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100		1	_aLEVITE Ariel E (ed.)
245		0	_aForeign military intervention: _bthe dynamics of protracted conflict
260			_aNew York: _bColumbia Univ. Press, _c1992
300			_a334p.
520		3	_aUses 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			_aAFGHANISTAN WAR
650			_aANGOLA _xCIVIL WAR
650			_aINTERVENTION
650			_aLEBANON CIVIL WAR
650			_aSRI LANKA TAMIL CONFLICT
650			_aVIETNAM WAR
700			_aJENTLESON Bruce W (ed.)
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