Building Militaries in Fragile States : : Challenges for the United States / / Mara E. Karlin.
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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Karlin, Mara E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Building Militaries in Fragile States : Challenges for the United States / Mara E. Karlin. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (296 p.) : 6 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Understanding the Problem -- Chapter 2. Greece: The “Will to Win” Was Fruitless Without U.S. Involvement -- Chapter 3. South Vietnam: Building a Military “American Style” -- Chapter 4. Lebanon I: “The United States Is Short of Breath” but Others Are Not -- Chapter 5. Lebanon II: “The Side That Won Was Willing to Kill and Be Killed” -- Chapter 6. Findings and Implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Military assistance, American Evaluation. Military assistance, American Greece Evaluation. Military assistance, American Lebanon Evaluation. Military assistance, American Vietnam (Republic) Evaluation. Security Assistance Program. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control. bisacsh Military Science. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294132 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294132 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812294132.jpg |
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