Foreign Military Intervention

Examining the origins, development and conclusion of political military interventions, this text considers the implications for the interveners, the target countries and local allies, as well as the possible lessons that may be learned from cases of military intervention. Foreign Military Intervention brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies-the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka-constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and nondemocracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regimes and insurgent movements.