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UNINA9910700290103321 |
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Solis William M |
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Warfighter support [[electronic resource] ] : preliminary observations on DOD's progress and challenges in distributing supplies and equipment to Afghanistan : testimony before the Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives / / statement of William M. Solis |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2010] |
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1 online resource (26 pages) |
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Testimony ; ; GAO-10-842T |
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Logistics |
Logistics |
United States Armed Forces Equipment Management |
United States Armed Forces Supplies and stores Management |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed June 28, 2010). |
"June 25, 2010." |
"A classified version of this statement (GAO-10-462C) was delivered to a closed session of the Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, on March 4, 2010." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Summary -- Many DOD organizations are involved in distributing supplies and equipment by various routes and methods into and around Afghanistan -- DOD has taken some steps to improve the distribution process based on lessons learned -- Several challenges hinder DOD's ability to distribute supplies and equipment to U.S. forces in Afghanistan -- Concluding observations. |
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UNINA9910779676803321 |
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Straus Scott |
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The Order of Genocide : Race, Power, and War in Rwanda / / Scott Straus |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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0-8014-6714-4 |
0-8014-6715-2 |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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HISTORY |
Africa / Central |
Genocide - Rwanda |
History & Archaeology |
Regions & Countries - Africa |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Background to the Genocide -- 2. Genocide at the National and Regional Levels -- 3. Local Dynamics -- 4. The Génocidaires -- 5. Why Perpetrators Say They Committed Genocide -- 6. The Logic of Genocide -- 7. Historical Patterns of Violence -- 8. Rwanda's Leviathan -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index |
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The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did individuals make decisions that led them to take up machetes against their neighbors? And what was the logic that drove the campaign of extermination?According to Scott Straus, a social scientist and former journalist in East Africa for several years (who received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting for the Houston Chronicle), many of the widely held beliefs about the causes and course of genocide in Rwanda are |
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incomplete. They focus largely on the actions of the ruling elite or the inaction of the international community. Considerably less is known about how and why elite decisions became widespread exterminatory violence.Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research-including the most comprehensive surveys yet undertaken among convicted perpetrators-to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Current interpretations stress three main causes for the genocide: ethnic identity, ideology, and mass-media indoctrination (in particular the influence of hate radio). Straus's research does not deny the importance of ethnicity, but he finds that it operated more as a background condition. Instead, Straus emphasizes fear and intra-ethnic intimidation as the primary drivers of the violence. A defensive civil war and the assassination of a president created a feeling of acute insecurity. Rwanda's unusually effective state was also central, as was the country's geography and population density, which limited the number of exit options for both victims and perpetrators.In conclusion, Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history-the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans-and assessing the future likelihood of such events. |
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