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Setear, John K. A political-military game of protracted conventional war in Europe. Rand, 1990.

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Jayatilleka, Dayan. Sri Lanka: The travails of a democracy, unfinished war, protracted crisis. International Centre for Ethnic Studies in association with Vikas Pub. House, 1995.

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Cubbison, Douglas. Uganda, the protracted people's war: Through the eyes of an insurgent. Combat Studies Institute Press, 2009.

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P, Magyar K., Danopoulos Constantine P, and Air University (U.S.). Press., eds. Prolonged wars: A post-nuclear challenge. Air University Press, 1994.

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Lippold, Kirk S. U.S. and Soviet strategic command and control: Implications for a protracted nuclear war. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989.

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Cochran, Shawn T. War termination as a civil-military bargain: Soldiers, statesmen, and the politics of protracted armed conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Holmberg, Björn. Passing the open windows: A quantitative and qualitative approach to immediate military balance and escalation of protracted conflicts. Uppsala University, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, 1998.

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Maybury, Rick. World War II: The rest of the story and how it affects you today, 1930 to September 11, 2001. Bluestocking Press, 2002.

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Maybury, Rick. World War II: The rest of the story and how it affects you today, 1930 to September 11, 2001. Bluestocking Press, 2003.

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Alexander, De Waal, ed. Who fights? who cares?: War and humanitarian action in Africa. Africa World Press, 2000.

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Roberts, Edward. My protracted correpondence with the Foreign Office regarding the internment of merchant seamen in France and Germany during World War II. s.n., 1998.

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Mao, Zedong. On Protracted War. University Press of the Pacific, 2001.

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Zedong, Mao. On the Protracted War. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.

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Zedong, Mao. On the Protracted War. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.

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Guerra Prolongada/Protracted War. Canadian Scholars Press, 1987.

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Polemics on Protracted People's War. Independently published, 2023.

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Zedong, Mao. On Protracted War (Graphyco Editions). Independently Published, 2020.

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Uganda, the protracted people's war: Through the eyes of an insurgent. Combat Studies Institute Press, 2009.

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Sri Lanka: The travails of a democracy : unfinished war, protracted crisis. International Centre for Ethnic Studies., 1998.

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Zedong, Mao. Mao on Warfare: On Guerrilla Warfare, On Protracted War, and Other Martial Writings. CN Times Beijing Media Time United Publishing Company Limited, 2013.

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Prolonged wars: A post-nuclear challenge. Air University Press, 1994.

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Cochran, Shawn T. War Termination As a Civil-Military Bargain: Soldiers, Statesmen, and the Politics of Protracted Armed Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Jayatilleka, Dayan. Sri Lanka: The Travails of a Democracy, Unfinished War, Protracted Crisis (ICES Sri Lanka studies series). 2nd ed. Vikas Pub, 1998.

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Willbanks, James H., ed. Vietnam War. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216032243.

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The Vietnam War was one of America's longest, bloodiest, and most controversial wars. This volume examines the complexities of this protracted conflict and explains why the lessons learned in Vietnam are still highly relevant today. Vietnam War: The Essential Reference Guide provides a compendium of the key people, places, organizations, treaties, and events that make up the history of the war, explaining its causes, how it was conducted, and its far-reaching consequences. Written by recognized authorities, this ready-reference volume provides essential information all in one place and includes a comprehensive list of additional sources for further study. The work presents a detailed chronology that outlines the numerous battles and campaigns throughout the war, such as the Tet Offensive, the Battle of Hamburger Hill, Operation Rolling Thunder, and the Battle of Hue. Biographies on Lyndon Johnson, William Westmoreland, Robert McNamara, Ngo Dinh Diem, and other major political figures and military leaders provide insight into the individuals who played key roles in the conflict, while primary source documents such as President Nixon's speech on Vietnamization provide invaluable historical context.
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Lissak, Moshe. Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment: The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Lissak, Moshe. Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment: The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Lissak, Moshe. Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment: The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Lissak, Moshe. Israeli Society and Its Defense Establishment: The Social and Political Impact of a Protracted Violent Conflict. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Pechatnov, Vladimir O. Soviet-American Relations Through the Cold War. Edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199236961.013.0007.

