Occupational Hazards Success and Failure in Military Occupation

Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. InOccupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six cas...

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Main Author: Edelstein, David M
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y Cornell University Press 2010
Edition:1
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Subjects:
Armed Forces
Bosnian occupation
Cross-national analysis
Foreign countries
Foreign occupation
Historical analysis
historical case studies
HISTORY
HISTORY / Military / Strategy
invasion
Military
MILITARY HISTORY
Military intervention
Military occupation
Political conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
Security (National & International)
Sovereignty
Strategic planning
Strategy
suppressed nationalism
territories
U.S. occupation of Iraq
United States
United States > Armed Forces > Foreign countries
MILITARY HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
territories
invasion
historical case studies
suppressed nationalism
U.S. occupation of Iraq
sovereignty
HISTORY
Bosnian occupation
ISBN:9780801476242, 0801476240, 0801446155, 9780801446153
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Summary:Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. InOccupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six cases since 1815 in which an outside power seized control of a territory where the occupying party had no long-term claim on sovereignty. In a book that has implications for present-day policy, he draws evidence from such historical cases as well as from four current occupations-Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq-where the outcome is not yet known. Occupation is difficult, in Edelstein's view, because ambitious goals require considerable time and resources, yet both the occupied population and the occupying power want occupation to end quickly and inexpensively; in drawn-out occupations, impatience grows and resources dwindle. This combination sabotages the occupying power's ability to accomplish two tasks: convince an occupied population to suppress its nationalist desires and sustain its own commitment to the occupation. Structural conditions and strategic choices play crucial roles in the success or failure of an occupation. In describing those factors, Edelstein prescribes a course of action for the future.
Bibliography:Originally published: 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:9780801476242
0801476240
0801446155
9780801446153
DOI:10.7591/9780801458569