War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

contribute to a common security mission, irrespective of whether their own national interests are seriously at risk. But for a p ...

included problems with the Clinton administration and the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as with the European NATO allies, is ...

Or was the strategic history of the 1990s actually more complicated than a simple, albeit elemental, shift in the character of w ...

in 1991 because they needed Iraq to balance Ayatollah Khomeini’s fundamentalist Iran in the Gulf. The first Gulf War proved to b ...

province of Kosovo. There were many minor players, too: the Slovenes, who wisely bade farewell to the Yugoslavian Federation in ...

necessary here to mention the atrocities committed by all sides, though especially the Serbs, in the former Yugoslavia, the like ...

In 1993 the Tutsis staged a coup in Burundi and slaughtered 100,000 of their rival Hutus. The following year the Hutus achieved ...

In 1995 there was intrastate conflict in Croatia, Russia (Chechnya), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambod ...

Did the 1990s witness ‘the transformation of war’, as was argued by Martin van Creveld? Further reading M. Bowden Black Hawk D ...

17 9/11 and the age of terror Introduction: the return of a master narrative What was missing from the 1990s was the serious eng ...

forty-five years, had been replaced. Terrorism, particularly when religiously motivated and devoted to inflicting catastrophic l ...

area of Pakistan. Notably, the most charismatic of al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden, escaped to remain a thorn in America’s f ...

It was behind the failed attempt to blow up one of the towers of the World Trade Center on 23 February 1993 (had this succeeded, ...

destroying the threat before it reaches our borders. While the United States will constantly strive to enlist the support of the ...

But if the United States, and possibly NATO, should anticipate conflict, including the possibility of warfare, with a superpower ...

worth noting that although American and American-led forces were militarily victorious in each of the four campaigns just cited, ...

(UAVs), the United States currently owns regular warfare. But this happy condition for Washington has its limitations. First, Am ...

to regard war and politics as separate realms. Similarly, the significance of war’s socio- cultural context frequently has not b ...

K. Booth and T. Dunne (eds) Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). ...

18 Irregular warfare Guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists Introduction: two kinds of warfare It is both useful and historically ...