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Military Culture And Inadvertent Escalation In World War Ii, Jeffrey W. Legro
Military Culture And Inadvertent Escalation In World War Ii, Jeffrey W. Legro
Political Science Faculty Publications
How can the use of "unthinkable" means of warfare be avoided? How can states successfully observe mutually desired limitations on "taboo" forms of combat? These questions are important because of concern that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and terrorism will spread and be used. The growing number of states--e.g., Israel, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Ukraine--that have such means of inflicting harm increases the likelihood that any future conflict will involve a desire for restrictions. Countries may pursue restraint because popular opinion vilifies certain weapons; because leaders calculate that escalation would damage their domestic and international political support; or because states …
Yemen: Human Rights In Yemen During And After The 1994 War, Sheila Carapico, Jermera Rone
Yemen: Human Rights In Yemen During And After The 1994 War, Sheila Carapico, Jermera Rone
Political Science Faculty Publications
During seventy days of conventional warfare between the government forces commanded by the Republic of Yemen Council President, General ’Ali ’Abdallah Salih, and the separatist southern army fighting in the name of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the government army won a military victory over the rebels and presided over the destruction of institutions and property of the former YSP-ruled People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. The terms of national unity between the two Yemens, never fully resolved in either the May 1990 accord or elections in April 1993, were thus settled on the battlefield in favor of Salih’s northern-dominated military …