War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier by Carter Malkasian offers a detailed, ground-level account of the history, politics, and human experiences in Garmser, a district in southern Afghanistan that became a focal point of the Afghan wars. Drawing from extensive field research, interviews, and first-hand observation during his time as a political officer with U.S.…
Keamanan bernavigasi di laut merupakan hal yang sangat penting untuk semua negara di dunia karena perdagangan internasional yang menjalankan perekonomian negara tersebut bergantung pada lautan yang bebas dari ancaman. Dengan demikian, masalah pembajakan di Somalia menjadi suatu hal yang harus diatasi oleh masyarakat internasional. Meskipun berberapa angkatan laut dari banyak negara sudah mengam…
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They are models and the sea may be any surface which is convreniently to hand, but when the grey warships slip out of port at the start of a war game they become something different.
The area dealt with in this book, the Southern-Central African quadrant, is of special significance today both becouse it holds possibilities of great power confrontations and becouse more than any place else in the world it is torn by that most explosive of all issues: black-white conflict for power.