Military advising and assistance : from mercenaries to privatization, 1815-2007 / edited by Donald Stoker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stoker, Donald J.

Series:

Cass military studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military assistance--History.

Military assistance.

Military missions--History.

Military missions.

Private security services--History.

Private security services.

Foreign enlistment--History.

Foreign enlistment.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

1 The history and evolution of foreign military advising and assistance, 1815-2007 / Donald Stoker 1

2 Missions or mercenaries? European military advisors in Mehmed Ali's Egypt, 1815-1848 / John P. Dunn 11

3 The impact of foreign advisors on Chile's armed forces, 1810-2005 / William F. Sater 26

4 Buying influence, selling arms, undermining a friend: the French naval mission to Poland and the development of the Polish Navy, 1923-1932 / Donald Stoker 42

5 Uneasy intelligence collaboration, genuine ill will, with an admixture of ideology: the British Military Mission to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 / Alaric Searle 61

6 American advisors to the Republic of Korea: America's first commitment in the Cold War, 1946-1950 / Bryan R. Gibby 81

7 The French-Algerian War, 1954-1962: Communist China's support for Algerian independence / Donovan C. Chau 111

8 Relegated to the backseat: Farm Gate and the failure of the US air advisory effort in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 / Edward B. Westermann 127

9 Ruminations of a wooly mammoth, or training and advising in counterinsurgency and elsewhere during the Cold War / John D. Waghelstein 151

10 "Imperial grunts" revisited: the US advisory mission in Colombia / Douglas Porch, Christopher W. Muller 168

11 Training the new Afghan tank force: a multi-national advisory mission, 2 June 2003 to 3 December 2003 / Jonathan Byrom 192

12 The evolution of combined USMC/Iraqi army operations: a company commander's perspective, Fallujah, Iraq, September 2005 to April 2006 / William H. Grube 210

13 A justified heaping of the blame? An assessment of privately supplied security sector training and reform in Iraq - 2003-2005 and beyond / Christopher Spearin 224

14 The transformation of private military training / Patrick Cullen 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-257) and index.

ISBN:

9780415770156

0415770157

9780203938713

0203938712

OCLC:

148729762