Military History and Strategy

Abstract The article examines when and how often great powers are likely to follow a grand strategy of restraint and whether there is any evidence that they have ever done so. The question has considerable implications for the ongoing US grand strategy debate. Restraint refers to the practice of self-discipline in the…

• TUDOR ANDREI ONEA

This article examines cooperation between the Dutch and the Turkish armed forces during two peacekeeping missions, respectively in Kosovo (KFOR, 1999–2000) and Kabul (ISAF, 2002–2003). It is based on a literature survey and interviews with officers and NCOs of both sides. The article deals with the collaboration betwe…

This article investigates how and why Mao’s protracted people’s war strategy of three stages (strategic defence, strategic balance, and strategic offence) was chosen and implemented as the main strategy by PKK and why PKK failed in the first stage of this strategy. It explores this failure using an empirical content a…

• NİHAT ALİ ÖZCAN

This chapter has two goals. First, it aims to conceptualize how emotions intersect with status hierarchies. Despite the simultaneous growth of the research programs on emotions and hierarchies in IR, these research strands have mostly remained unconnected. In previous work, we raised the possibility that emotions may…

Given Iraqi Kurds’ special place in Turkey’s ‘biographical narrative’, Turkey-Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) relations are not simply strategic or economic but also highly affectively charged. These relations involve emotional encounters filled with anxiety, pride, anger, and disappointment that generate conc…

• ÖZLEM KAYHAN PUSANE

Given Iraqi Kurds’ special place in Turkey’s ‘biographical narrative’, Turkey-Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) relations are not simply strategic or economic but also highly affectively charged. These relations involve emotional encounters filled with anxiety, pride, anger, and disappointment that generate conc…

• ASLI ILGIT

How empathic are battle-experienced war veterans and demobilized ex-combatants? Individuals who have participated in war-related violence tend to show an increased risk of mental health problems, which makes their readaptation to postconflict civilian life much more difficult. This study is the first systematic attemp…

• AGUSTİN MARİANO IBANEZ

Kıskançlık, insan olmanın temelinde olan, hoşa gitmeyen, istenmeyen ve aynı zamanda da olumsuz sonuçları olan bir duygudur. Kıskançlık kısaca insanların elindekileri kaybetme korkusudur. Kıskançlık ve haset duyguları birbirinin yerine kullanıldığı için sıklıkla karıştırılabilmektedir. Haset ve kıskançlık arasındaki fa…

• SEYHAN ÖZDEMİR

The aim of this paper is to uncover emerging challenges of peacekeeping operations, determine the changes in command actions and its effects on the professional preparation of commanders by analyzing experiences of military officers. To that end the research data were collected by means of structured face-to- face int…

Savunma sanayi bir ülkenin birçok yönden ihtiyacını karşılayan önemli bir sektördür. Bunlar arasında en önemlilerinden biri güvenlik güçlerinin ihtiyaç duyduğu Zırhlı Muharebe Araçları (ZMA) ve Zırhlı Personel Taşıyıcılardır (ZPT). Bu çalışmada Türkiye’nin terörle (PKK ile) mücadelesinde ihtiyaç duyulan özelliklerde Z…

David Kilcullen, ayaklanma ve askeri strateji konularında çalışan bir araştırmacıdır. En bilinen kitapları arasında Counterinsurgency ve Accidental Guerilla bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, kendisinin son kitaplarından Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerilla incelenmiştir. Kitap, “Giriş” ve “Ek” bölümle…

1949 yılında Çin Komünist Partisi (ÇKP) lideri Mao Zedong, Çin Milliyetçi Partisi (Kuomintang) lideri Çan Kay Şek'i kesin olarak yenilgiye uğratmıştı. Mao, ülkenin yönetimini ele geçirmiş, Şek ise Tayvan adasına kaçarak yönetimini burada sürdürmüştü. Bu tarihten itibaren Çin ve Tayvan arasında düşmanlık dönemi başlamı…

• CANER ÇAKI
• YUSUF FİDAN