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Author | : James Matthews |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019965574X |
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A comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts during the Spanish Civil War. Draws extensively on unpublished archival material to analyse the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will.
Author | : Alexandra Sakaki |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815737378 |
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Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order? Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe and in East Asia, respectively, and their long-term reluctance to share the defense burden has become a perennial source of frustration for Washington. The potential security roles of Germany and Japan are becoming increasingly important given the uncertainty, indeed volatility, of today’s international environment. Under President Trump, friction among allies over burden-sharing is more intense than ever before. Meanwhile, the security environments in Europe and Asia have deteriorated because of the resurgence of a belligerent Russia under Vladimir Putin, the steady rise of an increasingly assertive China, and North Korea’s worrisome acquisition of nuclear weapons. Partly in response to these developments, Germany and Japan in recent years have boosted their security efforts, mainly by increasing defense spending and taking on a somewhat broader range of military missions. Even so, because of their cultures of anti-militarism resistance remains strong in both countries to rebuilding the military and assuming more responsibility for sustaining regional or even global peace. In Reluctant Warriors, a team of noted international experts critically examines how and why Germany and Japan have modified their military postures since 1990 so far, and assesses how far the countries still have to go—and why. The contributors also highlight the risks the United States takes if it makes too simplistic a demand for the two countries to “do more.”
Author | : Patrick M. Dennis |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774836008 |
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During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.
Author | : Jon Stafford |
Publisher | : BQB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939371414 |
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World War II, 1939-1945, was easily the most destructive war in history; claiming the lives of from fifty to sixty millions of people. This historical fiction takes us "behind the scenes" in the lives of everyday people who became reluctant warriors. Each of the men depicted in this book—Joseph “Chip” Wiley, Jimmy DeValery, Harry Conners, and Theodore Rodgers—were admirable people who gave everything they had and became Army scouts, men in aircraft like the B-25, B-17, P-38, P-47. They went from the guy next door to operating Navy PT boats, submarines, destroyers, and heavy cruisers. They did what America and the world needed them to do. These men, and the millions they represent, had lives, families, and careers they left behind. And they were not the only ones to report for duty: their families also had to fight daily battles through hardships, through defeats, through loss. Reluctant Warriors brings these stories home to our hearts and reingnites our gratitude for those who fight so we can live free.
Author | : Stefano Recchia |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 150170155X |
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Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, the Balkans, and Libya, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses this important question by drawing on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders.The most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders, he argues, tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. America's top-level generals, by contrast, are usually "reluctant warriors" who worry that intervention will result in open-ended stabilization missions; consequently, the military craves international burden sharing and values the potential exit ramp for U.S. forces that a handoff to the UN or NATO can provide.Recchia demonstrates that when the military speaks up and clearly expresses its concerns, even strongly pro-intervention civilian leaders can be expected to work hard to secure UN or NATO approval—if only to reassure the military about the likelihood of sustained burden sharing. Conversely, when the military stays silent, as it did in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War, bellicose civilian leaders are empowered; the United States is then more likely to bypass multilateral bodies, and it may end up carrying a heavy stabilization burden largely by itself. Recchia's argument that the military has the ability to contribute not only to a more prudent but also to a more multilateralist U.S. intervention policy may be counterintuitive, but the evidence is compelling.
Author | : Mathilde Gilzinger |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2002-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1465316922 |
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Reluctant Warriors, 1941-1945, an autobiographical memoir set in New York, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and the European Theater of Operations, describes the lives of young people caught up in World War II, daily life during those years, and the profound effect the war had on that life. Extensive illustrations include original photographs, official Army correspondence, wedding invoices and menus, telegrams, V-mail, and air combat descriptions over Europe. The uniqueness of the war years resonates deeply in the minds of those who endured them. Reluctant Warriors presents an honest, intimate, and poignant description of many peoples lives during those years.
Author | : Donald Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Punic War, 3d, 149-146 B.C |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Connealy |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493416111 |
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Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children who are terrified of him and stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he worries may be trying to keep the children. When danger descends on the cabin where they're huddled, Cam is hurt trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much and wonders if it might be best for him to move on without them. When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back their affection--and in the process he might just win her heart as well.
Author | : Vladimir Kontorovich |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190868120 |
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During the Cold War, Western economic studies of the USSR neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy. Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book has broad relevance for national security uses of social science research today.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Author | : Hannah Wilson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2009-11-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0753419165 |
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Ten warriors are gathered from across time to fight five epic battles.