Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Alexandra Sakaki and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order? Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe and in East Asia, respectively, and their long-term reluctance to share the defense burden has become a perennial source of frustration for Washington. The potential security roles of Germany and Japan are becoming increasingly important given the uncertainty, indeed volatility, of today’s international environment. Under President Trump, friction among allies over burden-sharing is more intense than ever before. Meanwhile, the security environments in Europe and Asia have deteriorated because of the resurgence of a belligerent Russia under Vladimir Putin, the steady rise of an increasingly assertive China, and North Korea’s worrisome acquisition of nuclear weapons. Partly in response to these developments, Germany and Japan in recent years have boosted their security efforts, mainly by increasing defense spending and taking on a somewhat broader range of military missions. Even so, because of their cultures of anti-militarism resistance remains strong in both countries to rebuilding the military and assuming more responsibility for sustaining regional or even global peace. In Reluctant Warriors, a team of noted international experts critically examines how and why Germany and Japan have modified their military postures since 1990 so far, and assesses how far the countries still have to go—and why. The contributors also highlight the risks the United States takes if it makes too simplistic a demand for the two countries to “do more.”
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Ty Patterson and published by Three Aces Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TO CATCH A TRAITOR The Warriors have recovered from Zeb Carter's mission in the Congo. They now find themselves helping the FBI. USA's premier investigative agency has a mole in its ranks. The betrayer has access to highly classified intel and is a threat to national security. The Warriors respond by deploying their maverick intelligence analyst Broker. Who makes the shocking discovery that the traitor is not owned by a foreign government. The truth is worse. And the repercussions can trigger a devastation the kind of which the country hasn't seen before. Before long, the investigation leads to a showdown. The Warriors - all by themselves - on one side, the city's organized crime gangs on the other. Broker and his team can't afford to lose that battle, nor can they give up the investigation. The odds against them are overwhelming. The mafia gangs have come together in an unprecedented move. And the mole is helping the criminals. And what of the mysterious assassin tailing them? He might prove more lethal than the mole or the gangs. 'Non-stop action isn't a tired old cliche in this book's case. The Reluctant Warrior delivers NON-STOP ACTION!' 'Pedal-to-metal, needle-in-the-red thrills!' 'You won't like Zeb Carter and his Warriors. You'll LOVE them!'
Download or read book Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors written by Stefano Recchia and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, the Balkans, and Libya, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses this important question by drawing on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders.The most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders, he argues, tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. America's top-level generals, by contrast, are usually "reluctant warriors" who worry that intervention will result in open-ended stabilization missions; consequently, the military craves international burden sharing and values the potential exit ramp for U.S. forces that a handoff to the UN or NATO can provide.Recchia demonstrates that when the military speaks up and clearly expresses its concerns, even strongly pro-intervention civilian leaders can be expected to work hard to secure UN or NATO approval—if only to reassure the military about the likelihood of sustained burden sharing. Conversely, when the military stays silent, as it did in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War, bellicose civilian leaders are empowered; the United States is then more likely to bypass multilateral bodies, and it may end up carrying a heavy stabilization burden largely by itself. Recchia's argument that the military has the ability to contribute not only to a more prudent but also to a more multilateralist U.S. intervention policy may be counterintuitive, but the evidence is compelling.
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Patrick M. Dennis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Dominick Forte and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history there have been recorded incidents of angels visiting earth. The Archangel Gabriel is credited with the most interactions with mortals. He is written about by diverse numbers of religions and cultures throughout the ages, and his identity is unmistakable. Gabriel is The Reluctant Warrior. He is reflective, reserved and sensitive and is heaven’s leading musician and musical director. Gabriel would prefer to spend his existence leading the choirs of angels in song and celestial music. However, he must respond to the call of duty out of loyalty and obedience to God and Michael, commander of the Heavenly Host. Whenever God requires a fighting force of angels or an emissary to earth Gabriel is called to action. Although completely opposite in personality and motivation to the Archangel Michael, it is Gabriel whom God designates as Michael’s second in command and it is Gabriel who most often gets the nod when God wishes to intervene in the affairs of man. This narrative chronicles events such as Satan’s great rebellion and the expulsion of the fallen angels from heaven, Gabriel’s relationships with other angels in heaven and his frequent interactions with us on Earth. Here he writes of his role in the ongoing history of God’s creation and gives first hand reports of his experiences as God emissary to man. The Reluctant Warrior takes us through all of Gabriel the Archangel’s recorded experiences throughout history right up to his ultimate role as leader against the antichrist during the Apocalypse. The Reluctant Warrior presents the history of God’s creation from its early stages until the Second Coming through the voice of God’s most celebrated Archangel.
