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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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