The Soldier and the Changing Stateis the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of ...democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. Barany also demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of newly democratizing regimes. But how do democratic armies come about? What conditions encourage or impede democratic civil-military relations? And how can the state ensure the allegiance of its soldiers?
Barany examines the experiences of developing countries and the armed forces in the context of major political change in six specific settings: in the wake of war and civil war, after military and communist regimes, and following colonialism and unification/apartheid. He evaluates the army-building and democratization experiences of twenty-seven countries and explains which predemocratic settings are most conducive to creating a military that will support democracy. Highlighting important factors and suggesting which reforms can be expected to work and fail in different environments, he offers practical policy recommendations to state-builders and democratizers.
This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam.
In late summer 2002, the ...Pentagon considered giving the press an inside view of the upcoming invasion of Iraq. The decision was surprising, and the innovative "embedded media program" itself received intense coverage in the media. Its critics argued that the program was simply a new and sophisticated form of propaganda. Their implicit assumption was that the Pentagon had become better at its news management and had learned to co-opt the media.
This new book tests this assumption, introducing a model of organizational learning and redraws the US military’s cumbersome learning curve in public affairs from Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, the Balkans to Afghanistan, examining whether past lessons were implemented in Iraq in 2003. Thomas Rid argues that while the US armed forces have improved their press operations, America’s military is still one step behind fast-learning and media-savvy global terrorist organizations.
War and Media Operations will be of great interest to students of the Iraq War, media and war, propaganda, political communications and military studies in general.
'War and Media Operations is must-reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern wars are sold to public opinion.' Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning at NATO, alliance spokesman during the Kosovo War 'Those who support or oppose 'embedded' journalism will find ammunition here but Rid himself doesn't take shots.' Steven Komarow, USA TODAY, embedded with the US Army's V Corps during the Iraq War 'thought-provoking, insightful, and deeply engaging' Ikujiro Nonaka, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, former Xerox Professor of Knowledge, Haas School of Business, University of Berkeley, author of The Knowledge Creating Company 'Thomas Rid demonstrates how nimble adversaries such as Al-Qaeda are coming up with their own information strategy.' James Mann, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, author of Rise of the Vulcans 'The best analysis I have yet seen of the role of Public Affairs within the wider context of Information Operations.' Philip Taylor, University of Leeds, UK, author of Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda
1. Introduction Part 1: The Military as a Learning Organization 2. Perspectives on Military Learning 3. A Model of Strategic Innovation Part 2: The History of Media Operations 4. Disastrous Public Affairs: Vietnam 5. Restrictive Public Affairs: Grenada, Panama, and the Persian Gulf 6. Experimental Public Affairs: Somalia, the Balkans, and Afghanistan Part 3: A Case Study of Strategic Innovation 7. Retrieving Past Experiences? 8. Strategic Public Affairs: Iraq Part 4: Discussion and Outlook 9. The Friendly Learning Loop 10. The Adversarial Learning Loop
In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of indigenous ...peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific theater, Native servicemen were now being employed for contributions that were unique to their Native cultures. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerilla patrollers, coastwatchers, and regular soldiers.
Defending Whose Country?is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific theater. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War.
In the coming decade, NATO faces growing fiscal austerity and declining defense budgets. This study analyzes the impact of planned defense budget cuts on the capabilities of seven European members of ...NATO: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Poland. The authors assess the implications of the cuts for NATO capabilities and strategy and for U.S. policy.
