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University of Pennsylvania Press Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations Afghanistan and Lebanon by Chiara Ruffa
As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on their goals and impact. Yet we know surprisingly little about the factors that prompt soldiers' behavior. Despite being deployed on the same mission under similar conditions, various national contingents display significant, systematic differences in their actions on the ground._x000D__x000D__x000D_In Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, Chiara Ruffa challenges the widely held assumption that military contingents, regardless of their origins, implement mandates in a similar manner. She argues instead that military culture-the set of attitudes, values, and beliefs instilled into an army and transmitted across generations of those in uniform -influences how soldiers behave at the tactical level. When soldiers are abroad, they are usually deployed as units, and when a military unit deploys, its military culture goes with it. By investigating where military culture comes from, Ruffa demonstrates why military units conduct themselves the way they do._x000D__x000D__x000D_Between 2007 and 2014, Ruffa was embedded in French and Italian units deployed under comparable circumstances in two different kinds of peace and stability operations: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Based on hundreds of interviews, she finds that while French units prioritized patrolling and the display of high levels of protection and force-such as body armor and weaponry-Italian units placed greater emphasis on delivering humanitarian aid. She concludes that civil-military relations and societal beliefs about the use of force in the units' home country have an impact on the military culture overseas, soldiers' perceptions and behavior, and, ultimately, consequences for their ability to keep the peace._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
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Chapter 1. Force Employment, Unit Peace Operation Effectiveness, and Military Cultures_x000D_
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Chapter 2. French and Italian Military Cultures_x000D_
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Chapter 3. French and Italian Units in Lebanon_x000D_
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Chapter 4. French and Italian Units in Afghanistan_x000D_
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Conclusion_x000D_
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Appendix_x000D_
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Notes_x000D_
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Bibliography_x000D_
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Index_x000D_
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Acknowledgments_x000D_