At the End of Military Intervention

Historical, Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Transition, Handover and Withdrawal
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872501-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 901 g

No modern intervention is intended to endure indefinitely; indeed some fashion of exit is always envisioned from the outset. This commitment to an exit is normally informed by an exit strategy. Whilst strategies of closure have been scrutinised recently, not least in light of charges of defective intentions and planning, the relations between the strategies, operations and tactics of exit have not been contextualised. Focus on the local, specific and bottom-up manifestations of transitions offers significant enhances to historical, theoretical and applied understandings.

This book is an introduction not just to the issues of transition, handover and withdrawal, but to exit as a package of theoretical concepts and how these have been understood, shaped and employed in historic and contemporary perspective. Drawing on a wide range of post-1945 examples derived from a variety of regions and periods, At the End of Military Intervention provides researchers and practitioners with a source book on what forms a crucial and often overlooked element of past and present interventions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Robert

Clack, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Forword

- Introduction: Principles, Themes and Problems in Transitions

- Part I: Historical and Theoretical Exits

- 1: John Darwin: Transition and the End of Empire

- 2: Karl Hack: Tropical Transitions in Colonial Counterinsurgency: From Malayan Emergency to Postcolonial Partnership

- 3: Robert Johnson: Transition: Britain's Decolonization of India and Pakistan

- 4: David Anderson: Exit From Empire: Counter-Insurgency and Decolonization in Kenya, 1952-1963

- 5: Aaron Edwards: 'A Graveyard for the British'? Tactics, Military Operations and the Paucity of Strategy in Aden, 1964-67

- 6: James Worrall: Transitioning In and Out of COIN: Efficiency, Legitimacy and Power in Oman

- 7: Saul Kelly: Vanishing Act: Britain's Abandonment of Arabia and Retreat from the Gulf

- 8: Rodric Braithwaite: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

- 9: Martin Evans: Stopping the Cycles of Violence: Political Transition in Algeria since 1988 in Comparative Context

- 10: Mark Battjes: The End of Operation New Dawn: The Tactics of the Tropic Lightning Division in Iraq

- 11: Roger Mac Ginty: Transitions and Hybrid Political Orders

- 12: Piers Robinson: News Media, Communications and the Limits of Perception Management during Military Operations

- Part II: The Practice of Exit: Security and Governance Transitions in Afghanistan

- 13: Peter Rundell: Delivering and Conceptualising Transition: Experiences and Lessons from the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team

- 14: Anthony King: Political Analysis and Understanding in Afghanistan: Towards Transition

- 15: Mark Beautement: Negotiated Agreements in Tactical Transitions: The Sangin Accord 2011

- 16: Antonio Giustozzi: Local and Tactical Political Accommodation: Evidence from Afghanistan

- 17: James Dunsby: The Changing Role of Contractors in Security Transition in Southern Afghanistan

- 18: Oliver Lewis and Andrew Britton: 'Gripping and Touching' the Afghan National Security Forces: Tactical and Operational Experiences during Operation HERRICK 16

- 19: Georgina Sinclair: 'Insider' / 'Outsider' Policing: Observations on the Role of UK Police (MDP) in Afghanistan and the Application of 'Lessons Learnt'

- 20: Lindsay Clutterbuck: The Other Side of COIN: New Challenges for British Police and Military in the 21st century

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Johnson is the Director of the Oxford Changing Character of War programme and Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College. A former army officer, he is the author of The Afghan Way of War (2011) and a specialist on historical and current conflicts in the Middle East and Asia.

Timothy Clack is a Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Changing Character of War Programme. He has held research and teaching positions at the University of Oxford since 2006, and has current research interests into various conflict drivers, including the ownership of the past, cultural hybridization, and trans-border migration and exchange, primarily related to areas in the Horn of Africa.