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This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement

This unique and fascinating book takes a critical look at aspects of the prevalent entrepreneurship discourse and presents several substantive new theories, prescribing what should be abandoned (demobilization) and what should be adopted or given a more central position (mobilization).

1. Once a soldier, always a soldier? : introduction -- 2. Remarginalization, remobilizers and relationships : analytical framework -- 3. Cases, concepts and questions : research design -- 4. The Republic of Congo -- 5. Sierra Leone -- 6. Probing the cases : comparative analysis -- 7. Wrapping it all up : conclusions.

The withdrawal of United States combat troops on August 31 falls during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting and prayer; a timetable better suited to the American political cycle than to conditions in Iraq. Ramadan usually sees a spike in violence as religious fervour combines with heat and hunger. But delaying the withdrawal another year would mean the Iraq war surpassing the Vietnam war in length. The timing could have been better for Iraq, but withdrawal is overdue for the US. Having never been justified in the first place -- legally, strategically, or defensively -- it is time to end military engagement in Iraq. Adapted from the source document.

Analyzes decline of the armed forces and defense industry; argues that effective reform is the only way to strengthen civil-military relations, guarantee economic development, and avert threat to international security that a collapse of the military-industrial complex would cause; since 1993.