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Zustand: New. Davis, Rob (illustrator). In.

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis study is a historical analysis of the 1978 Shaba Province Invasion in Zaire that culminated in three independent rescue missions to save expatriate mine workers from being killed as hostages. The study encompasses earlier cri.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study is a historical analysis of the 1978 Shaba Province Invasion in Zaire that culminated in three independent rescue missions to save expatriate mine workers from being killed as hostages. The study encompasses earlier crises in the country, tracing the origins and history of the Katangan Gendarmerie from its creation in 1960 to the invasion of 1978. For the first time, this study includes the entire Western response to the invasion: the initial airborne operation by the Zairian Army; the airborne assault by the French Foreign Legion's 2nd Parachute Regiment; and the air assault landing by the Belgian Paracommando Regiment. In doing so, it addresses the abortive Zairian airborne operation that set off the massacre of expatriate mine workers and forced a European reaction to the murders. Next the thesis examines the French response to the crisis through the use of primary source materials such as the operations orders, daily journals, and after action reports. The study then addresses the Belgian response to the crisis through the Belgian Army's official publications, the Belgian news media, and personal documents of the then Regimental operations officer. Overall, the thesis uses United States Department of State message traffic to document the actions taken during the invasion.

Wraps. Zustand: very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 25 cm, xi, [1] 224 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (photographs, diagrams). Maps. Appendices. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Leavenworth Papers Number 14. Drawing on newly declassified official American and Belgian sources, as well as on personal interviews with commanders and staff officers who planned and executed the operations, Major Odom analyzes and assesses events in the Congo. Odom, Thomas P. (b. 1953) (Thomas Paul Odom). Education: Texas A&M University, graduated; Naval Postgraduate School, M.A., 1982; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, M.A., 1988. U.S. Army, became lieutenant colonel and foreign area officer, civil servant specializing in military analysis. He joined the U.S. Army and served five tours as a foreign area officer (FAO) specializing in Africa and the Middle East, although he was also posted to Lebanon, Turkey, and the Sudan. FAOs, also called strategic scouts, are charged with assessing a situation and providing information to those making policies and plans. Author of Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965, Combat Studies Institute (Fort Leavenworth, KS), 1988; Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, KS), 1993; (With Robert H. Scales, Jr.) Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War, Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (Washington, DC), 1993; Journey into Darkness: Genocide in Rwanda, Texas A&M University Press (College Station, TX), 2005; and Contributor to periodicals, including Small Wars Journal and Military Review. In August 1964, thousands of Simba rebels attacked and captured the city of Stanleyville in the newly independent Republic of the Congo and took more than 1,600 European and American residents as hostages, threatening to kill them if any attempt was made to recapture the city. In November of that year, after months of increasingly tense and complex discussions among the governments whose nationals were being held, an airborne assault by Belgian paracommandos dropped by American Air Force planes, combined with a CIA-piloted air strike against the Stanleyville airport, liberated most of the hostages, but only after a Simba-initiated massacre. "Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965" provides both the political background to these events and a detailed account of the actual operations: Dragon Rouge, the operations in Stanleyville, and Dragon Noir, focused on the city of Paulis, several hundred miles away. The book highlights the difficulties in organizing an international rescue effort with insufficient joint planning and inadequate command and control among the Belgian and American forces, as well as their differing political ideas and goals. The ad hoc nature of the planning was exemplified by an initial American Special Forces plan to air drop its forces east of Stanleyville and float down the river to Stanleyville. This plan was aborted when it was pointed out that the existence of Stanley Falls between the drop zone and the city was an insuperable obstacle. The operation also suffered from the Belgian commander's colonial-era contempt for the numerical strength of the Simbas and American fears of what was in reality a non-existent Communist element in the rebel movement. "Dragon Operations" demonstrates that, despite the slapdash nature of their planning and communications aspects, as well as the distance involved, the austere support, the large number of hostages, and a lack of intelligence data, they were remarkably successful in rescuing most of the hostages. Although less than ideal, the operations worked better than expected, given the conditions under which they were conducted. This important study of an almost forgotten episode of the Cold War has much to offer to military strategists and tacticians, political scientists and students of contemporary history alike.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Muy bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Muy bien. Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Passages: Robert Rosenblum on Tom Wesselmann," by Robert Rosenblum; "Passages: Thomas Lawson on Gretchen Bender," by Thomas Lawson; "Books: Keith Sanborn on Guy Debord," by Keith Sanborn; "Film: James Quandt on 'Cinévardaphoto,'" by James Quandt; "On Site: Carol Armstrong on the Barnes Foundation," by Carol Armstrong; "Media: Christopher Bollen on Courtroom Drawings," by Christopher Bollen; "News: Steven Henry Madoff on the Walker Art Center," by Steven Henry Madoff; "Top Ten," by Kehinde Wiley; "Please Recycle: The Art of Kelley Walker," by Tim Griffin; "Russian Front: The Moscow Biennale," by John Kelsey; "1000 Words: Spencer Finch," by Daniel Birnbaum; "Artist Curates: Personal Affects," by T.J. Wilcox; "Vocational Education: An Interview with Lucrecia Martel," by Amy Taubin; "Openings: Hans Op de Beeck," by Martin Herbert. Reviews by Jack Bankowsky, Isabelle Graw, David Deitcher, Lynne Cooke, Barry Schwabsky, Michael Wilson, Jan Avgikos, Donald Kuspit, Martha Schwendener, Nell McClister, Johanna Burton, Elizabeth Schambelan, Frances Richard, Karen Rosenberg, Suzanne Hudson, Brian Sholis, Jeffrey Kastner, Jonathan Raymond, Tom Breidenbach, David Carrier, Michael Odom, Glen Helfand, Bruce Hainley, Jan Tumlir, Christopher Miles, Maxine Swann, Pablo Llorca, Filippo Romeo, Giorgio Verzotti, Marco Meneguzzo, Guitemie Maldonado, Sabine B. Vogel, Astrid Wege, Jennifer Allen, Michael Archer, Rachel Withers, David Spalding. Cover: Kelley Walker.