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True to their salt : indigenous personnel in Western armed forces / Robert Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Robert, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Combined operations (Military science)--History.
- Combined operations (Military science).
- Military assistance--Western countries--History.
- Military assistance.
- Armies, Colonial--History.
- Armies, Colonial.
- Militia--History.
- Militia.
- Mercenary troops--History.
- Mercenary troops.
- Colonization--History.
- Colonization.
- Military history--Case studies.
- Military history.
- Western countries--Armed Forces--History.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (550 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Within the last decade, the Iraqi Army and the Afghan National Army brought together local fighters, militias, and former insurgents among other auxiliaries to create their local armed forces. While this aided in establishing a sense of security, it also created the risk of an over-empowered local military. Robert Johnson seeks to address these concerns with in-depth look at colonial and post-colonial auxiliaries.
- Contents:
- Introduction: partnering with indigenous forces
- Raising armies: North American and South Asian personnel in British, American and French service, 1746-1783
- The mercenary motive, contracts and mutiny
- Discipline and punishment
- Slave soldiers of the Americas
- Armies of empire
- Imperial armies in Africa
- Irregulars and advisers in colonial service
- Colonial armies and irregulars in the First World War, 1914-1918
- Local forces in the Second World War
- Local forces during the wars of decolonisation
- Building the Afghan and Iraqi security forces, 2003-2014
- Future challenges: upstream engagement and private forces
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-069457-2
- OCLC:
- 1027735356
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