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Page 1 - A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands...
Page 5 - Schumpeterian tradition, this study defines a twentieth-century political system as democratic to the extent that its most powerful collective decision makers are selected through fair, honest, and periodic elections in which candidates freely compete for votes and in which virtually all the adult population is eligible to vote.
Page xi - States have been to safeguard the lives of Americans, to defend democracy in Panama, to combat drug trafficking and to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal Treaty.
Page 11 - See Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Arthur K. Smith, Military Role and Rule: Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations (North Scituate, Mass . : Duxbury Press, 1974) , p~. 256. Welch has pointed out elsewhere that the "modern" organizational characteristics of the armed forces could readily break down after the army has captured power.
Page 1 - We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means.
Page ix - New York W. Scott Thompson Associate Professor of International Politics The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University Medford, Mass.
Page vii - THOMPSON is associate professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Page 13 - Kevin Buckley, Panama: The Whole Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), 14; Scranton, The Noriega Years, 13-14.
Page 67 - At the most general level, the first is the need to recognize postconflict situations as important and complex missions for the Department of Defense. This was clearly not discerned in Panama. The US did not have, at the time of Operation Just Cause, a policy for the period following the use of force.
Page 16 - I did not even spend five minutes on Blind Logic during my briefing as the incoming CINC. . . the least of my problems at the time was Blind Logic. . . We put together the campaign plan for Just Cause and probably did not spend enough time on the...
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Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World Karin von Hippel Limited preview - 2000 |