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This chapter analyzes the dynamics of the United States–Soviet Union relations during the Cold War. It describes the evolution of the “strategic codes” on both sides, and how they perceived the nature and prospects of the conflict. The chapter suggests that this relationship can be divided into a number of distinct stages. These include the assessment of the nature and possible prospects of the protracted conflict in 1945–1953, the growing competitiveness of the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, the slackening of Soviet economic growth in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and the economic crisis and economic stagnation of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s to 1991.
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A world of nations: The international order since 1945. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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A world of nations: The international order since 1945. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Roessler, Philip, and Harry Verhoeven. Comrades Go to War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611354.003.0012.

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This chapter traces the trajectory from the unbearable no-man’s-land of waiting for the inevitable to the outbreak of conflict on August 2, 1998, and the ensuing first weeks of fighting. The failure of Joseph Kabila to mediate between his father and James Kabarebe cleared the last obstacle for the bellicose thrust on both sides to take full force. It details how both Kabila and Kagame sought to obtain the support of the regional bellwether, the MPLA, which fretted over the likelihood of an imminent resumption of the Angolan civil conflict with UNITA. Frantic shuttle diplomacy between Kinshasa, Kigali and Luanda underlined how much the unraveling of the domestic post-liberation order was intimately connected to the reconfiguration of regional order. While Kabarebe launched, his audacious air drop in Bas and counted on his intelligence officials to acquire Angola’s green light for Rwanda's Blitzkrieg, desperate Kabila emissaries wrote Luanda a blank check. The MPLA waivered for a long time, ultimately sending its mechanized brigades and air force to the rescue of the Mzee. The intervention transformed the initial lightning assault into a protracted war and marked the definitive rupture in the Pan-Africanist coalition that had assembled to overthrow Mobutu.
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Giustozzi, Antonio. The Taliban at War. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190092399.001.0001.

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How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban’s external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affected the Taliban’s military campaigns and internal politics. Secondly, this is the first full-length study of the Taliban to acknowledge and discuss in detail the movement’s polycentric character. Here not only the Quetta Shura, but also the Haqqani Network and the Taliban’s other centers of power, are afforded the attention they deserve. The Taliban at War is based on extensive field research, including hundreds of interviews with Taliban members at all levels of the organization, community elders in Taliban-controlled areas, and other sources. It covers the Taliban insurgency from its first manifestations in 2002 up to the end of 2015. The five-month Battle of Kunduz epitomized the ongoing transition of the Taliban from an insurgent group to a more conventional military force, intent on fighting a protracted civil war. In this latest book, renowned Afghanistan expert Antonio Giustozzi rounds off his twenty years of studying the Taliban with an authoritative sitrep detailing the evolution of its formidable military machine.
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Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. Muslim Communism? The Turkish War of Independence. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691175829.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on the Turkish War of Independence. Fighting between 1919 and 1922 on two principal fronts—against the British-backed Greeks in the West and the unsupported Armenians in the East—the nationalists, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, exploited the protracted conflict to solidify their hold on power. Mustafa Kemal emerged as one of the principal leaders of the popular struggle against partition. Nevertheless, when he returned to Istanbul later that month, he joined public opinion in expressing the hope that “the British would respect the freedom of our nation and the independence of our state” and that “there would not be a more benevolent friend of the Ottomans than the British.” Such hopes notwithstanding, Mustafa Kemal grasped more quickly than most of his colleagues that Allied diplomacy was pursuing objectives wholly at odds with those of the burgeoning Turkish nationalist movement.
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Keylor, William R. A World of Nations: The International Order since 1945. Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.

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Keylor, William R. A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945. Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.

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Waszink, Jan, ed. Hugo Grotius, Annals of the War in the Low Countries. Leuven University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664853.

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The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a wayward view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius chose the worldview and the prose style of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus as his model. His commissioners, however – the States of Holland – did not publish the work when it was finished in 1612; it appeared in print posthumously in 1657. This is the first edition of Grotius' then-influential and well-known Annals of the Dutch Revolt since its initial publication. It presents a critical edition of the Latin text, a fresh modern English translation, and an introduction which covers all aspects of the work, from its conception to its modern reception, underlining the importance of reason of state for Grotius' thought in general.
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Sorenson, David S. Syria in Ruins. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216021971.

