Cass Military Studies
Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations: Winning the Peace
1st Edition
By Robert Egnell
March 14, 2011
This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international ...
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader
1st Edition
By Alexander Hill
December 06, 2010
This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides ...
Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815–2007
1st Edition
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By Donald Stoker
January 26, 2010
This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and ...
Civil-Military Cooperation in Post-Conflict Operations: Emerging Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Christopher Ankersen
December 21, 2009
Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is the relationship between militaries and humanitarians. Largely conducted in post-conflict environments, CIMIC has become a key characteristic of military operations in the twenty-first century. However, the field is mostly understood through stereotype rather ...
Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations: Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response
1st Edition
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By Joseph Soeters, Philippe Manigart
November 26, 2009
This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them. Military organizations, like other complex ...
Private Military and Security Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations
1st Edition
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By Andrew Alexandra, Deane-Peter Baker, Marina Caparini
November 26, 2009
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to ...
Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means
1st Edition
By Alastair Finlan
November 16, 2009
This volume undertakes a systematic analysis of the relationship between Special Forces and contemporary strategy, explaining the resurgence of interest in Special Forces, particularly in the West, by exploring their appeal over traditional conventional force options in the current ‘War on Terror’....
Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War
1st Edition
By Felix Patrikeeff, Harry Shukman
July 24, 2009
This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war, and one in which the railways played a key part. Felix Patrikeeff and Harry Shukman examine some of the key dimensions of the Russo-Japanese War, most notably how uncomfortably technological ...
American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?
1st Edition
By Morten G. Ender
March 26, 2009
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a ...
The Military and Domestic Politics: A Concordance Theory of Civil-Military Relations
1st Edition
By Rebecca L. Schiff
February 05, 2009
The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention. Models dealing with the relationship between the military...
Civil-Military Relations in Europe: Learning from Crisis and Institutional Change
1st Edition
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By Hans Born, Marina Caparini, Karl Haltiner, Jürgen Kuhlmann
January 30, 2009
This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic institutions, and all the necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The contributors show how contemporary European states manage ...
Cultural Diversity in the Armed Forces: An International Comparison
1st Edition
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By Joseph L. Soeters, Jan Van der Meulen
January 30, 2009
This volume explores ethnicity and gender developments in relation to the military. In some countries, the armed forces have a long history in responding to ethnic diversity, while elsewhere it has come up only recently as a policy issue. An even-handed representation of ethnic minorities in the ...