Military Occupations in the Age of Self-Determination

by Gannon, James

• ISBN13: 9780313353826
• ISBN10: 0313353824
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Praeger Security Intl

Summary

This book offers a perspective decidedly different from that of the Bush Administration and its neoconservative supporters. Since the United Nations embraced the right of national self-determination in 1945, the historical odds have been unfavorable to great powers that impose military occupations on smaller nations. This point is bolstered by the evidence from history, and is particularly pertinent to the American occupation of Iraq, where a robust insurgency has delayed projected successes by the administration and wartime planners. Drawing on historical antecedents to the occupation of Iraq, Gannon examines events such as the British Struggles in Palestine, French enterprises in Algeria, the Soviet debacle in Afghanistan, and other instances in which occupying powers to demonstrate the struggles and failures of occupying powers in the face of determined insurgencies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Perils of Occupation	p. 1
Iraq: The Height of Folly	p. 10
Zionism: Violent Return Home	p. 28
Algeria: Savagery Unchained	p. 44
Malaya and Kenya: Dying Gasps of Empire	p. 58
Vietnam: Selective Terrorism	p. 65
Lebanon: Double Defeat of the West	p. 83
Palestine: Occupation and Intifadas	p. 101
Afghanistan: The Soviet Vietnam	p. 129
Iraq: A Thousand Cuts	p. 143
Afterword: The Limits of Power	p. 161
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 199
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