Humanitarian Intervention: Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 - Couverture souple

Rudd, Gordon W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0160731631 ISBN 13 : 9780160731631

Editeur : Government Printing Office, 2004

Synopsis

CMH Pub 70-78-1. Details the role of the United States Army in Operation Provide Comfort in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's 1991 brutal suppression of the Iraqi Kurds.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Humanitarian Intervention is an operational study of the U.S.-led relief effort PROVIDE COMFORT, hastily organized in the spring of 1991 in response to the international outcry to stop the suffering and dying of the Iraqi Kurds who had been brutally suppressed in the aftermath of DESERT STORM and had fled across a mountainous border into Turkey. Gordon W. Rudd documents and describes this challenging operation involving joint and multinational forces. His study validates the capacity of military forces, well trained for war, not only to adapt quickly for humanitarian relief missions without specialized preparation but also to work alongside civilian relief agencies attempting to assist the refugees, requiring significant cooperation between the two groups. Today the potential of the new round of military-led peace operations to reduce turmoil and conflict-and, in effect, contribute to shaping the international environment-is significant, and soldiers now deployed in distant lands amidst unfamiliar people in the service of their nation will find Rudd's instructive perspective and record of the Army's experience invaluable.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Government Printing Office
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0160731631
• ISBN 13: 9780160731631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible