Soldiers and civil power : : supporting or substituting civil authorities in modern peace operations / / Thijs W. Brocades Zaalberg.

• Author: Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

An incisive study of policy issues and practice of the civil-military interface in the twentieth-century military operations from World War II to Kosovo.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I. The Civil-Military Interface in Twentieth-Century Military Operations -- 1. Substituting the Civil Power: Civil Affairs and Military Government in World War II -- 2. Supporting the Civil Power: Counterinsurgency and the Return to Conventional Warfare -- PART II. Complex Peacekeeping: The United Nations in Cambodia -- 3. Making Sense of the Mission: UNTAC's Military and Civil Mandates -- 4. The Slippery Slope toward Public Security: Soldiers and Policemen in Cambodia -- 5. 'Sanderson's Coup': Militarized Elections amidst Escalating Violence -- PART III. American Interventions: Segregating the Civil and Military Spheres -- 6. 'Peacekeeping' in a Power Vacuum: The Reluctant American Occupation of Somalia -- 7. Securing and Governing Baidoa: Australia's Living Laboratory in Somalia -- 8. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Widening the Civil-Military Gap in Bosnia -- PART IV. Kosovo. Military Government by Default -- 9. The Kosovo Force: Entering the Wasteland -- 10. The Kosovar Constabulary: The Race between Order and Disorder -- 11. Peacekeepers in Pursuit of Justice: Protecting and Prosecuting Serbs in Orahovac -- 12. The UÇK's Silent Coup: KFOR in the Civil Administrative Vacuum -- 13. The Tools at Hand: Civil-Military Cooperation in Kosovo -- Conclusion -- Primary Sources and Bibliography -- Glossary and Military Terminology -- Notes -- Sources of Illustrations -- Index