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The Validity of British Army counterinsurgency doctrine after the war in Iraq 2003-2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis analyses whether the British Army’s doctrinal approach for countering insurgency is still valid in the light of the war in Iraq. Why is this important? Insurgency remains a prevalent form of instability. In the absence of a major conventional
Alderson, A
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The general as statesman : exploring the professional need for commanders to support viable political outcomes in peace and stability operations as typified by the UK military approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The problem of theatre level politico-military arrangements during peace and stability operations is important because the intervening actors, working in complex and often ambiguous circumstances, need to calibrate the application of military and ...
Lovelock, R.
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'When the people are made the enemy': Human Rights, Military Doctrine and the Path to Atrocity in Vietnam and El Salvador [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Vietnam and Salvadoran wars were marked by examples of some of the worst atrocities committed during the course of twentieth century conflict. The massacres at My Lai in Vietnam and El Mozote in El Salvador came to be regarded by many as the defining
Stead, Andrew
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Civilian Detective Doctrine in the 1930s and its Transmission to the Military Police in 1940-42 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Special Investigation Branch (SIB) of the Royal Military Police (RMP) was formed in 1940, after the military authorities became concerned at the widespread theft of military stores by members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and following a ...
Moore, Colin   +6 more
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Implications for the U.S. of Anglo-French Defense Cooperation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper analyzes, from a predominantly UK perspective, the implications for the U.S. of the November 2, 2010, Anglo-French Defence Cooperation Treaty.
Ito, Pete   +5 more
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Guerre Révolutionnaire, Counter-insurgency, and U.S. Domestic Extremism

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2023
There is no shortage of academic literature regarding U.S. military veterans and their susceptibility to domestic extremist recruitment. However, this essay identifies a new potential culprit: military doctrine itself. Around 2006, amidst a deteriorating
Shane Praiswater, Quinn Hobbs
doaj  

France’s Nuclear Defence Strategy towards the Prospects for European Nuclear Deterrence

open access: yesPoliteja
The crisis of multilateralism and the growing strategic and military rivalry between superpowers is changing the stability and balance of forces in the world.
Tomasz Młynarski
doaj   +3 more sources

Skills for multiagency responses to international crises [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Overview Australian responses to international, complex emergencies and humanitarian crises, generated by natural disaster, conflicts or incidents, demand the coordinated responses of multiple civil-military-police actors and agencies.
Australian Civil-Military Centre
core  

Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

open access: yesOceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

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