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Coalition Warfare: An Anthology of Scholarly Presentations at the Conference on Coalition Warfare at the Royal Danish Defence College, 2011 Unabridged edition
Author(s): Kjeld Hald Galster (Editor), Søren Nørby (Editor), Niels Bo Poulsen (Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: July 25, 2013
- Edition: Unabridged edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 199 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443848417
- ISBN-13: 9781443848411
Book Description
It is unquestionable that the warfare of various post-Cold War ‘coalitions-of-the-willing’ has drawn much attention over recent years. However, we may also notice that associations of nations fighting, or preparing to fight, for common causes are no novelty. Multi-national co-operation in fields as costly and as fateful as war depends on considerations and caveats concerning political purpose, risks, mutual trust, national wealth and pride, compatibility of military forces and a glut of intangible forces and effects characterising human interaction. Thus, this anthology includes scholarly research papers describing coalition warfare both past and present from the perspective of commonalities and differences materialising across history. Coalition warfare is a complicated matter and is as subject to frictions and surprises as any other kind of warfare, but it is a politico-military reality that remains of importance to not only historians, but also politicians and military commanders. This reality is what this anthology endeavours to scrutinise.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The book brings out differing analysis and views of Western researchers on a current topic. All authors have carried out detailed research of their topics, and give exhaustive bibliography and references. The book will be useful to military scholars. It is recommended for libraries of institutions of higher military learning.” Lt. Gen. Y.M. Bammi, PhD Journal of Defence Studies, 9: 4 (2015)
About the Author
Soren Norby (born 1976) is Lecturer of Military History at the Centre for Military History at the Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen. He graduated from Copenhagen University in 2004 with a Master’s degree in History and is the author of a number of books and articles on the Danish military (mainly with a focus on the Danish navy) during the Cold War and beyond. His most recent book, Abent hav. Mit liv i sovaernet 1945-1990 [Open Seas: My Life in the Navy 1945-1990] (co-written with Vice Admiral J. F. Bork), was published in 2012. He has alsoe written a large number of articles about Danish military history from 1500 until 2012. Niels Bo Poulsen (born 1968) is Senior Advisor and Head of the Centre for Military History at the Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen. He received his MA in History and East European Studies in 1996 and his PhD on the Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in 2005 and is the author of a number of books and articles on Denmark during World War Two, the Waffen-SS and the war on the Eastern Front. His most recent book, Den store faedrelandskrig. Statsmagt og mennesker i Sovjetunionen 1939-1955 (The Great Patriotic War: Society and State in the Soviet Union 1939 -1955), analyses the living conditions and the popular mood in the Soviet Union during and after World War II. He is also editor in chief of Militaert Tidsskrift, a leading Danish periodical on military affairs Kjeld Hald Galster was educated at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge. An ex-military officer, he was commissioned into the Royal Life Guards in 1973. He is now an independent researcher and has published widely on military history from the 17th to the 21st centuries and contributed to a score of anthologies.
