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Author |
: Jason Lyall |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2020-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691194158 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691194157 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divided Armies by : Jason Lyall
How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to their levels of inequality. Introducing the concept of military inequality, Lyall demonstrates how a state's prewar choices about the citizenship status of ethnic groups within its population determine subsequent battlefield performance. Treating certain ethnic groups as second-class citizens, either by subjecting them to state-sanctioned discrimination or, worse, violence, undermines interethnic trust, fuels grievances, and leads victimized soldiers to subvert military authorities once war begins. The higher an army's inequality, Lyall finds, the greater its rates of desertion, side-switching, casualties, and use of coercion to force soldiers to fight. In a sweeping historical investigation, Lyall draws on Project Mars, a new dataset of 250 conventional wars fought since 1800, to test this argument. Project Mars breaks with prior efforts by including overlooked non-Western wars while cataloguing new patterns of inequality and wartime conduct across hundreds of belligerents. Combining historical comparisons and statistical analysis, Lyall also marshals evidence from nine wars, ranging from the Eastern Fronts of World Wars I and II to less familiar wars in Africa and Central Asia, to illustrate inequality's effects. Sounding the alarm on the dangers of inequality for battlefield performance, Divided Armies offers important lessons about warfare over the past two centuries—and for wars still to come.
Author |
: Jason Lyall |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2020-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691192437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069119243X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divided Armies by : Jason Lyall
How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to their levels of inequality. Introducing the concept of military inequality, Lyall demonstrates how a state's prewar choices about the citizenship status of ethnic groups within its population determine subsequent battlefield performance. Treating certain ethnic groups as second-class citizens, either by subjecting them to state-sanctioned discrimination or, worse, violence, undermines interethnic trust, fuels grievances, and leads victimized soldiers to subvert military authorities once war begins. The higher an army's inequality, Lyall finds, the greater its rates of desertion, side-switching, casualties, and use of coercion to force soldiers to fight. In a sweeping historical investigation, Lyall draws on Project Mars, a new dataset of 250 conventional wars fought since 1800, to test this argument. Project Mars breaks with prior efforts by including overlooked non-Western wars while cataloguing new patterns of inequality and wartime conduct across hundreds of belligerents. Combining historical comparisons and statistical analysis, Lyall also marshals evidence from nine wars, ranging from the Eastern Fronts of World Wars I and II to less familiar wars in Africa and Central Asia, to illustrate inequality's effects. Sounding the alarm on the dangers of inequality for battlefield performance, Divided Armies offers important lessons about warfare over the past two centuries—and for wars still to come.
Author |
: Max Boot |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 809 |
Release |
: 2013-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780871404244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871404249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present by : Max Boot
As fitting for the 21st century as von Clausewitz's "On War" was in its own time, "Invisible Armies" is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
Author |
: Are John Knudsen |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2017-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319551678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319551671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon by : Are John Knudsen
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality – its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over from the Syrian civil war and Hezbollah’s military engagement has magnified the security challenges facing the Army, making it a target. Massive foreign grants have sought to strengthen its military capability, stabilize the country and contain the Syria crisis. However, as this volume demonstrates, the real weakness of the LAF is not its lack of sophisticated armoury, but the fragile civil–military relations that compromise its fighting power, cripple its neutrality and expose it to accusations of partisanship and political bias. This testifies to both the importance of and the challenges facing multi-confessional armies in deeply divided countries.
Author |
: David Williams |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2010-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781595585950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1595585958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bitterly Divided by : David Williams
The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness. In this fascinating look at a hidden side of the South’s history, David Williams shows the powerful and little-understood impact of the thousands of draft resisters, Southern Unionists, fugitive slaves, and other Southerners who opposed the Confederate cause. “This fast-paced book will be a revelation even to professional historians. . . . His astonishing story details the deep, often murderous divisions in Southern society. Southerners took up arms against each other, engaged in massacres, guerrilla warfare, vigilante justice and lynchings, and deserted in droves from the Confederate army . . . Some counties and regions even seceded from the secessionists . . . With this book, the history of the Civil War will never be the same again.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Most Southerners looked on the conflict with the North as ‘a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,’ especially because owners of 20 or more slaves and all planters and public officials were exempt from military service . . . The Confederacy lost, it seems, because it was precisely the kind of house divided against itself that Lincoln famously said could not stand.” —Booklist, starred review
Author |
: Mark F. Bielski |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1612003583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781612003580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sons of the White Eagle in the American Civil War by : Mark F. Bielski
A chronicle of battle and bravery in the Civil War, as Polish officers who had lost their own country remained determined to fight for their new one, and for the ideals they had always upheld, whether freedom or independence, or whether North or South . . .
Author |
: John J. Mcgrath |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 2011-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781105056154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1105056155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other End of the Spear by : John J. Mcgrath
This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)
Author |
: Elizabeth R. Varon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 529 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190860608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019086060X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armies of Deliverance by : Elizabeth R. Varon
In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.
Author |
: Mao Tse-tung |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2012-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486119571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486119572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Guerrilla Warfare by : Mao Tse-tung
The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Author |
: Colin Edward Woodward |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2014-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813935423 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813935423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marching Masters by : Colin Edward Woodward
The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves, but they were products of the largest and most prosperous slaveholding civilization the world had ever seen, and they sought to maintain clear divisions between black and white, master and servant, free and slave. In Marching Masters Colin Woodward explores not only the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers but also its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defense of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels’ persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on. Slavery proved essential to the Confederate war machine, and Rebels strove to protect it just as they did Southern cities, towns, and railroads. Slaves served by the tens of thousands in the Southern armies—never as soldiers, but as menial laborers who cooked meals, washed horses, and dug ditches. By following Rebel troops' continued adherence to notions of white supremacy into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, the book carries the story beyond the Confederacy’s surrender. Drawing upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters, diaries, and memoirs, Marching Masters combines the latest social and military history in its compelling examination of the last bloody years of slavery in the United States.