Barbara Elias

Why Allies Rebel (eBook, ePUB)

Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why do powerful intervening militaries have such difficulty managing comparatively weak local partners in counterinsurgency wars? Set within the context of costly, large-scale military interventions such as the US war in Afghanistan, this book explains the conditions by which local allies comply with (or defy) the policy demands of larger security partners. Analysing nine large-scale post-colonial counterinsurgency interventions including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Lebanon, Cambodia, and Angola, this book utilizes thousands of primary source documents to identify and examine over 450 policy requests proposed by intervening forces to local allies. By dissecting these problematic partnerships, this book exposes a critical political dynamic in military interventions. It will appeal to academics and policymakers addressing counterinsurgency issues in foreign policy, security studies and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108808316
• Artikelnr.: 62746363

Autorenporträt

Barbara Elias is Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College, Maine specializing in international relations, counterinsurgency warfare, national security, Islam and politics and US foreign policy. She was the Director of the Afghanistan/Pakistan/Taliban Documentation Project at The National Security Archive in Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why local allies defy or comply with requests from intervening allies
3. Methodology: wars, documents and data
4. The US in Iraq
5. The US in Afghanistan
6. The US in Vietnam
7. India in Sri Lanka
8. The USSR in Afghanistan
9. When small states intervene
10. Conclusion.