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Long and winding road?…?to success? unit peace operation effect / Ruffa, Chiara

Ruffa, Chiara	Journal Article
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2013.

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Why does peacekeeping sometimes fail? How can effective peacekeepers increase the likelihood of success of a mission? The two main flaws in the current evaluations of peace operations are that they mainly rely on already concluded missions and that they make use of indicators that do not reveal micro-level dynamics. This article introduces an analytical framework relating the effectiveness of soldiers to their actual impact in their area of operation in a peace operation. The framework is called "unit peace operation effectiveness" (UPOE). Focusing on soldiers in peace operations, this article shows that: different units behave differently; emphasize different aspects of the mandate; and are effective in different ways. Ultimately, this has an actual impact on the end-state of the mission. It relies on and adapts classic security studies works to theoretically enrich the peacekeeping literature. The model is tested in an illustrative case study based on ethnographic work on French and Italian units in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2010.

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Peace Operations ; Afghanistan ; Ethnography ; Military Effectiveness ; French Army ; Italian Army ;
Mission Success

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Official inquiry into the Italian defeat at the battle of Capor / Ungari, Andrea

Ungari, Andrea	Journal Article
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2012.

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The battle of Caporetto in October-November 1917, one of the most catastrophic defeats administered to any army during the First World War, continues to stir lively debate nearly one hundred years later. While analysts then and for some time after blamed the debacle on soldier defeatism, historians today find the reasons in the Italian Army's tactical, logistical, and strategic shortcomings. Perhaps the most intriguing question before historians of the event today is why the general officer most responsible for the catastrophe not only managed to evade being charged for his failures but instead ended up as the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army. That is the subject of this article.

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Italy ; First World War ; Battle of Caporetto ; Soldier Defeatism ; Italian Army

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Understand prevent intervene : the Italian army prepares for the complex fight / Errico, Danilo

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Prevent ; Fight ; Italian Army ; Intervene

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