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Building militaries in fragile states : challenges for the United States /

Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budget...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Karlin, Mara E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the problem
  • Greece: the "will to win" was fruitless without U.S. involvement
  • South Vietnam: building a military "American style"
  • Lebanon I: "the United States is short of breath" but others are not
  • Lebanon II: "the side that won was willing to kill and be killed"
  • Findings and implications.