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Afroz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Timothy N. Castle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955-1975
    1993
    Co-Authors: Timothy N. Castle
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    Neutrality that does not work conflict, diplomacy and covert operations the Geneva facade - see, hear and speak no evil SECSTATE theatre of war William Sullivan's war changing war, changing rules the denouement of US Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government.

  • At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: United States Military Aid to the Royal LAO Government 1955-75
    1991
    Co-Authors: Timothy N. Castle
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    Abstract : This study focuses on America's extraordinary and little known Military involvement in the Kingdom of Laos. From 1955 until the Lao Communist takeover in 1975 the United States pursued a highly unorthodox and controversial strategy which charged the Central Intelligence Agency and the Departments of State and Defense with secretly supplying Military assistance to this technically neutral country. Successive administrations developed this remarkable policy in response to Communist violations of the Geneva agreements of 1954 and 1962 and crafted it to avoid overt U.S. violations of the same agreements. This study addresses the following fundamental questions: what were the international, regional, and internal Laotian political and Military issues which brought about the Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1962? How was Laos affected by the Agreements of 1954 and 1962? What were the specific actions of the United States as a result of these Agreements? What was the role of the Department of Defense, State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Central Intelligence Agency in these activities and why? How, and for what reasons, was the Royal Thai government involved in this effort? What was the effectiveness of the U.S. Military Aid programs in terms of security for the Lao government? What were the ultimate effects of this involvement in relation to U.S. objectives in the rest of Southeast Asia?

Steven C. Poe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • US Military Aid in the 1980s: A Global Analysis
    Journal of Peace Research, 1995
    Co-Authors: Steven C. Poe, James Meernik
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    Although researchers have recently made some progress in explaining the outputs of the US economic Aid decision-making process, their efforts to explain the allocation of US Military Aid have been rather disappointing. In this article, we follow previous studies that have assumed a two-stage process leading up to the allocation of Military Aid, while making three significant improvements over those efforts. First we employ a better model, including a variety of political, strategic, economic, and humanitarian variables we hypothesize to be related to the allocation of Military Aid. Second, we solve the `low n' difficulty that plagued previous research, by employing an extensive dataset that covers a global sample of countries covering the 1983-8 period. And third, unlike previous research where a two-stage process has been assumed, we employ a methodology that solves the difficulties associated with selection bias, which arises when two interrelated decisions are modeled separately. As a result of these improvements our results are much stronger than those of previous studies. We find that strategic, political, and economic interests, as well as human rights concerns and economic development, have been considered in the US Military Aid decision-making process.

  • Human Rights and the Allocation of US Military Assistance
    Journal of Peace Research, 1991
    Co-Authors: Steven C. Poe
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    A relationship between US Military Aid and the human rights practices of potential recipient countries is mandated by law. Yet the preponderance of the results obtained in past quantitative studies seems to indicate that no such relationship exists in reality. This study focuses on the question of whether governments that abuse human rights are disqualified completely from US Military Aid programs. When some weaknesses of previous studies are rectified, human rights abuse is then found to have affected the allocation of Military Aid in two distinct samples of countries: Western hemisphere countries; and a random sample of the world's nations, micro-states excluded. Human rights abuse affected US Military Aid allocation during both the Carter and Reagan presidencies. The appearance of a relationship during the Reagan presidency indicates the effect endured even under an administration thought generally to have de-emphasized human rights in its foreign-policy decisions.

Andrew Boutton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Military Aid, Regime Vulnerability and the Escalation of Political Violence
    British Journal of Political Science, 2019
    Co-Authors: Andrew Boutton
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    AbstractThis article offers an explanation for the failures of US Military assistance programs in some countries. The author argues that the effects of Military Aid are conditional upon the vulnerability of the recipient regime. Power consolidation by an insecure leader often provokes violent opposition. However, because Military Aid strengthens the security forces of the recipient state, it generates a moral hazard that encourages exclusionary power consolidation, with the expectation that continued Military Aid will help manage violent blowback. Using proxies for regime vulnerability and an instrument for US Military Aid, the study shows that Military Aid increases anti-regime violence in new regimes (particularly new democracies) and in all personalist regimes. In contrast, Military assistance has no effect on violence in established, non-personalist regimes. The article develops a novel theory of how regime characteristics condition responses to external Military support, and identifies a distinct mechanism through which Military Aid increases domestic political violence.

Xiaoming Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.