The Potential for Military Disengagement from Politics
Author : A. Olugboyega Banjo
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN :
Author : A. Olugboyega Banjo
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN :
Author : Constantine Panos Danopoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415004848
Author : Marjorie Cohn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814762921
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional under U.S. law. Through the voices of active duty service members and veterans, it explores the growing conviction among our troops that the wars are wrong. While the Obama Administration's pledge to remove all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 is encouraging - and in no small way likely attributable to resistance by our armed forces - it continues to fight in Afghanistan, and the military may soon have a heightened presence elsewhere in the Middle East and in Africa. As such, Rules of Disengagement provides inspiration and lessons for anyone who opposes an interventionist U.S. military policy.
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN :
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies? He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317260465
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 : Claude Emerson Welch
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN :
Author : Clarence J. Bouchat
Publisher : Army War College Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The political economy problems of Nigeria, the root cause for ethnic, religious, political and economic strife, can be in part addressed indirectly through focused contributions by the U.S. military, especially if regionally aligned units are more thoroughly employed.
Author : Marcus Mietzner
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
This study discusses the process of military reform in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto?s New Order regime in 1998. The extent of Indonesia?s progress in this area has been the subject of heated debate, both in Indonesia and in Western capitals. Human rights organizations and critical academics, on the one hand, have argued that the reforms implemented so far have been largely superficial, and that Indonesia?s armed forces remain a highly problematic institution. Foreign proponents of military assistance to Indonesia, on the other hand, have asserted that the military has undergone radical change, as evidenced by its complete extraction from political institutions. This study evaluates the state of military reform eight years after the end of authoritarian rule, pointing to both significant achievements and serious shortcomings. Although the armed forces in the new democratic polity no longer function as the backbone of a powerful centralist regime and have lost many of their previous privileges, the military has been able to protect its core institutional interests by successfully fending off demands to reform the territorial command structure. As the military?s primary source of political influence and off-budget revenue, the persistence of the territorial system has ensured that the Indonesian armed forces have not been fully subordinated to democratic civilian control. This ambiguous transition outcome so far poses difficult challenges to domestic and foreign policymakers, who have to find ways of effectively engaging with the military to drive the reform process forward.This is the twenty-third publication in Policy Studies, a peer-reviewed East-West Center Washington series that presents scholarly analysis of key contemporary domestic and international political, economic, and strategic issues affecting Asia in a policy relevant manner.
Author : Talukder Maniruzzaman
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Simon Baynham
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :