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Book An Introduction to Theater Strategy and Regional Security

Download or read book An Introduction to Theater Strategy and Regional Security written by Clarence J. Bouchat and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater strategy and theater security cooperation are two of the most important tools available in attaining national security. They offer an effective means for geographic Combatant Commanders to engage other countries, deter aggression, or resolve crises. However, there is little current, concise, and comprehensive guidance on how they are planned and implemented. This paper explains what theater strategy is, its basis, how it is formulated, and how it is executed with emphasis on theater security cooperation. The author illustrates the role in national affairs of theater strategy and security cooperation through examples from a case study leading up to and during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Book Addicted to Failure

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  • Author : Brian Loveman
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780742540989
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Addicted to Failure written by Brian Loveman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here. This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.S. policies--ostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, human rights, and democracy--instead contribute to widespread corruption, erosion of government authority, human rights violations, and increasing destabilization? Why have the war on drugs and the war on terror neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in Latin America? Why do Latin American governments, the European Union, and U.S. policymakers often work at cross-purposes when they all claim to be committed to "democratization" and "development" in the region? Leading scholars answer these questions by detailing the nature of U.S. economic and security strategies in Latin America and the Andean region since 1990. They analyze the impacts and responses to these strategies by policymakers, political leaders, and social movements throughout the region, explaining how programs often generate or exacerbate the very problems they were intended to solve. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this indispensable book focuses on the reasons for the failure of U.S. policies and their disastrous significance for Latin America and the United States alike. Contributions by: Adri n Bonilla, Pilar Gait n, Monica Herz, Kenneth Lehman, Brian Loveman, Enrique Obando, Orlando J. P rez, Eduardo Pizarro, Philipp Sch nrock-Mart nez, and Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

Book Outlaw Capital

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Tucker
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0820364495
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Outlaw Capital written by Jennifer L. Tucker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars’ worth of consumer goods—everything from cell phones to whiskey—providing cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street vendors and Brazilian “ant contrabandistas” capture some of the city’s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth through an insurgent urban epistemology of use, need, and care. Yet despite the city’s centrality, it is narrated as a backward, marginal, and lawless place. Outlaw Capital contests these sensationalist stories, showing how uneven development and the Paraguayan state made Ciudad de Este a gray space of profitable transgression. By studying the everyday illegalities of both elite traders and ordinary workers, Jennifer L. Tucker shows how racialized narratives of economic legitimacy across scales—not legal compliance—sort whose activities count as formal and legal and whose are targeted for reform or expulsion. Ultimately, reforms criminalized the popular economy while legalizing, protecting, and “whitening” elite illegalities.

Book Partnership for the Americas  Western Hemisphere Strategy and U S  Southern Command

Download or read book Partnership for the Americas Western Hemisphere Strategy and U S Southern Command written by James G. Stavridis and published by NDU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its creation in 1963, United States Southern Command has been led by 30 senior officers representing all four of the armed forces. None has undertaken his leadership responsibilities with the cultural sensitivity and creativity demonstrated by Admiral Jim Stavridis during his tenure in command. Breaking with tradition, Admiral Stavridis discarded the customary military model as he organized the Southern Command Headquarters. In its place he created an organization designed not to subdue adversaries, but instead to build durable and enduring partnerships with friends. His observation that it is the business of Southern Command to launch "ideas not missiles" into the command's area of responsibility gained strategic resonance throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America, and at the highest levels in Washington, DC.

Book INTRODUCTION TO THEATER STRATEGY AND REGIONAL SECURITY

Download or read book INTRODUCTION TO THEATER STRATEGY AND REGIONAL SECURITY written by Clarence J. Bouchat and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program

Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Defense Appropriations  S  Hrg  111 688  Fiscal Year 2011  111 2

Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations S Hrg 111 688 Fiscal Year 2011 111 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Partnership for the Americas

Download or read book Partnership for the Americas written by James Stavridis and published by NDU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, reflects on his tenure as Commander of United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The first Admiral to command Southern Command, Admiral Stavridis broke with tradition from day one, discarding the customary military staff model and creating an innovative organization designed not solely to subdue adversaries, but ... to build durable and lasting partnerships. From his unique perspective as commander, Stavridis uses his personal style to describe his vision for the command's role in the Americas, making most of limited resources to create goodwill and mutual respect, while countering illegal drug trafficking, overcoming a dangerous insurgency in Colombia, and responding to humanitarian crises. He devotes chapters to USSOUTHCOM's role in nurturing institutional respect for human rights among military and security forces of the region, advancing health security, and supporting a new regional strategy to counter the increasing challenge of urban and transnational gang violence. Citing the hemisphere's common geography, culture, economy, and history, Stavridis makes a case for a common approach and strategy for defending our "shared home of the Americas" through an international, interagency, and private-public approach, all connected through coherent effective strategic communication--Publisher's description.

Book Defense Issues

Download or read book Defense Issues written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower

Download or read book A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joint Force Quarterly

Download or read book Joint Force Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coercion  Cooperation  and Ethics in International Relations

Download or read book Coercion Cooperation and Ethics in International Relations written by Richard Ned Lebow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the recent essays of Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy. Lebow's work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standards are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevant in states' calculations of their national interest, Lebow has argued that self interest, and hence, national interest can only be formulated intelligently within a language of justice and morality. The essays here build on this pervasive theme in Lebow's work by presenting his substantive and compelling critique of strategies of deterrence and compellence, illustrating empirically and normatively how these strategies often produce results counter to those that are intended. The last section of the book, on counterfactuals, brings together another set of related articles which continue to probe the relationship between ethics and policy. They do so by exploring the contingency of events to suggest the subjective, and often self-fulfilling, nature of the frameworks we use to evaluate policy choices.

Book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008

Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Defence Of New Zealand

Download or read book In Defence Of New Zealand written by Ramesh Thakur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear-free zones, neutrality, and nonalignment are catchwords that recently have earned unprecedented international publicity for New Zealand's foreign policy. That country's defence policy has also been subjected to its most searching scrutiny since World War II. In this book, Dr. Ramesh Thakur addresses in depth the issues underlying worldwide

Book Security of the Western Alliance

Download or read book Security of the Western Alliance written by Cyrus Roberts Vance and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: