Tag: Armed

Free Download The Cosmopolitan Military: Armed Forces and Human Security in the 21st Century By Jonathan Gilmore
2015 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 113703226X | PDF | 1 MB
What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? The Cosmopolitan Military examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security. It poses the question of whether we might be seeing the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community, rather than the nation state, and examines the role played by overseas ethical commitments in shaping recent Western defence and security policy. Although national militaries have the traditional responsibility of defending the state and its citizens, operations to protect vulnerable non-citizens have now become an important additional role in the post-Cold War world. This path-breaking study provides an incisive analysis of peacekeeping, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), military operations during the War on Terror, and the rise of human security thinking. Drawing upon cosmopolitan ethical approaches, it formulates a new mode of military practice, one that might help militaries to escape the constraints of warfighting and better embrace responsibilities to a wider community of humankind.

Free Download Will Jamison Wright, "Norm Clusters of Non-State Armed Groups: Mapping and Understanding the Limits of Warfare as Understood by Non-State Arme"
English | ISBN: 303145913X | 2023 | 230 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The proliferation of non-state armed groups and non-international armed conflicts since the end of the Second World War has challenged the legal frameworks which govern conduct in armed conflict. While aspects of international humanitarian law apply to such conflicts, international law can only go part of the way to explaining behaviour by armed groups. This book seeks to refocus discussion on the limits to armed conflict in such settings by examining the norms that underpin international humanitarian law as espoused by these armed groups to give a clearer picture as to the collectively constructed appropriateness of certain behaviours in or limits to warfare. The specific research question is "What are the norms of armed conflict as identified by non-state armed groups?" Using Winston’s norm cluster model, this study seeks to examine and map the ideations and behavioural prescriptions that constitute the armed conflict norm cluster as defined by non-state armed groups. To do this, it utilises a qualitative content analysis of documents from non-state armed groups coded to identify the different elements of this norm cluster as well as the frequency, pervasiveness, and connections between these elements. The findings showed that, while international humanitarian law is universal, these norms limiting armed conflict are not, with no norm being seen across all contexts examined. Core norms of international humanitarian law, especially those supported by norm entrepreneurs, were seen to be the focus of sub-clusters and the emergence of new parts of the norm cluster could be observed over time. The findings suggest that further work with the conceptualisation of limits to armed conflict as norms could be useful in improving the embeddedness of norms amongst non-state armed groups and could be useful in reconceptualising limits to armed conflict in cases where broadly accepted norms face growing contestation.

Free Download Katherine Hirschfeld, "New Wars and Old Plagues: Armed Conflict, Environmental Change and Resurgent Malaria in the Southern Caucasus"
English | ISBN: 3031311426 | 2023 | 133 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of "New Wars" to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region’s largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s.

Free Download Dave Windle, Martin Bowman – British Aerospace Hawk: Armed Light Attack and Multi-Combat Fighter Trainer
Pen & Sword | 2010 | ISBN: 1848842368 | English | 96 pages | PDF | 77.45 MB
For many years the world’s finest aerobatic team, the RAF’s Red Arrows, have thrilled millions with their demonstrations of this fine aircraft’s agility and maneuverability. Black Hawks can also be seen in the valleys of Wales, flying ground-hugging flight paths along the valleys. These are the aircraft used to teach flying perfection to new generations of fighter and ground-attack pilots. The aircraft has earned millions of pounds, being exported to many overseas countries.

Free Download Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories
by John Sunday Ojo, Folahanmi Aina
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031454448 | 317 Pages | True PDF | 6.12 MB

Free Download John Sunday Ojo, "Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories"
English | ISBN: 3031454448 | 2024 | 330 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Nigeria, armed banditry has emerged as a contemporary threat to national security. Commentators and scholars have repeatedly pointed to overlapping foci such as herders-farmers’ conflicts, warlordism, ungoverned spaces, transnational criminal networks, and the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) from Libya as dynamics influencing the current security dilemma in Nigeria. The emergence of armed banditry has triggered the prevalence of everyday killings, kidnapping for ransom, property destruction, and cattle rustling. However, the group’s origin remains obscure, while its objectives and organizational structure are fuzzy.

Free Download Armed Struggle: The History Of The Ira By Richard English
2003 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 1405001089 | PDF | 89 MB
A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.’An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster,The Times’An outstanding new book on the IRA … a calm, rational but in the end devastating deconstruction of the IRA’ Henry McDonald,Observer’Superb … the first full history of the IRA and the best overall account of the organization. English writes to the highest scholarly standards … Moreover, he writes with the common reader in mind: he has crafted a fine balance of detail and analysis and his prose is clear, fresh and jargon-free … sets a new standard for debate on republicanism’ Peter Hart,Irish Times’The one book I recommend for anyone trying to understand the craziness and complexity of the Northern Ireland tragedy.’ Frank McCourt, author ofAngela’s Ashes

Free Download Emmanuel Wekem Kotia, "Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations "
English | ISBN: 0739196510 | 2016 | 262 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Sophie Haspeslagh, "Proscribing peace: How listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations "
English | ISBN: 1526157594 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With rare access to actors during the Colombian negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army (FARC), Sophie Haspeslagh shows how proscription makes negotiations harder and more prolonged.

Free Download Kevin R. Davis, "Citizen’s Guide to Armed Defense"
English | ISBN: 1440243638 | 2015 | 295 pages | AZW3 | 14 MB
Millions of people are purchasing firearms for personal safety and home protection, but owning a firearm is only one part of the equation.