Enforced Disarmament From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War

by Towle, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780198206361
• ISBN10: 0198206364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Enforced disarmament has often been ignored by historians, diplomats, and strategic analaysts. Yet the democracies have imposed some measure of disarmament on their enemies after every major victory since 1815. In many cases, forced disarmament was one of the most important, if not the mostimportant, of their war aims. The demilitarization of Germany and Japan, for example, was one of the most significant post-war measures agreed by the Soviet Union, Britain, and the USA in 1945, whilst the debate on the disarmament measures imposed on Iraq after the Gulf War continues to rage. Theefficacy and durability of enforced disarmament measures, and the resistance they are likely to encounter are thus issues of central strategic and political importance. Philip Towle examines the most important peace settlements from the time of Napoleon to Saddam Hussein, in the first major historyof this fascinating subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v	(4)
List of Tables	ix	(1)
Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(16)
1 Napoleonic Disarmament	17	(19)
2 The Demilitarization of French Fortresses in 1815	36	(15)
3 The Crimean War and the Demilitarization of the Black Sea	51	(15)
4 The Disarmament of Germany after the First World War	66	(27)
5 The Disarmament of Central Europe	93	(20)
6 The Disarmament of Vichy France	113	(16)
7 Allied War Aims and Disarmament in the Second World War and Afterwards	129	(23)
8 The Disarmament of Germany after the Second World War	152	(17)
9 The Disarmament of Japan after the Second World War	169	(14)
10 The Disarmament of Iraq 1991-1995	183	(19)
11 Enforced Disarmament without War? The Control of North Korean Nuclear Weapons	202	(18)
Conclusion	220	(13)
Appendix Selected Articles from Treaties Relating to Enforced Disarmament	233	(20)
Bibliography	253	(10)
Published Treaties and Documents	253	(1)
Autobiographies, Letters, Diaries, etc.	254	(2)
Secondary Sources	256	(7)
Index	263