Building Militaries in Fragile States Challenges for the United States
Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budget...

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1. Verfasser: Karlin, Mara E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2017]
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1945-2017
Military Science
Political Science
Public Policy
Military assistance, American > Evaluation
Military assistance, American > Greece > Evaluation
Military assistance, American > Vietnam (Republic) > Evaluation
Security Assistance Program
Militärhilfe
USA
Vietnam
Griechenland
Libanon
Online-Zugang:DE-Aug4
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so, Karlin predicts, given U.S. sensitivity to casualties, a constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism, increasing transnational security threats, the proliferation of fragile states, and limits on U.S. public support for military interventions. However, its record of success is thin.While most analyses of these programs focus on training and equipment, Building Militaries in Fragile States argues that this approach is misguided. Instead, given the nature of a fragile state, Karlin homes in on the outsized roles played by two key actors: the U.S. military and unhelpful external actors. With a rich comparative case-study approach that spans Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Karlin unearths provocative findings that suggest the traditional way of working with foreign militaries needs to be rethought. Benefiting from the practical eye of an experienced national security official, her results-based exploration suggests new and meaningful findings for building partner militaries in fragile states
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 6 illus
ISBN:9780812294132
DOI:10.9783/9780812294132

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