Nerve entrapments in the lower extremity are rare and can be difficult to diagnose. Here we describe a Canadian Armed Forces veteran with left posteriorlateral calf pain. The patient's condition was ...previously misdiagnosed as a left-sided mid-substance Achilles tendinosis, which subsequently led to mismanagement, persistent pain and severe functional limitations. After performing a thorough evaluation, we diagnosed the patient with chronic left-sided sural neuropathy secondary to entrapment within the gastrocnemius fascia. The patient's physical symptoms abated completely with chiropractic care, while overall disability improved substantially after taking part in an interdisciplinary pain program. The objectives of this case report are to describe a challenging differential diagnosis of sural neuropathy, and present conservative whole-person management options according to the patient's needs and goals. (JCCA. 2023;67(1):67-76) KEY WORDS : neuropathic pain, interdisciplinary, rehabilitation, differential diagnosis, sural nerve La compression des nerfs dans les membres inferieurs est rare et peut etre difficile a diagnostiquer. Nous decrivons ici le cas d'un veteran des Forces armees canadiennes souffrant d'une douleur posterolaterale gauche au mollet. L'etat du patient avait ete diagnostique a tort comme une tendinite achilleenne moyenne du cote gauche, ce qui a entraine une mauvaise prise en charge, une douleur persistante et de graves limitations fonctionnelles. Apres une evaluation approfondie, nous avons diagnostique chez le patient une neuropathie surale chronique du cote gauche, secondaire a une compression du fascia gastrocnemien. Les symptomes physiques du patient ont completement disparu grace aux soins chiropratiques, tandis que l'incapacite globale s'est considerablement amelioree apres avoir participe a un programme interdisciplinaire de lutte contre la douleur. Les objectifs de ce rapport de cas sont de decrire un diagnostic differentiel difficile de neuropathie surale et de presenter des options de gestion conservatrice de la personne entiere en fonction des besoins et des objectifs du patient. (JCCA. 2023;67(1):67-76) MOTS CLES : douleur neuropathique, interdisciplinaire, rehabilitation, diagnostic differentiel, nerf sural
Though a part of American soldiers' lives since the Revolutionary War, by World War II music could be broadcast to the front. Today it accompanies soldiers from the recruiting office to the ...battlefield. For this book, Jonathan Pieslak interviewed returning veterans to learn about the place of music in the Iraq War and in contemporary American military culture in general. Pieslak describes how American soldiers hear, share, use, and produce music both on and off duty. He studies the role of music from recruitment campaigns and basic training to its use in country before and during missions. Pieslak explores themes of power, chaos, violence, and survival in the metal and hip-hop music so popular among the troops, and offers insight into the daily lives of American soldiers in the Middle East.
Victims' State HSIA, KE-CHIN
2022, 2023-02-23, 2022-05-13
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Victims' State is the first integrated account of how Imperial Austria and the successor Austrian Republic responded to the needs of citizen-soldiers and their families in the age of mass politics ...and the First World War. It shows that compulsory military service and war mobilization changed the mission of the Austrian state and citizens' understanding of what they were entitled to, thus showing how war victim welfare was central to shaping modern European welfare state.
Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the air-delivered munitions mix challenge. RDM is quantitative, decision support methodology ...designed to inform decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty and complexity. This proof-of-concept demonstration suggests that RDM could help defense planners make plans more robust to a wide range of hard-to-predict futures.
Before 1940, the Japanese empire stood as the greatest single threat to the American presence in the Pacific and East Asia. To a lesser degree, the formerly hegemonic colonial powers of Britain, ...France, and the Netherlands still controlled portions of the region. At the same time, subjugated peoples in East Asia and Southeast Asia struggled to throw off colonialism. By the late 1930s, the competition exploded into armed conflict. Japan looked like the early victor, but the United States eventually established itself as the hegemonic power in the Pacific Basin by 1945. Yet when it comes to the American movement out into the Pacific, there is more to the story that has yet to be revealed. In War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941–1972, editor Hal Friedman brings together nine essays that explore lesser known aspects and consequences of America's military expansion into the Pacific during and after World War II. This study explores how the United States won the Pacific War against Japan and how it sought to secure that victory in the decades that followed, ensure it never endured another Pearl Harbor–style defeat, and saw the Pacific fulfill a Manifest Destiny–like role as an American frontier projected toward East Asia. The collection explores the role of the US military in the Pacific Basin in different ways by presenting essays on interservice rivalry and military advising as well as unique topics that are new to military history, such as the investigations of strategic communications, military public relations, institutional cultures of elite forces, foodways, and the military's interaction with the press. Together, these essays provide a path for historians to pursue groundbreaking areas of research about the Pacific and establish the Pacific War as the pivotal point in the twentieth century in the Pacific Basin.