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Syria is home to one of the most brutal and protracted civil wars in history, posing a threat to global stability and enabling the expansion of the Islamic State (sometimes called "ISIS"). This in-depth analysis reveals the beginning, present state, and future of this conflict. The current crises involving ISIS have attracted worldwide attention to the complex politics and cultural panorama of the Middle East, including Syria. Political analyst and author David S. Sorenson discusses the ongoing civil war in Syria from its origins, to its key players, and to its propagation into neighboring countries. In the process, the work delves into Syria's demographics, history, economy, and security to illustrate the civil war's impact on the Middle East and the world. This in-depth analysis covers the Assad regime, ISIS's role in the region, possible outcomes of the conflict, and security implications for the country. Starting with a history of Syria, the work identifies the factors that have contributed to the onset and continuation of the civil war, moves on to an analysis of the outbreak and growth of the war, and points out key factors that fueled its intensity. A look at the Islamic State considers the internationalization of the Syrian civil war, explaining how the addition of many parties outside of Syria have made the war more violent and protracted. The book concludes by considering alternative endings for the conflict and addressing the role of world powers in the conflict and its outcome. Syria is home to one of the most brutal and protracted civil wars in history, posing a threat to global stability and enabling the expansion of the Islamic State (sometimes called "ISIS"). This in-depth analysis reveals the beginning, present state, and future of this conflict. The current crises involving ISIS have attracted worldwide attention to the complex politics and cultural panorama of the Middle East, including Syria. Political analyst and author David S. Sorenson discusses the ongoing civil war in Syria from its origins, to its key players, and to its propagation into neighboring countries. In the process, the work delves into Syria's demographics, history, economy, and security to illustrate the civil war's impact on the Middle East and the world. This in-depth analysis covers the Assad regime, ISIS's role in the region, possible outcomes of the conflict, and security implications for the country. Starting with a history of Syria, the work identifies the factors that have contributed to the onset and continuation of the civil war, moves on to an analysis of the outbreak and growth of the war, and points out key factors that fueled its intensity. A look at the Islamic State considers the internationalization of the Syrian civil war, explaining how the addition of many parties outside of Syria have made the war more violent and protracted. The book concludes by considering alternative endings for the conflict and addressing the role of world powers in the conflict and its outcome.
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Yarrow, Simon. 4. Early modern sainthood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199676514.003.0004.

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‘Early modern sainthood’ describes the impact of the 16th-century Reformation on the image of the Christian saint. The Reformation, triggered by Augustinian friar Martin Luther, was a struggle for the highest stakes between fierce adversaries over the relationship between church and state, the authority and mission of the Church, the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith, and the conscience of every soul in Christendom. It spurred immense intellectual creativity, fuelled iconoclasm and bitter polemic, and brought protracted war and martyrdom. It ultimately divided Europe into the Catholic states of southern Europe and those states of northern Europe whose princes embraced various kinds of Protestantism.
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Lande, Jonathan. Freedom Soldiers. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531754.001.0001.

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Abstract Freedom Soldiers follows the lives of once-enslaved soldiers as they fought for the US Army during the US Civil War and decamped in their ongoing struggle to become free. Undoing the many vestiges of slavery was a protracted process, which unfolded amid a bloody war. Thousands on this rocky road of liberation entered the US Army, where the process of emancipation continued. To engage the process and influence their evolving bonds with the US government, the enlisted freedom seekers examined in Freedom Soldiers used their feet and words to fashion their lives after slavery. They took self-granted breaks—or “leaves of freedom.” Many then defended their actions within the military justice system. These men, deemed deserters by the US Army, saw mobility as a crucial tool for shaping their lives after slavery. If tried and incarcerated for deserting, they defended their actions. They saw their unauthorized departures as legitimate means of redressing unacceptable restraints in the army. Freedom Soldiers reveals that the war for freedom was not only fought on battlefields. It was also fought in US Army camps, courts, and prisons.
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Lee, Wayne E., Anthony E. Carlson, David L. Preston, and David Silbey. The Other Face of Battle. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190920647.001.0001.

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The Other Face of Battle plunges into the jarring and violent experience of America’s “other” wars: the often irregular, unconventional, and intercultural wars that have dominated the American military experience. The national narrative is dominated by the so-called “big wars,” but the other wars are both more common and equally critical to understanding American military history. American wars with enemies from different cultures, fighting with different tactics, have generated shocking battlefield defeats, unanticipated insurgencies, and strategic stalemate. In 1755, George Washington and other Anglo-American soldiers on an expedition to the Ohio Country were catastrophically defeated by French and Indian irregulars at the Monongahela, with resounding consequences for how Americans thought about themselves in combat over the next several generations. In 1898, U.S. troops at the Battle of Manila confronted Filipinos who had just fought and won a revolution against the Spanish—a battle that was but the opening round of a protracted U.S.-Filipino conflict sparked by American occupation and annexation. The unexpected war that followed was both conventional and irregular, an omen for America’s 20th-century wars. In 2010, U.S. soldiers and Afghan allies launched an extraordinarily complex, interservice attack on the village of Makuan in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The battle symbolized the Americans’ struggle to find and pin down the elusive Taliban enemy, despite careful planning, immense firepower, and nine years of experience fighting an insurgency.
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Wheeldon, Marianne. The Construction of Reputation and the Case of Debussy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190631222.003.0001.

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This chapter considers some of the general mechanisms by which artistic figures are consecrated and weighs their relative contribution to the construction of Debussy’s reputation. Drawing on Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang’s analysis of the survival of reputation in the fine arts, four areas emerge that would seem to be particularly relevant to Debussy: (1) the initiatives undertaken by the composer to establish his own legacy; (2) the posthumous reception of the corpus of works left behind; (3) the actions of heirs and family members on behalf of the deceased: and (4) the efforts of the composer’s close friends and collaborators. Yet, as Chapter 1 demonstrates, the first two were rendered less effective because of the particularities of Debussy’s case—namely, his protracted illness and his death during the First World War.
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Iuzzolino, Giovanni, Guido Pellegrini, and Gianfranco Viesti. Regional Convergence. Edited by Gianni Toniolo. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936694.013.0020.

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In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on whether they are gauged by longitude or by latitude. The disparities between western and eastern regions first widened and then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the main open problem in the national history of Italy. This chapter focuses on the underlying causes of the turning points in regional disparities since national unification in 1861. The first came in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with the industrialization of the so-called "industrial triangle". This was followed by the "failed new turn" during the interwar years: not only were the beginnings of convergence blocked, but the North-South gap, until then still natural, inevitably, was transformed into a fracture of exceptional dimensions. The second turning point, in the twenty years after the World War, produced the first substantial, lasting convergence between southern and northern Italy, powered by rising productivity and structural change in the South. The last turning point was in the mid-1970s, when convergence was abruptly halted and a protracted period of immobility in the disparity began.
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Bakia, Violeta Ferati. European Union as a Mediator in Post-Conflict Western Balkans. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978734661.

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Attempting to pacify the emergent wars in the 1990s, the European Union mediation could not stop the vast destruction and prevent genocide from taking place right next door to the EU, the world’s biggest peace project. In the 21st century, the Western Balkans region has again become a subject of testing the EU’s “new” foreign policy instrument – mediation. This time, the EU assumed the role of a post-conflict mediator aiming to sustainably resolve the (intractable) conflicts in the post-war setting of the region. While its first mediations in the former Yugoslavia were unsuccessful, the EU's recent mediation attempts in the post-violent stage of the Balkans’ conflicts have resulted in varied outcomes. Introducing a new model, this book explains the varying effectiveness of EU mediation in post-conflict and analyses the determining conditions of the EU mediation efficiency in post-conflict settings. The book is among the few publications that shed light on EU mediation utilized as an instrument of conflict resolution that aims to solve protracted conflicts in post-conflict settings.
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Eriksson Baaz, Maria, and Maria Stern. Knowing Masculinities in Armed Conflict? Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.42.

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Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with members of the Congolese military, this chapter explores conceptions of militarized masculinity, particularly in the context of sexual violence perpetrated by Congolese government forces during the protracted conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The chapter opens with a review of the feminist research regarding the interconnectedness of gender, militarization, and war, comparing these theories with the conceptions of masculinity articulated by Congolese soldiers. While portions of the interviews were consistent with prevailing research framings, the chapter documents various points of dissonance. These include differences in the articulation of what characteristics make one a “good soldier”; the recurring articulations of vulnerability and failure; and a perception of rape as the action of an emasculated man. The chapter concludes with the authors’ reflection on their experience carrying out their research and the ethics of research in a post-colonial context.
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McNally, Michael. Hürtgen Forest 1944 (1). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472862327.

