recommended web sites for further exploration.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1928 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1440853533
With more than 1,100 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Middle East, this definitive scholarly reference provides readers with a substantial foundation for understanding contemporary history in the most volatile region in the world. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia covers all the key wars, insurgencies, and battles that have occurred in the Middle East roughly between 3100 BCE and the early decades of the twenty-first century. It also discusses the evolution of military technology and the development and transformation of military tactics and strategy from the ancient world to the present. In addition to the hundreds of entries on major conflicts, military engagements, and diplomatic developments, the book also features entries on key military, political, and religious leaders. Essays on the major empires and nations of the region are included, as are overview essays on the major periods under consideration. The book additionally covers such non-military subjects as diplomacy, national and international politics, religion and sectarian conflict, cultural phenomena, genocide, international peacekeeping missions, social movements, and the rise to prominence of international terrorism. The reference entries are augmented by a carefully curated documents volume that offers primary sources on such diverse topics as the Greco-Persian Wars, the Crusades, and the Arab-Israeli Wars.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2268 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1851099484
This in-depth study of U.S. involvement in the modern Middle East carefully weighs the interplay of domestic, cultural, religious, diplomatic, international, and military events in one of the world's most troubled regions. The monumental, five-volume The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts is a must-have resource for anyone seeking to comprehend U.S. actions in this volatile region. Under the expert editorship of Spencer C. Tucker, the encyclopedia traces 20th- and 21st-century U.S. involvement in the Middle East and south-central Asia, concentrating on the last three decades. Beginning with the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, it covers the 1979–1989 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, allied punitive actions against Iraq during the 1990s, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, and the Global War on Terror. Many smaller military actions against Iran, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and other regimes that have been involved in international terrorism are also included. Diplomacy, religion as it pertains to Middle East conflict, and social/cultural developments are other key subjects of analysis, as is the interplay of politics with military policy in the United States and other nations involved in the region.
Author : Catherine Toal
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823269361
Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its evolution through exchanges between French and American literature over the contradictions of Enlightenment (slavery, genocide, libertine aristocratic privilege). Catherine Toal traces Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on the Sadean legacy, Melville’s fictional dramatization of Tocqueville, and Henry James’s response to the aesthetic of his French contemporaries, including Flaubert. The result is not simply a work that provides close readings of key literary texts of the nineteenth century—Benito Cereno, The Turn of the Screw, Les Chants de Maldoror—but one that shows how in this era cruelty develops a specific narrative structure, one that is confirmed by the manner of its negation in twentieth-century philosophy. The final chapters address this shift: the postwar French reception of Sade and the relationship between American cultural theory and the rhetoric of the so-called war on terror.
Author : Karen J. Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2005-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521853248
Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.
Author : Laura K. Donohue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139469576
In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive broader authorities without thorough debate. The judiciary's role, too, is restricted: constitutional structure and cultural norms narrow the courts' ability to check the executive at all but the margins. The dominant 'Security or Freedom' framework for evaluating counterterrorist law thus fails to capture an important characteristic: increased executive power that shifts the balance between branches of government. This book re-calculates the cost of counterterrorist law to the United Kingdom and the United States, arguing that the damage caused is significantly greater than first appears. Donohue warns that the proliferation of biological and nuclear materials, together with willingness on the part of extremists to sacrifice themselves, may drive each country to take increasingly drastic measures with a resultant shift in the basic structure of both states.
Author : David M. Crowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317986822
War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible such crimes? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the major wars fought in the 20th century and in the changing nature of warfare itself. This study looks at war crimes committed during the Second World War in the USSR, Yugoslavia, Germany, and efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. This led to successful postwar efforts to define and outlaw such crimes and, more recently, the creation of two international courts to bring war criminals to justice. This did not prevent the commitment of war crimes and acts of genocide throughout the world, particularly in Asia and Africa. And while efforts to bring war criminals to justice has been enhanced by the work of these courts, the problems associated with civil wars, command responsibility, and other issues have created new challenges for the international legal community in terms of the successful adjudication of such crimes. This book was based on a special issue of Nationalities Papers.