Download or read book Reluctant Cold Warriors written by Vladimir Kontorovich and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, Western economic studies of the USSR neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy. Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book has broad relevance for national security uses of social science research today.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Download or read book Versus Warriors written by Hannah Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten warriors are gathered from across time to fight five epic battles.
Download or read book Warriors Don t Cry written by Melba Beals and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Download or read book Knights of the Crown written by Roland Green and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knights of Solamnia were the greatest order of chivalry in the history of Krynn. All those who wish to become Solamnic Knights must first enter as squires of the Knights of the Crown, with whom they begin their training in the virtue of loyalty. This is the story of Sir Pirvan the Wayward, whose reluctant and inauspicious beginnings as Pirvan the Spell Thief bore few clues to his potential as a Knight of the Crown. Roland J. Green is the author of the Starcruiser Shennandoa and Wandor series and numerous Conan novels, and is coauthor (with Jerry Pournelle) of the Jannisaries series. The Warriors series details the exploits of the heroes and villains of the War of the Lance.
Download or read book Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors written by Stefano Recchia and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, the Balkans, and Libya, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses this important question by drawing on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders.The most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders, he argues, tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. America's top-level generals, by contrast, are usually "reluctant warriors" who worry that intervention will result in open-ended stabilization missions; consequently, the military craves international burden sharing and values the potential exit ramp for U.S. forces that a handoff to the UN or NATO can provide.Recchia demonstrates that when the military speaks up and clearly expresses its concerns, even strongly pro-intervention civilian leaders can be expected to work hard to secure UN or NATO approval—if only to reassure the military about the likelihood of sustained burden sharing. Conversely, when the military stays silent, as it did in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War, bellicose civilian leaders are empowered; the United States is then more likely to bypass multilateral bodies, and it may end up carrying a heavy stabilization burden largely by itself. Recchia's argument that the military has the ability to contribute not only to a more prudent but also to a more multilateralist U.S. intervention policy may be counterintuitive, but the evidence is compelling.
Download or read book Women and War written by Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.
Download or read book Maori Warriors written by Ray McClellan and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2012 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging images accompany information about Māori warriors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Grunt The Curious Science of Humans at War written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior High Sierra Sweethearts Book 2 written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children who are terrified of him and stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he worries may be trying to keep the children. When danger descends on the cabin where they're huddled, Cam is hurt trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much and wonders if it might be best for him to move on without them. When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back their affection--and in the process he might just win her heart as well.
Download or read book Warriors and Scholars written by Peter B. Lane and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Presents scholarship from eminent historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. The editors have added contextual and commentary footnotes. These papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically, starting from World War II.
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by James Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant Warriors challenges traditional political interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, and sets it in a new and immediately human light. It is a comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts, and analyses the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will. While militants on both sides joined the conflict voluntarily, millions of Spanish men coped with the military uprising as an unwanted intrusion into their lives. James Matthews firstly examines the climate in which both sides implemented mass conscription within their zones. He analyses the process of conscription from call-up to placement in a unit, and looks at the methods employed to motivate and maintain the morale of drafted men, as well as the approaches to discipline in the two armies. Finally, he examines situations in which men avoided front line service. These accounted for constant manpower losses on both sides, and were particularly marked for the Republic. Reluctant Warriors reveals that the Nationalist Army managed its conscripted men better than the Republican Popular Army; a vital factor in determining the ultimate outcome of the war.
Download or read book Zombie Army written by Daniel Byers and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombie Army tells the story of Canada’s Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as “zombies” for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. As Byers argues, although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they also soon came to be a steady source of recruits for active duty overseas. While Canadian generals were criticized for championing an overseas army too large to maintain through voluntary enlistment – leading inevitably to calls to send conscripts to Europe – until now there has been little satisfactory explanation for why military leaders pushed for (and why politicians accepted) such a sizeable overseas force. In the first full-length book on the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines underused and newly discovered records to argue that although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they soon became a steady source of recruits from which the army found volunteers to serve overseas. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec participated only grudgingly in the war.
