Iraq War 2003: Rise of the New Unilateralism - Hardcover

Iraq War 2003 : Rise of the New Unilateralism

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Contents: Foreword. 1. On US political-military objectives in Iraq and its "Grand Strategy" for the 21 century/K. Santhanam. 2. The Iraq war and UN's struggle for relevance/Tasneem Meenai. 3. A political overview of the Iraq crisis/Sudhir Saxena. 4. The oil factor/Sudha Mahalingam. 5. A profile of Saddam Hussein and his politics/Uttam Kumar Sinha. 6. Military- meteorological aspects/Ajey Lele. 7. Ground forces/Devinder Singh. 8. Naval roles/P.K. Ghosh. 9. An unequal air war/Rajiv Mata. 10. Military utilisation of space by USA/Ajey Lele. 11. Postscript. Index. "A group of 9 scholars and professionals in the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi - the IDSA Iraq Insight Team - has been tracking the crescendo of events in the current Iraq crisis from the political, economic and military perspectives. The team has attempted to analyse the ebb and flow of events since early 2002 to generate a multi-disciplinary view of the crisis. Its members bring together professional expertise, experience and knowledge of about 200 person-years in fields ranging from the armed forces to economics, politics, international relations and technology. "This topical book of high international interest offers an incisive analysis from a developing world of the nature of the crisis, the pol-mil objectives of USA, military build-up, the role of oil as a key factor and the sense of helplessness felt by the UN and the international community. "Out of these complex set of inter-linked elements, it attempts to place the single-minded agenda of US neo-conservative, right 174 pp. Artikel-Nr. 48419

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