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Operation Lal Dora: India's aborted military intervention in Mauritius [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As India expands its strategic reach in the Indian Ocean, it will need friends that it can count on. The island state of Mauritius has long been one of India's closest allies in the region. This article discusses India's plans for a military intervention
Brewster, David, Rai, Ranjit
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Ideology and total war : military intellectuals and the analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The recent historical interest in the analysis of the lessons of the Spanish Civil War by the European powers has tended to focus very strongly on the tactical experiences and the study of new military technology.
Searle, DA
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Determinants of the Military Intervention of the Russian Federation in Syria

open access: yesFacta Simonidis, 2020
The USSR’s understanding of the Middle East through the prism of “the cold war” ideological competition with the United States of America was replaced by pragmatism.
Piotr Nowicki
doaj   +1 more source

Historicising intervention: Strategy and synchronicity in British intervention 1815-50 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Copyright @ 2013 British International Studies Association.This article identifies three key themes in British intervention for purposes of liberal reordering in the period 1815–50, namely the ‘opening-up’ of new market spaces (discussed in relation to ...
Birmingham   +21 more
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The Next American Century: A Traditional Hard Power Problem or a New World Order? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There is a general consensus that the new world order gathered steam in response to World War II. Major institutions like the United Nations, NATO, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all fortified the common belief that economic, social, and ...
Visco, Thomas, Zimmerman, Alex
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KENYA’S MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SOMALIA

open access: yesObrana a Strategie, 2022
The case study is focused on the last ten years of Kenyan military involvement in Somalia. It is based on literature review and expert interviews with field researchers and military members, which were conducted by the author.
Tomáš ZWIEFELHOFER
doaj   +1 more source

Military Intervention Via Drone Strikes [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of all attacks or 2,964 terror deaths. Exploring mechanisms,
Mahmood, Rafat, Jetter, Michael
openaire   +2 more sources

THE LIMITS OF RECOURSE TO FORCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY GEOPOLITICS [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019
Recourse to force represents a highly controversial subject matter, given its political sensitivity, as well as the legal framework that authorizes it.
Sandra Sophie-Elise OLĂNESCU
doaj  

THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE ARMED FORCES FOR PROTECTION OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION AS PART OF HUMANITARIAN CRISES MANAGEMENT. THE ROMANIAN APPROACH

open access: yesSecurity and Defence Quarterly, 2017
Th e actions of the military structures to protect the civilian population have evolved from air defence operations to complex missions of “human security”, based on prevention and intervention in any civil emergency situation facing a community.
Aurelian RAȚIU   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

English funding of the Scottish armies in England and Ireland 1640-1648 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The rebellion against Charles I's authority that began in Edinburgh in 1637 involved the Scots in successive invasions of England and armed intervention in Ireland. Historians have almost universally taken a negative view of Scottish involvement in these
Stewart, Laura A.M.
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