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"Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Here, acclaimed scholar Mark Edele explores the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens - Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime - to reveal how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949"--

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms -- INTRODUCTION Bamboo, Tarpaulin and Mud -- 'We are Rohingya' -- Burma or Myanmar? -- 1 Rohingya Roots in Ancient Arakan -- First millennium Arakan -- Islam's arrival in Arakan -- Slavery and forced migration from Bengal -- 2 British Colonial Rule and Rohingya Identity -- Arakan's Rooinga community in 1795 -- Arakan's pre-colonial population -- Colonial Arakan -- 3 Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Stateless -- Independent Burma's citizenship regime -- Citizenship after the 1962 coup -- 1982 Citizenship Law -- 4 Myanmar's Failed Political Transition -- Political change in the Golden Land -- Words as Weapons -- This is what genocide looks like -- A politician not an icon -- A new insurgency -- A political problem with a political solution -- 5 Conflicting Historical Narratives -- 6 People Would Like to Demolish Our History -- 7 We are Rohingya -- A genocidal military campaign -- The Mother of humanity -- 8 Seeking Common Ground -- A renewed domestic focus -- The Tatmadaw's 'unfinished job' -- A broken system -- Future hopes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliographical Survey -- Notes -- Index.

A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency. Ranging from the forests of Central Africa to the deserts of Egypt, Sudan, and Somaliland, Neil Faulkner explores a fatal collision between two forms of oppression, one rooted in the ancient slave trade, the other in modern "coolie" capitalism. He reveals the complex interactions between anti-slavery humanitarianism, British hostility to embryonic Arab nationalism, "war on terror" moral panics, and Islamist revolt. Far from being an enduring remnant of the medieval past, or an essential expression of Muslim identity, Faulkner argues that "Holy War" was a reactionary response to the violence of modern imperialism

"This book examines the dynamics of infrastructure development in Northeast India especially Manipur from a socio-anthropological perspective. It looks at the pattern and distribution of infrastructure in the region to analyse the impact of education, roads and healthcare on the livelihoods, ecosystems, governance, and social futures of communities. The volume examines the infrastructure deficit in the conflict-ridden state of Manipur, focusing especially on electricity and roads. The author shows how problems arising from poor infrastructure are further complicated on account of corruption, insurgency, ethnic unrest and the politics of marginalization. Looking at the discourse around development in the Northeast, the volume also highlights the structural inequality in Manipur and other states. It further shows how infrastructure development can become a means for enabling trade, creating markets, diluting boundaries between varied ethnic groups and connecting people. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of development studies, economics, social anthropology, sociology and public policy; particularly those interested in India's Northeast."

Preface: is Africa post-colonial, neo-colonial, or post-colonized? -- Part I: Colonial rule, disengagement and the post-colonial state -- Introduction and conceptual discourse -- Colonial rule and the political architecture of the post-colonial state -- The grant of independence: imperialist conspiracy and the subversion of the post-colonial state -- Britain and the orchestration of pseudo-decolonization -- The role of France in the subversion of the post-colonial state -- Portugal: forced decolonization and its consequences -- The United States and the political and economic destabilization of Africa -- Part II: Regional examples of illusive post-colonial states -- Nigeria: the illusive post-colony -- Mali: from instability to insurgency and near obliteration -- Somalia: from state collapse to rogue state -- Algeria: descent into dictatorship -- Democratic republic of Congo: the colony that never became a state -- Mozambique: from revolutionary possibilities to contrived instability and state failure -- Contemporary nation-building, governance, and security challenges in Africa -- Conclusion: The illusive post-colonial state: what hope for survival?

Dr Porntip Rojanasunan is Thailand's most famous forensic scientist who is instantly recognisable by her punk-rock hairstyle and fashionable style. Nicknamed 'Dr Death' by the mass media, her findings often contradicted those of the Thai police, leading to numerous clashes between the two. She gained international attention for her work on identifying victims of the 2004 tsunami and has since raised public awareness of forensic science in Thailand. In her second book, Dr Porntip delves into some of her most well-known cases, including the grisly murder of medical student Jenjira Ployangunsri, the mysterious disappearance of Thai-Muslim human rights activist Khun Somchai Neelapajit, and the death of Malaysian political aide Teoh Beng Hock. She also discusses the role of forensic science in stabilising the violent insurgency in southern Thailand and reflects on the milestones in her life. Brutally honest, Dr Porntip never flinches from the gruesome possibilities as she unearths the truth despite obstacles at every turn

