Military - new material (23)
01 December 1994
NATO peacekeeping and the United Nations. British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and Berlin Information Centre for Transatlantic Security (BITS). Report 94.1 September 1994. Critical study about the struggle for power and influence in the realm of "peacekeeping" between the UN NATO CSCE WEU and their member states.
Schattenseiten Sudostasien Restung und Militarisierung der ASEAN-Lander (Dark Side of South-East Asia Armament and Militarisation of ASEAN countries). August 1994. BUKO-Kampagne Stoppt den Rnstungsexport . Buchtstrasse 14/15 28195 Bremen, Germany. Documentation about the military build-up with German support in South-East Asia; some English-language material included.
Italian GIS Anti-Terrorist Unit Marco Varese. RAIDS-Magazine no 37 December 1994. Collectors Press Ltd 12 Ricketts Street, London SW6 1RU. Description of the Special Intervention Group of the Carabiniero.
The Special Operation Platoon of the Portuguese Republican Guard, Miguel Silva Machada. RAIDS-Magazine no 34 September 1994, pp4-10.
Eurocorps' quest for identity. International Defence Review, November 1994. Overview of history and organisation of Eurocorps and French-German Brigade as the latter becomes operational in January 1995.
Anywhere anytime: rapid-deployment forces and their future, David Miller. International Defence Review Special Report, October 1994. Chapters about the French experience. NATO's Multinational Division. Spain's emerging intervention force, NATO's air and naval options deployment problems and amphibious forces.
Whither South Africa's Warriors? Jane's Intelligence Report no 3 July 1994. Study about the restructuring of the South African armed forces and police after the general election of 1994 with a chapter on the future of the extreme rightwing.
Our lads on LSD Rob Evans. New Statesman and Society 14.10.94, pp20-21. Article about drug tests carried out by the MOD at Porton Down Wiltshire during the 1960s on soldiers. The MOD - disingenuously - claims they were necessary to discover how soldiers could be protected against the drug.
A higher regard for life John Pilger. New Statesman and Society 11.11.94. pp16-17. On the British government's role in arming the world.