This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators...Lasīt vairāk
Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with the new state in 1922. Plunged immediately into chaos of a bitter civil war, the...Lasīt vairāk
This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators...Lasīt vairāk
During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged as it...Lasīt vairāk
In the late 1980s, the army crisis was dominating headlines in Ireland. Complaints of poor pay, low morale and unsatisfactory conditions for those serving in the Defence Forces were growing louder against the background of a government accused of b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Mar-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN-13: 9781250018823)
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A dramatic survey of the role of Irish soldiers in military engagements throughout the world draws on first-person accounts to describe how they left their homes to participate in world-changing conflicts, offering additional insight into their contr...Lasīt vairāk
Kelly (U. of Edinburgh and Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies) shares stories and insight into the lives of men and women of independent neutral Ireland who joined British Armed Forces to fight on the Allied side during the Second World War. This b...Lasīt vairāk
In 1946, An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (FCA) was established, providing the Irish Defence Forces with a volunteer reserve force which numbered over 100,000. The FCA participated in training and military exercises, and was an integral featur...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Oct-2006, Hardback, Izdevniecība: New Island Books, ISBN-13: 9781905494392)
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In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katangan conflict in the Congo, central Africa, a company of Irish peacekeeping troops was forced to surrender to soldiers loyal to Katangas prime minister, Moise Tshombe. Originally dispatched...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Oct-2006, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: New Island Books, ISBN-13: 9781905494316)
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Exposes how in the burial of The Jadotville Affair there lies the wider question of how, as well as why, these Irish peacekeeping soldiers became pawns in the international politics for control of Katanga and its vast mineral wealth....Lasīt vairāk
The Republic of Ireland has won its status as a leading contributor to international peacekeeping operations, which have been its key foreign policy since the 1960s. But why is Ireland so keen to be involved? It cannot simply be for charitable reas...Lasīt vairāk
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In 1969, British Soldiers were ordered on to the streets of riot-torn Belfast, their task to form a disciplined human buffer between two warring communities inspired by a centuries-old fear and hatred.Sixteen years later Michael Dewar sought to d...Lasīt vairāk