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The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II. In September 1944, the Allied High Command continued to press eastwards towards the Rhine, the thrust being spearheaded by Courtney Hodges' US First Army, whose proposed line of advance was through a wooded area south of Aachen, known locally as the Hürtgenwald – or Hürtgen Forest. On the opposing side, the German forces under the overall command of Walter Model would do all they could to defend the Reich, but also maintain a staging post for the forthcoming Battle of the Bulge. Fought in brutal terrain – heavily wooded, riven with razor sharp ridgelines and precipitous cliffs, and with a woefully inadequate road network – and in all elements, the Battle of Hürtgen Forest was a grinding and protracted encounter where gains were measured in feet and yards and not miles. This study explores the first phase of this bloody battle, including the ‘Aachen Question’ facing the Allies. Featuring stunning artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, and period images, this book provides a gripping narrative of the infamous clash in the Hürtgen Forest, concluding with an assessment of the situation in November 1944, and the preparations for the next phase of operations.
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Enden, Mark van der. Cynoscephalae 197 BC. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472865410.

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A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes. The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the Roman Republic rising in its place as the pre-eminent power in the Greek East. At Cynoscephalae, the proud Macedonian kingdom of Antigonid monarch Philip V was humbled, its army shattered. Yet the battle, and campaign leading up to it, was hard fought and protracted. Philip V had defied Rome and its allies in the First Macedonian War and was poised to do so again, with the pike phalanx continuing to be a daunting opponent for the Roman legionaries. Here, classical archaeologist Dr Mark van der Enden, drawing on primary sources and recent scholarship, explores the battle not as an isolated event but as the culmination of three years of intensive campaigning; the battle of the Aous gorge (198 BC) is also considered. The opposing armies, their weaponry, organization, tactics and commanders, are covered in detail and revealed in battlescene artworks and photos of material culture. Maps and diagrams explore the movements to battle and command decisions taken. Also examined is the performance of the Roman manipular legion over the Antigonid pike phalanx and whether Flamininus’ victory truly demonstrated the superiority of Roman arms.
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Anderson, Noel. Wars Without End. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197798645.001.0001.

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Abstract Despite their untold human suffering, widespread destruction and loss, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world’s most violent civil wars continue to burn. In light of their devastating effects, how can we explain the intractability of costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, civil wars? By situating internal conflicts within the broader geopolitical environment in which they take place, this book provides an answer. It highlights the critical role of competitive intervention—opposing, simultaneous transfers of military assistance from different third-party states to both government and rebel combatants—in the dynamics, duration, and global prevalence of internal conflict. Providing a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of this form of external meddling, it brings together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars to explain how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them. In doing so, it challenges traditional conceptions of “proxy war” by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it, offering new and productive angles on the behaviors of armed groups, the strategies of foreign interveners, and the trajectories of internal wars. Combining statistical analyses with detailed case studies drawing on fieldwork, original interviews, declassified intelligence reports, and archival research, the book explains competitive intervention’s pernicious effects, documents its consequences for civil wars, and proposes policy prescriptions aimed at resolving some of today’s most intractable conflicts.
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Ross, Charles D. Breaking the Blockade. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831347.001.0001.

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On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have — and what England and other foreign countries wanted — was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking — from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor — were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured. The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. This book focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.
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Dickson, Keith D. No Surrender. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400691843.

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The end of the Civil War may have marked the end of the official fighting, but the Congressional strategy to remake the South during Reconstruction led to a new period of warfare–asymmetric warfare in which the defeated Confederacy became the Southern resistance. Despite all the power at its disposal, the North failed to change the South after nearly 11 years of effort and instead accepted a political-social equilibrium dictated by the South. This book presents Reconstruction through an unconventional lens to explain the process of transition from war to warfare, and finally to equilibrium represented by the emergence of the New South. Author Keith D. Dickson explains how Reconstruction created a false equilibrium in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and was reversed by Congressional action that imposed a new social and political order. By resistance of these actions through asymmetric warfare, the white South was able to establish a new equilibrium–one dictated by the South that opened the path to the New South. Providing insights from an author who is both a respected academic military historian as well as a former practitioner of unconventional warfare as a Special Forces officer, the book covers the historical period 1865–1877, casting the Reconstruction period as an example of protracted asymmetric warfare. This asymmetric warfare was conducted in phases against the Republican state governments. As both the U.S. Congress and the Grant administration abandoned the lofty goals for Reconstruction, a bitterly contested presidential election provided the opportunity to establish conditions favorable to the white South that would in turn lead to a political-social equilibrium that allowed reconciliation to begin.
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