"The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics to explain sub-conventional operations and state-building in Afghanistan. War and State-Building in Modern Afghanistan provides an overall synthesis of British, Russian, American and NATO military activities in Afghanistan, which directly links past experiences to the current challenges. These timely essays are particularly relevant to contemporary debates about NATO's role in Afghanistan; do the war and state-building policies currently employed by NATO forces undercut or enhance a political solution? The essays in this volume introduce new historical perspectives on this debate, and will prove illuminating reading for students and scholars interested in military history, the history of warfare, international relations and comparative politics."--

"This is a military history of Armenian insurrection in the Ottoman Empire from 1890-1915 and the evolution of an Ottoman counterinsurgency response. It describes the growth and activities of the Armenian revolutionary committees in the context of empire-wide insurgency. At the beginning of the First World War, the Ottoman government believed that the Armenian revolutionary committees directly threatened the empire's military lines of communications which were weakened by the concentration of the Ottoman army on the front lines away from the empire's core areas. In 1915, the Ottoman government pursued a counterinsurgency campaign against the Armenian revolutionary committees from a position of constrained resources, resulting in a strategy of population relocation explicitly designed to separate insurgents from a base of support in a narrowly defined area. Using archival sources, the book establishes a comprehensive framework for understanding why the Ottoman state relocated the Armenian population of six Anatolian provinces in 1915 but did not relocate Armenians living elsewhere in the empire"--

Cover -- Praise -- Description -- Author Bio -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Wake-up Call -- Chapter 1: "What is You?" -- Chapter 2: Tribe of Five -- Chapter 3: The Power Factory -- Chapter 4: The Crucible -- Chapter 5: Tinkering with Death -- Chapter 6: The Blue Grip -- Chapter 7: The Tape -- Chapter 8: American Favela -- Chapter 9: Lady Lawyer -- Chapter 10: Epiphany -- Chapter 11: Good Friday -- Chapter 12: The Neiman Marxist -- Chapter 13: Bo Taylor and the Predator Transformation Business -- Chapter 14: The Advancement Project -- Chapter 15: Takedown -- Chapter 16: Infiltration -- Chapter 17: Rampart Reloaded -- Chapter 18: Chinatown -- Chapter 19: Stuck on Stupid -- Chapter 20: A Call to Action -- Chapter 21: California Insurgency -- Chapter 22: The Ghosts and the Glory -- Chapter 23: Bending the Wind -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Index -- Footnotes -- Chapter 1 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 9 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 11 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 18 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 21 -- Note 1 -- Chapter 22 -- Note 1 -- Note 2.

This book addresses an important but little-noticed phenomenon in the revolutionary world of military technology. Across a wide range of otherwise-unrelated weapons programs, the Pentagon is now pursuing arms that are deliberately crafted to be less powerful, less deadly, and less destructive than the systems they are designed to supplement or replace. This direction is historically anomalous; military forces generally pursue ever-bigger bangs, but the modern conditions of counter-insurgency warfare and military operations 'other than war' (such as peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance) demand a military capable of modulated force. By providing a capacity to intervene deftly yet effectively, the new generations of 'useable' weaponry should enable the U.S. military to accomplish its demanding missions in a manner consistent with legal obligations, public relations realities, and political constraints. Five case studies are provided, regarding precision-guided 'smart bombs', low-yield nuclear weapons, self-neutralizing anti-personnel land mines, directed-energy anti-satellite weapons, and non-lethal weapons

"This book is a collection of eight essays on politics and defense written over the past quarter of a century. What particularly unifies them is the distinction between the military and police (or punitive) uses of force and implication of each for preservation of moderate political practices and skill in the use of armed force. The various essays illustrate these conceptual points by examination of the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, U.S. nuclear strategy and current "RMA" and counter-insurgency doctrines, among others. The essays collectively advance the view that even in the age of nuclear weapons and "war amongst the people," the punitive threat and use of armed force is incapable of maintaining control over a relatively equal force. It can only be effective where there is massive superiority of the means of armed force concentrated in one political authority. Also included is an article on Clausewitz by a senior army officer (the author's father) that supports the conceptual and practical distinction between the military and police uses of armed force."--Jacket

Combat Modeling is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative analysis of combat. After a brief overview, authors Washburn and Kress present individual chapters on shooting without feedback, shooting with feedback, target defense, attrition models, game theory and wargames, search, unmanned aerial vehicles, and terror and insurgency. Three appendices provide a review of basic probability concepts, probability distributions, and Markov models, an introduction to optimization models, and a discussion of Monte-Carlo simulations. This is a book that can be used as a military manual, reference book, and textbook for military courses on this vital subject. The authors also provide a link for downloading Microsoft Excel workbooks they've developed and that are used throughout the book that include VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code for certain functions or commands. Drawing on their many years of experience at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Washburn and Kress have created a reference that will provide the tools and techniques for analysts involved in the underpinnings of combat decisions.

