Understanding Complex Military Operations A case study approach 1st Edition by Melanne Civic, Volker Franke, Karen Guttieri ISBN 978-0415712804 0415712804

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ISBN 10:   0415712804

ISBN 13: 978-0415712804

Author:  Melanne Civic, Volker Franke,  Karen Guttieri

This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.

Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These challenges are exceedingly dynamic and complex because of the ever changing mix and number of actors involved, the pace with which the strategic and operational environments change, and the constraints placed on response options.

This volume presents a series of case studies to inspire active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. The case studies highlight dilemmas pertaining to the story of the case (case dilemma) and to its larger policy implications (policy dilemma). The cases stimulate readers to “get inside the heads” of case protagonists with widely differing cultural backgrounds, professional experiences, and individual and organisational interests. Overall, Understanding Complex Military Operations challenges the reader to recognize the importance of specific national security related issues and their inherent dilemmas, deduce policy implications, and discern lessons that might apply to other – perhaps even non-security related – areas of public policy, administration, and management.

This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict prevention, transitional justice, peacebuilding, security studies and professionals conducting field-based operations in potentially hazardous environments.

Table of contents: 

1. Complex Operations: Connecting Scholarship and Practice
Karen Guttieri and Volker Franke

Part I: Policy Questions
2. The Road to Good Intentions: British Nation-building in Aden – Scott Smitson
3. The Declarations of Independence: The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – Rudy L. Hightower II
4. Mozambique: A Chance for Peace – Ann L. Phillips
5. Basra: Strategic Dilemmas and Force Options – John Hodgson

Part II: Security Providers
6. Security by Contractor: Outsourcing in Peace and Stability Operations – Volker Franke
7. Leading Healing in a Broken Unit – Edward H. Powley and Scott N. Taylor
8. Right and Wrong, Balanced on the Edge of a Spear: U.S. Forces at a Mosque in Baghdad – Joshua Potter

Part III: Coordination Challenges
9. The Kuwait Task Force: Postconflict Planning and Interagency Coordination – Dennis Barlow
10. Dynamics of Humanitarian Assistance: Civil Affairs in the Horn of Africa – Jessica Piombo
11. CORDS Campaign of Pacification – Rufus Phillips
12. Security by Drones: The Global Market for Remote-Controlled Warfare – Rebecca LeFebvre

Part IV: Security and Development Program Challenges
13. Dynamic Tension: Security, Stability, and the Opium Trade – Peter Curry
14. A Penny for Your Thoughts, a Nickel for Your Heart: Buying Popular Support for Counterinsurgency – Justin Gorkowski
15. Reintegrating Child Soldiers – Kim Fletcher

Part V: Analytic Cases
16. Whole of Society Conflict Prevention: A Case Study on Kenya’s Success Contrasted with Failures in Afghanistan and Iraq – Lisa Schirch
17. Military Intervention and Diplomatic Engagements in Libya: A Collage of Policy, Force and Law – Anna F. Triponel and Paul R. Williams
18. The Iraq War: Efforts during Conflict to Address Past Atrocities and Seek Accountability – Sandra L. Hodgkinson

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