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Military coalitions are ubiquitous. The United States builds them regularly, yet they are associated with the largest, most destructive, and consequential wars in history. When do states build them, and what partners do they choose? Are coalitions a recipe for war, or can they facilitate peace? Finally, when do coalitions affect the expansion of conflict beyond its original participants? The Politics of Military Coalitions introduces newly collected data designed to answer these very questions, showing that coalitions - expensive to build but attractive from a military standpoint - are very often more (if sometimes less) than the sum of their parts, at times encouraging war while discouraging it at others, at times touching off wider wars while at others keeping their targets isolated. The combination of new data, new formal theories, and new quantitative analysis will be of interest to scholars, students, and policymakers alike.

Combined operations (Military science) --- Allied operations (Military science) --- Military art and science --- Strategy --- Tactics --- Political aspects.

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Written under the auspices of the The Transfer Cooperation Programme, this book reports on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multiagency trust and coalition trust. It also considers trust in information and automation, taking a systems view of humans as agents in a muti-agent, socio-technical, community. The different types of trust are usually found to share many of the same emotive, behavioural, cognitive and social constructs, but differ in the degree of importance associated with each of them.

Trust. --- Combat --- Combined operations (Military science) --- Military art and science --- Armed Forces --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Automation. --- Equipment --- Reliability.

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"The First Washington Conference, codenamed ARCADIA, was a secret meeting held the days immediately following the entrance of the United States into World War II-December 1941 to January 1942. It was the first meeting between the United States and Britain to determine military strategy. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and their top aides spent hours making major decisions that would determine the direction of the Allied war effort. The main achievement of the conference was the "Europe first" decision, declaring that the defeat of Germany was the highest priority. Many other policies were determined that winter in the nation's capital: the "unity of command" principle, placing the various theaters of war under a single, supreme commander; limits on reinforcements for the Pacific in light of the Europe first policy; measures specifically aimed at keeping China in the war; the coordination of shipping and logistics among the Allies; and the establishment of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, centered in Washington, to approve the military decisions of both the United States and Britain Neither side knew what to expect before this momentous meeting. Before the war, the British and the Americans had differing strategic concerns, especially about the Pacific and East Asia, differences of such contrast that the conference was in jeopardy of ending early if not resolved. The narrative uses a chronological approach that examines in detail each day of the conference. This day-by-day methodology shows the gradual development of rapport between the allied chieftains, why and how it forged relationships, and the undercurrent of tension as each ally sought to ensure its national interests while cooperating with the other in a grand alliance. Historian and retired Brigadier General John F. Shortal skillfully unravels the inside story of this pivotal meeting. He shows how the working and personal relationships between Roosevelt and Churchill, as well as their military chiefs of staffs, first took root and then blossomed during the conference laying the cornerstone of trust for Anglo-American wartime collaboration. Arcadia makes a major contribution not only to the history of World War II, but also to our understanding of the power structure of the postwar world"--

World War, 1939-1945 --- Combined operations (Military science) --- Campaigns --- Congresses. --- Diplomatic history. --- United States. --- Combined Chiefs of Staff (U.S. and Great Britain) --- History. --- Washington Conference --- United States --- Great Britain --- Military policy. --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations

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During stability operations, coalitions must incorporate participation by government agencies other than the military, the indigenous government, and its population more than is expected during conventional combat operations. This book investigates challenges confronting coalitions today and considers potential solutions that include questioning the conception of what constitutes a coalition in today's world.

Armed Forces -- Stability operations. --- Counterinsurgency. --- Integrated operations (Military science). --- Armed Forces --- Counterinsurgency --- Integrated operations (Military science) --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Science - General --- Stability operations --- Military art and science. --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- ARMED FORCES--STABILITY OPERATIONS --- COUNTERINSURGENCY --- COMBINED OPERATIONS (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- INTEGRATED OPERATIONS (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- Naval art and science --- War

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How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How does international burden-sharing in this context look like: between the rich and the poor; the big and the small? These are the questions Marina E. Henke addresses in her new book Constructing Allied Cooperation. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of 80 multilateral military coalitions, Henke demonstrates that coalitions do not emerge naturally. Rather, pivotal states deliberately build them. They develop operational plans and bargain suitable third parties into the coalition, purposefully using their bilateral and multilateral diplomatic connections-what Henke terms diplomatic embeddedness-as a resource. As Constructing Allied Cooperation shows, these ties constitute an invaluable state capability to engage others in collective action: they are tools to construct cooperation.Pulling apart the strategy behind multilateral military coalition-building, Henke looks at the ramifications and side effects as well. As she notes, via these ties, pivotal states have access to private information on the deployment preferences of potential coalition participants. Moreover, they facilitate issue-linkages and side-payments and allow states to overcome problems of credible commitments. Finally, pivotal states can use common institutional contacts (IO officials) as cooperation brokers, and they can convert common institutional venues into fora for negotiating coalitions.The theory and evidence presented by Henke force us to revisit the conventional wisdom on how cooperation in multilateral military operations comes about. The author generates new insights with respect to who is most likely to join a given multilateral intervention, what factors influence the strength and capacity of individual coalitions, and what diplomacy and diplomatic ties are good for. Moreover, as the Trump administration promotes an "America First" policy and withdraws from international agreements and the United Kingdom completes Brexit, Constructing Allied Cooperation is an important reminder that international security cannot be delinked from more mundane forms of cooperation; multilateral military coalitions thrive or fail depending on the breadth and depth of existing social and diplomatic networks.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Combined operations (Military science) --- Intervention (International law) --- Security, International --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Military intervention --- Diplomacy --- International law --- Neutrality --- Allied operations (Military science) --- Military art and science --- Strategy --- Tactics --- Political aspects. --- International cooperation. --- military coalitions, alliances, burden-sharing, diplomacy, diplomatic networks.