Military Assistance
An Operational Perspective
Published on 30. October 1999
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-313-30729-4 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides a theoretical and historical examination of the relationship between provision of military assistance and success in achieving donor aims. Eight case studies, which include the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Vietnam War, are examined to assess four prominent features of the donor-recipient relationship: the convergence of donor and recipient aims; donor control; commitment of donor military forces; and coherence of donor policies and strategies. As an essential part of the expanding body of multidisciplinary international scholarship, this book links history and theory to policy and narrows the gap between economics, political science, and military strategy.
Each chapter refines the relevant features of the observed donor-recipient relationships into a pattern for comparison with other episodes. The final chapter collects the observations, compares them, and develops a set of uniformities that suggest a prototypical, successful donor-recipient relationship, suitable for direct application as a policy paradigm or for theoretical investigation. Mott suggests that both donor and recipient governments can use military assistance as a deliberate instrument of national policy and military strategy to achieve national aims.
Each chapter refines the relevant features of the observed donor-recipient relationships into a pattern for comparison with other episodes. The final chapter collects the observations, compares them, and develops a set of uniformities that suggest a prototypical, successful donor-recipient relationship, suitable for direct application as a policy paradigm or for theoretical investigation. Mott suggests that both donor and recipient governments can use military assistance as a deliberate instrument of national policy and military strategy to achieve national aims.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-30729-4 (9780313307294)
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WILLIAM H. MOTT IV has, in a 30 year career in the U.S. Army, observed, analyzed, and managed the behaviors of governments under stress and in control in both Europe and Asia./e While teaching at the British Royal Military College of Science and consulting for international business, he studied and wrote extensively on Defense Industrial Collaboration. In his continuing research at Tufts University, he is focusing on the political-economic relationships between international conflict, economic growth, military intervention, and foreign direct investment.
Content
Introduction French Assistance to the United States During the War of American Independence Britain and the Napoleonic Wars The China Lesson America's Ordeal in Vietnam The First Indochina War Vietnam--The Interwar Years The Second Indochina War The Uniformities Appendix A: On Law-Like Regularities Appendix B: British Subsidy Payments 1793-1815 Appendix C: Amounts of U.S. Aid to Vietnam Appendix D: U.S. Defense Support and Supporting Assistance to Vietnam Appendix E: Substitutability Appendix F: The China Lesson, the Korea Lesson, the Europe Lesson Appendix G: National Security Council and Early Policy