Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

ISBN-13: 9781032508375 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

Opis

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations.

Recenzje

'Many wars are fought by alliances and coalitions, yet we have very little systematic study of how such groupings fight together on the battlefield. Cappella Zielinski and Grauer amass a terrific team of analysts to ask and answer important questions about how wartime cooperation works or fails on the ground.'

Stephen Saideman, Carleton University, Canada

'Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

is an impressive effort to consider the political and operational challenges of an increasingly common aspect of war-fighting. This theoretically and empirically rich collection of studies improves our understanding of modern warfare and sets an agenda for future research.'

Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University, USA

Spis treści

Part I: Introducing Battlefield Coalitions  1. Battlefield Coalitions: Preparation, Organisation, Execution  2. A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003  Part II: Preparation  3. Exercising Escalation: Do Multinational Military Exercises Provoke Interstate Security Crises?  4. When the Coalition Determines the Mission: NATO’s Detour in Libya  Part III: Organisation  5. Battlefield Coalitions as International Institutions: A Conceptual Framework  6. Command and Military Effectiveness in Rebel and Hybrid Battlefield Coalitions  7. Learning from Losing: How Defeat Shapes Coalition Dynamics in Wartime  Part IV: Execution  8. Regime Type, War Aims, and Coalition Member Effort in Combat  9. Why Rebels Rely on Terrorists: The Persistence of the Taliban--al-Qaeda Battlefield Coalition in Afghanistan  10. Coalitions and Wartime Diplomacy: Speaking with One Voice  Part V: Looking Ahead  11. Next Steps in the Study of Battlefield Coalitions

O autorze

Rosella Cappella Zielinski is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University, USA. She is the author of How States Pay for Wars (2016).

Ryan Grauer is an Associate Professor of International Affairs, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Commanding Military Power (2016).