Foreign military intervention: (Record no. 3385)

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International Standard Book Number 0231072953 (pbk.)
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Personal name LEVITE Ariel E (ed.)
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Foreign military intervention:
Remainder of title the dynamics of protracted conflict
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Columbia Univ. Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1992
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 334p.
520 #3 - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Uses case studies of 6 major military interventions to address the questions of how do politically inspired military interventions come about, proceed and end. The cases are: United States in Vietnam; Soviet Union in Afghanistan; Syrian in Lebanon, Isreal in Lebanon, India in Sri Lanka, Cuba and South America in Angola. Concludes that military interventions are likely to unleash powerful new forces in an unstable political situation and in the absence of a quick, decisive, victory reactions will be triggered often introducing previously dormant forces; secondly, the degree of uncertainty usually exceeds what the intervenors consider likley; thirdly, interventions are extremely complex with an asymmetry of motivations between intervening and target nation, fourthly there is a high level of destructiveness, and finally intervenors do not learn from previous examples of intervention and remain convinced against the odds that this time the outcome will be what they want it to be.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element AFGHANISTAN WAR
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Topical term or geographic name entry element ANGOLA
General subdivision CIVIL WAR
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Topical term or geographic name entry element INTERVENTION
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Topical term or geographic name entry element LEBANON CIVIL WAR
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Topical term or geographic name entry element SRI LANKA TAMIL CONFLICT
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Topical term or geographic name entry element VIETNAM WAR
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Personal name JENTLESON Bruce W (ed.)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Mindef Library & Info Centre Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf 09/02/1998 2 341.584 LEV 0001700 08/07/2017 1 03/01/2024 Book