Intro -- AFGHANISTAN:NARCOTICS AND U.S. POLICY -- AFGHANISTAN: NARCOTICS AND U.S. POLICY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM ECONOMY -- CURRENT PRODUCTION STATISTICS -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Opium And Afghanistan's War Economy -- Taliban Era -- Post-Taliban Resurgence -- Actors in Afghanistan's Opium Economy -- Farmers -- Land Owners -- Traffickers -- NARCOTICS AND SECURITY -- NARCOTICS AND PROSPECTS FOR STATE FAILURE INAFGHANISTAN -- Anti-Government Elements and Popular Violence -- Corruption and Challenges to Afghan Democracy -- Opium Profits and Afghanistan's Economic Recovery -- NARCOTICS, INSURGENCY, AND TERRORISM -- Taliban and Al Qaeda Financiers -- CONSUMPTION MARKETS -- Trafficking to the United States -- Russia -- Western Europe -- REGIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS -- CENTRAL ASIA[57] -- Pakistan -- Iran -- THE INTERNATIONAL POLICY RESPONSE -- AFGHAN COUNTERNARCOTICS POLICIES,PROGRAMS, AND FORCES -- Bans, Prohibitions, and Policy Statements -- Institutions and Forces -- U.S. POLICY INITIATIVES: THE "FIVE-PILLAR" PLAN -- Public Information -- Judicial Reform -- Alternative Livelihood Development[75] -- Interdiction -- Eradication -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- BREAKING THE NARCOTICS-INSECURITY CYCLE -- BALANCING COUNTERTERRORISM ANDCOUNTERNARCOTICS -- DEFINING THE ROLE OF THE U.S. MILITARY -- REDEFINING ERADICATION -- AERIAL ERADICATION -- PENDING LEGISLATION AND COUNTERNARCOTICS FUNDING -- Counternarcotics Funding -- APPENDIX A -- CITED FIELD SURVEYS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Michael, K.; Kellen, D.: International intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian bi-level conflict zone : what went wrong and what can be done. - S. 18-39 Sens, A.: Peace-building and state-building in peacekeeping operations : options and challenges in the Palestinian case. - S. 40-69 Barak, E.: Peacekeeping forces and the emergence of a limited security regime in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : lessons from Israel's experience with Syria and Lebanon, 1974-2006. - S. 70-89 Garon, R.: Civil-military cooperation capability in the Middle-East : the counter-insurgency or governance model, which direction to take? - S. 90-111 Last, D.: Economic peace-building to support Israeli-Palestinian disengagement. - S. 112-133 Last, D.; Linden, R.; Murphy, C.: Policing Palestine : civilian police lessons for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. - S. 134-155 Sion, L.: The soldier at the checkpoint : relationships between peacekeepers and local populations. - S. 156-173 Salem, W.: Third-party involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : a quest for peace-building. - S. 174-191

Foreword / Mark Muller -- PART I: THE PAST. The Kurds -- The Treaty of Sèvres and the creation of Iraq -- The Kurds under Barzani -- The Anfal campaigns -- The First Gulf War : From uprising to democracy -- Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan -- The displacement of Kurds in Iraq -- Economic/humanitarian affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan -- The Kurds have no friends but the mountains -- US foreign policy toward Saddam : Pre-September 11 -- PART II: THE PRESENT. The road to war -- The Second Gulf War : 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' -- Current executive structure in Iraq -- Insurgency and sectarianism -- Current legal and human rights issues -- The question of autonomy -- The Anfal campaigns : The War Crimes Tribunal -- The continuing problem of internal displacement -- Current economic/humanitarian issues in Iraqi Kurdistan -- PART III: THE FUTURE. Self-determination and autonomy -- Kirkuk -- The tribunal and the victims -- The land question -- Addendum -- Appendix I. Articles of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres relating to Kurdistan -- Appendix II: The Kurdistan regional government provisional constitution for the Federal Republic of Iraq -- Appendix III: UN guiding principles for internal displacement