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Free Download UN Peacekeeping: Myth and Reality By Andrzej Sitkowski
2006 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0275992144 | PDF | 1 MB
In this book, Andrzej Sitkowski confronts two basic peacekeeping myths. First, the belief that peacekeeping is separate from peace enforcement blurs this difference and undermines the viability of peacekeeping operations. Secondly, it is widely believed that the peacekeepers are allowed to apply force only in self-defense and lack the authorization to use it in defending UN Security Councils mandates. Solidly anchored in official primary sources originating from the UN, national governments, parliamentary inquiries (Dutch, French, and Belgian) and from the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, this book integrates the most recent recommendations related to peacekeeping. It exposes how the UN peacekeeping syndrome of soldiers safety first crept into the NATO's strategy and compromises its missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan.The peacekeeping system has largely outlived its usefulness and is bound to fail when applied to currently predominant violent and messy conflagrations. Lacking radical changes in that system, the UN should disarm, restricting the peacekeeping to military observers' missions and to subcontracting other operations out to military alliances and regional organizations. The widely lamented massacres of innocent civilians under UN Peacekeeper eyes in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and the Congo influenced neither the UN's approach nor the analysis of the methods. In this book, Andrzej Sitkowski confronts two basic peacekeeping myths. First, the belief that peacekeeping is distinct from peace enforcement blurs this distinction and undermines the viability of peacekeeping operations. In fact, it is the UN's definition of self-defense, which is understood to include actions of troops against forceful obstructions to discharging their mandates, that confuses the issue. Nevertheless, that distinction remains a cornerstone of the UN doctrine. Secondly, it is widely believed that the peacekeepers are allowed to apply force only in self-defense and lack the authorization to use it in defending UN Security Councils mandates. This myth persists, even in cases when the UN Security Council undertakes explicit authorization to enforce specific goals of the mandate.Sitkowski offers a critical re-appraisal of the fundamental principles of peacekeeping, including both the largest successes (Namibia) and worst disasters (Rwanda). Drawing heavily on personal accounts, the book is solidly anchored in official primary sources originating from the UN, national governments, parliamentary inquiries (Dutch, French and Belgian) and from the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. It integrates the most recent recommendations related to peacekeeping originating from High-Level Panels and endorsed by Kofi Annan. Finally it exposes how the UN peacekeeping syndrome of soldiers safety first crept into the NATO's strategy and compromises its missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Free Download Norman Friedman - U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History
Naval Institute Press | 1994 | ISBN: 1557502609 | English | 294 pages | PDF | 277.04 MB
Like Friedman's other books on US warship design, his description of the play between evolving doctrine, organizational imperatives and technical issues to arrive at each class of submarine gives the reader insight not just in what a ship became but also why a ship became. Friedman's book hits just the right level of technical detail. This is not a buff book. It is a serious effort to document the design evolution of (mostly) nuclear submarines.

Free Download Norman Friedman - U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
Naval Institute Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0870217151 | English | 480 pages | PDF | 274.5 MB
This is a great book for those who are interested in the technical information about the US Navy battleships. In great detail the book covers the evolution of the battleships from the early monitors of the post Civil War period to the cancelled Montana Class during WWII. Technical information regarding design, design proposals, dimensions, types of guns/calibers, machinery, armor, internal hull arraignment, etc. are included.

Free Download David H. Grover - U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II
Naval Institute Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0870217666 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 218.84 MB
This is the definitive reference to the ships operated by the U.S. Army during the Second World War. In tonnage the Army actually operated a fleet larger than the U.S. Navy, though almost all were non-combat vessels. The book is divided into major categories such as large ocean going transports, tugs, mine craft, right down to the very mixed bag of "launches and small craft" and barges. Tables deal with individual ships, though few are mentioned in the main text introductions to those tables. There is a ship name index for craft that were named. Most below the larger vessels were only numbered. It is quite common, even among people that should know better, to term almost every U.S. vessel "USS" that is properly used only for ships of the U.S. Navy while in commission. One will find here the large vessels properly designated U. S. Army Transport (U.S.A.T.) and the smaller, numbered vessels properly designated "U.S. Army (alpha designation) xxx (number designation) as in U.S.Army FS-391 that, after transfer to Navy in 1948 became the USS HEWELL (AKL-14) and is best known as the outdoor set of the film MISTER ROBERTS-a story based on a book based on life aboard an Army ship.

Free Download Lawrence Paterson - U-boat Combat Missions: The Pursuers & the Pursued - First-hand Accounts of U-boat Life and Operations
Chatham Publishing | 2007 | ISBN: 1861763204 | English | 153 pages | PDF | 122.8 MB
This is the first fully illustrated book about U-boats to combine first-class commissioned photographs and artwork with narrative eyewitness accounts by crewman so enabling the reader to acquire as accurate and redolent a picture of life in the U-boat arm as is possible within the covers of a book. The author, a well-known U-boat historian, has pieced together the technical details of the roles of individual crew members with extensive first-hand reports, many drawn from previously unpublished oral histories. These experiences - from cooks to engineers and from young recruits to battle-hardened commanders - build up into a powerful picture of life undersea. But the book is not just about the experience on the front line; U-boat men had a reputation for making the most of time spent ashore, between missions, and a vivid portrayal of life back at the home bases is also drawn. The book breaks new ground not just for the inclusion of new oral histories, but also for the presentation of the equipment and interiors of the U-boats using specially-commissioned new photography. There are an ever-increasing number of websites and forums dedicated to the U-boat war that are testament to the continuing fascination with this subject and this book is sure to satisfy a new generation of enthusiast looking for the very best in archival research and presentation.

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