Robert M. Cassidy

Peacekeeping in the Abyss (eBook, PDF)

British and American Peacekeeping Doctrine and Practice after the Cold War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Military organizations are cultures, and such cultures have ingrained preferences and predilections for how and when to employ force. This is the first study to use a comparative framework to understand what happened with the U.S. military endeavor in Somalia and the British effort in Bosnia up to 1995. Both regions were potential quagmires, and no doctrine for armed humanitarian operations during ongoing conflicts existed at the outset of these efforts. After detailing the impact of military culture on operations, Cassidy draws conclusions about which military cultural traits and force structures are more suitable and adaptable for peace operations and asymmetric conflicts. He also offers some military cultural implications for the U.S. Army's ongoing transformation. The first part of the study offers an in-depth assessment of the military cultural preferences and characteristics of the British and American militaries. It shows that Britain's geography, its regimental system, and a long history of imperial policing have helped embed a small-war predilection in British military culture. This distinguishes it from American military culture, which has exhibited a preference for the big-war paradigm since the second half of the 19th century. The second part of the book examines how cultural preferences influenced the conduct of operations and the development of the first post-Cold War doctrine for peace operations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313072680
• Artikelnr.: 37834343

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Cassidy has served in leadership and staff positions in the 4th Infantry Division, the 8th Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the Third Army, and the Seventh Army. He is a graduate of the French Joint Defense College and he has a PhD in International Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of Peacekeeping in the Abyss: British and American Peacekeeping Doctrine and Practice After the Cold War (Praeger, 2004) and he has published articles in Parameters, Military Review, Small Wars and Insugencies and The Fletcher Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Military-Strategic Culture and Doctrine British Military
Strategic Culture: The Cardwellian Conundrum American Military Strategic
Culture: The Uptonian Paradox Existing Peacekeeping Doctrine at the End of
the Cold War The American Military in Somalia: Into the Abyss The British
Army in Bosnia: Adapting on the Hoof Strategic Change and Doctrinal
Outcomes for Peace Operations Conclusion and Implications Bibliography
Index