British Generals in Blair’s Wars

British Generals in Blair’s Wars（Military Strategy and Operational Art）
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发货周期：预计5-7周发货

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Jonathan Bailey and Richard Iron

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Routledge

出版时间

2013年08月16日

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9781409437352

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404

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246x174mm

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英文

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This is a truly unique and invaluable book. For the first time, we are offered first-hand testimony about Britain’s involvement in recent campaigns by senior participants. In addition to touching on themes like civilian-military relations, the operational direction of war and relationships with allies, these eyewitness accounts give a real sense of how the character of a war changes even as it is being fought. It will be essential reading for those in military academies and staff colleges, not only in Britain but throughout NATO, and especially in the USA. It also has profound policy implications, as both the UK and NATO more generally reassess their strategies and the value of intervention operations. It will also become a primary source for historians and students of the wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular.

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Contents: Introduction; Section 1 Setting the Scene: The political context: why we went to war and the mismatch of ends, ways and means, Jonathan Bailey; The Northern Ireland campaign: the challenges of command, Alistair Irwin; Command of Kosovo Force 1999, Mike Jackson; Sierra Leone 2000: pregnant with lessons, David Richards. Section 2 Hard Lessons: Rebuilding Iraq: humanitarian assistance and reconstruction, Tim Cross; Southern Iraq 2003–2004: multinational command, Andrew Stewart; Great expectations: broadening the military role to include nation building, Barney White-Spunner; Iraq 2004: the view from Baghdad, Andrew Graham; Modern campaigning: from a practitioner’s perspective, John McColl; The British Army and thinking about the operational level, John Kiszely; 21st-century operational leadership: Sierra Leone, Baghdad and Northern Ireland, Nick Parker. Section 3 Iraq 2006–2009: Success of a Sort: Generals and generalship, Graeme Lamb; Southern Iraq 2006 and Operation Sinbad, Richard Shirreff; Basra 2007 – the challenges for a modern major general, Jonathan Shaw; Campaigning and generalship – Iraq 2008, William Rollo; Basra 2008 – Operation Charge of the Knights, Richard Iron; The Iraq campaign – insights as a British staff officer at the headquarters of Generals Casey and Petraeus, Piers Hankinson; Basra 2008 – first do no harm, Sandy Storrie; The psychological impact of operations in Iraq, Simon Wessely. Section 4 Learning in Afghanistan: Multinational command in Afghanistan 2006: NATO at the cross-roads, Chris Brown; The challenges to a comprehensive approach to counter-insurgency, Nick Pounds; NATO operations in Afghanistan 2008–2009: a theatre level view, Jon Riley; Helmand 2007–2008: behavioural conflict – from general to strategic corporal, Andrew Mackay; Counter-insurgency in Iraq 2004, 2006 and Afghanistan 2010, James Cowan. Section 5 The Wider Context: The political-military relationship on operations, Desmond Bowen; Command responsibility and the rule of law, Neil Brown; Campaigning – an air force perspective, Iain McNicoll; Achieving coherence in strategy, Nick Houghton; Conclusion, Hew Strachan; Bibliography; References; Glossary; Index.

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