Military occupations in the age of self-determination: The history neocons neglected

"This book offers a perspective decidedly different from that of the Bush Administration and its neoconservative supporters. Since the United Nations embraced the right of national self-determination in 1945, the historical odds have been unfavorable to great powers that impose military occupat...

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Main Author: Gannon, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. [u.a.] Praeger Security Internat. 2008
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"This book offers a perspective decidedly different from that of the Bush Administration and its neoconservative supporters. Since the United Nations embraced the right of national self-determination in 1945, the historical odds have been unfavorable to great powers that impose military occupations on smaller nations. This point is bolstered by the evidence from history, and is particularly pertinent to the American occupation of Iraq, where a robust insurgency has delayed projected successes by the administration and wartime planners. Drawing on historical antecedents to the occupation of Iraq, Gannon examines events such as the British Struggles in Palestine, French enterprises in Algeria, the Soviet debacle in Afghanistan, and other instances in which occupying powers to demonstrate the struggles and failures of occupying powers in the face of determined insurgencies."--Publisher's description.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Iraq : the height of folly -- Zionism : violent return home -- Algeria : savagery unchained -- Malaya and Kenya : dying gasps of empire -- Vietnam : selective terrorism -- Lebanon : double defeat of the West -- Palestine : occupation and intifadas -- Afghanistan : the Soviet Vietnam -- Iraq : a thousand cuts
Physical Description:XI, 202 S.
ISBN:9780313353826
0313353824

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