UID:
edocfu_9959233375702883
Format:
1 online resource (199 p.)
ISBN:
1-4438-5016-0
Content:
It is unquestionable that the warfare of various post-Cold War 'coalitions-of-the-willing' has drawn much attention over recent years. However, we may also notice that associations of nations fighting, or preparing to fight, for common causes are no novelty.Multi-national co-operation in fields as costly and as fateful as war depends on considerations and caveats concerning political purpose, risks, mutual trust, national wealth and pride, compatibility of military forces and a glut of intangible forces and effects characterising human interaction. Thus, this anthology includes scholarly resea
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Description based upon print version of record.
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; BIOGRAPHIES; INTRODUCTION; SHIFTING ALLIES, ENEMIES, AND INTERESTS; COALITION WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD; COALITION WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY, 1455-1503; BALANCING ACTS; ARMS RACES AND COOPERATION; COALITION WAR; COALITION WARFARE IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY NEW ENGLAND; 'INVITED TO SEE AMERICANS FIGHT'?; A WAR COALITION FAILS IN COALITION WARFARE; THE FRENCH BATTALION IN KOREA 1950-53
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-4841-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-76518-1
Language:
English
