Foreign military intervention: (Record no. 3385)
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fixed length control field | 01560cam a2200205 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 0231072953 (pbk.) |
100 #1 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
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. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | AFGHANISTAN WAR |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | ANGOLA |
General subdivision | CIVIL WAR |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | INTERVENTION |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | LEBANON CIVIL WAR |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | SRI LANKA TAMIL CONFLICT |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | VIETNAM WAR |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | JENTLESON Bruce W (ed.) |
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
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r | Y |
s | Y |
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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 |