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France today maintains a strong global presence. Investment bankers may have replaced foreign legionnaires in Africa, Indo-China and the Middle East. but French government and business plays an active role throughout the world. To safeguard foreign installations and individuals, and to provide security for Metropolitan France itself. France has concentrated all its air land and sea special forces in a single Special Operations Command, or COS.
As always, the many illustrations gathered here by Histoire & Collections are of inestimable value to collectors, gamers and military buffs. Micheletti opens up an unknown (in the U.S.) world of intrigue and special warfare. French special forces are active in Guiana, Chad Tahiti and Diibouti, facing everything from well-intentioned environmentalists to hard-core terrorists. COS also provides extra security for French forces in Saudi Arabia and Bosnia.
American readers will also learn here for the first time about France's secret war in Corsica, a war the U.S. media feels Americans "wouldn't be interested in." Full details of French counter-terror aid to Algeria are still under wraps, but readers will also gain some insights into this developing trouble spot.
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Michael Haverty
reviewed French Special Forces on September 05, 2012 French Special Forces
Stephen Cohen defines the Pakistan army succinctly, there are three types of armies that guard their nation's borders, there are those that are concerned by protecting their own position in society, and there are those which defend a cause or an idea. The Pakistan army does all three.
Islamic Pakistan was defined in reaction to a Hindu India.
Another interesting observation is that the Army was sort of encouraged by Jinnah to act independently when he was convinced into receding his earlier order of attacking Kashmir in 1947 by the British COAS. Notice India still had a British governor general, thus avoiding any friction in carrying out orders.
Coming from an army background myself, there was little I didn't know of Pakistan Army's business ventures, but the book still provided a comprehensive breakdown of the huge numbers involved. Milbus has managed to create a new class of urban feudal class in Pakistan, one which seems even lucrative to the legacy feudal of the rural variety.
I found the book very difficult to digest as it reads like a PhD dissertation crammed with heavy stats, numbers and pretty boring facts. Ayesha could have masse the book a lot more interesting by introducing some candid interviews of army personal who do make very interesting interviewees.
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