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Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier?
Contributor(s): Arbuckle, James V. (Author)
ISBN: 0415393701     ISBN-13: 9780415393706
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $152.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2006
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This book is about Civil-Military Relations in Peace Support Operations.
The essential themes of this book are:
- Neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving modern conflicts;
- Joint civil-military efforts are needed, and those efforts must be deliberately planned from the outset of an operation;
- These efforts cannot be added on as afterthoughts when all else has failed.
The record of our efforts over nearly a decade and a half since the end of the Cold War demonstrates that we are doing badly at creating civil-military partnerships, and that we are not getting better. The issues are neither structural nor organizational, they are cultural. They involve attitudes, beliefs, perceptions - positive and negative, true and false. The solutions will involve changing attitudes, moving beyond prejudices, replacing competition with cooperation. The principal mechanisms for this will be common civil-military training and education.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - General
- Political Science | Security (national & International)
- Political Science | Peace
Dewey: 327.172
Series: Contemporary Security Studies (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.32" W x 9.52" (1.38 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field.

This book clearly shows us that:

  • neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving modern conflicts
  • joint civil-military efforts are needed, and those efforts must be deliberately planned from the outset of an operation; they cannot be added on as afterthoughts when all else has failed
  • the record of our efforts over nearly a decade and a half since the end of the Cold War demonstrates that we are doing badly at creating civil-military partnerships, and that we are not getting better.

James V. Arbuckle shows how these issues are neither structural nor organizational - they are cultural. They involve attitudes, beliefs, perceptions - positive and negative, true and false. The solutions will involve changing attitudes, moving beyond prejudices, replacing competition with cooperation. The principal mechanisms for this will be common civil-military training and education.