De operatie in Afghanistan confronteert Nederlandse militairen met een veelheid van taken op het gebied van veiligheid, ondersteuning van het civiele bestuur en wederopbouw. Veiligheid komt vóór democratie en wederopbouw. Daarbij zijn ook veelvuldig militaire confrontaties aan de orde. Hoe treden …

The authors take a legal perspective at the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli conflict, but also illustrate the difficulty states armed forces have when facing non-state adversaries. International law (ius ad bellum) and the laws of war (ius in bello) both seem to originate most of all from the history of western, …

Because of the high-risk deployments into Afghanistan, soldiers’ parents have become more important in public opinion as well as in activities of family support groups. Although their voice is heard louder than ever before, research into parents’ experiences in the course of deployment is sparse. This …

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) encountered numerous problems during the invasion of southern Lebanon in 2006. Division 162, for instance, experienced serious difficulties while approaching the village of Ghandouriyeh.2 Even though multiple axes of approach were available the IDF took the route along …

Het optreden in Irak en Afghanistan laat zien hoe lastig het is om een irreguliere tegenstander te bestrijden. Hoe werkten de erfenis van Vietnam en de ervaringen in Irak uit op het doctrinaire denken bij het Amerikaanse leger en de mariniers? Hoe kwamen achtereenvolgens een interim Field Manual in 2004 …

Almost continually Afghanistan has had a national police force which, centrally controlled, served the interests of the government in a repressive manner. Dependent on the signature of the regime, the role and realisation of its task differed. Where in the nineteen-sixties and seventies the emphasis …

In this article the author homes in on the tension inherent in the mission in Afghanistan: finding the balance in conducting reconstruction operations while also providing security including the application of considerable force, if necessary. He analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of Dutch land …

The author compiled what became public of Israels air force activities, raising the question of its effectiveness. Of course, Hezbollah was no match for air superiority, but fired rockets at Israel from an extensive network of tunnels and subterranean bunkers and shelters. In this conflict the added …

The collapse of the Soviet Union meant the removal of the main adversary of NATO, and many believed that NATO had become obsolete given its original purpose of countering the Soviet communist threat. The end of the Cold War caused a debate about the future role and the necessity of the Alliance. It soon …

Dit is het eerste Nederlandse artikel waarin ouders van uitgezonden militairen centraal staan. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar ouders wier kind betrokken was bij een uitzending naar Bosnië-Herzegowina of Uruzgan. Ouders zijn zeer betrokken bij hun kinderen. Ze zijn ook bezorgd, zeker wanneer ze de uitzending …