From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:33:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [OT]How to redefine the word "Unilaterally"
> --- Allan Goodall <agoodall@att.net> wrote: The original statement ecompassed two elements: Unilatterally which means 1 (count them, 1) European actor intervening. Not coalition, UN, allied, et al, AND sucessful. > I picked up my copy of Penguin's "Atlas of World Multilat. French and Poles. > - Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethopia), 1935 Whee... Impressive. One. > - Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: although the This was a pan-Euro free for all. Everyone got involved either officially or not. > - Italian occupation of Albania, 1939 I believe I credited that in the thread re: Italian military ability, but at any rate it falls under the general heading of "WWII" even if it predated invasion of Poland by a few months. Two. > - Greco-Turkish War, 1920-22. Don't get me started.[1] That wasn't an intervention, it was self-defense. On the Greek part. > - Irish "Civil War" 1919-21: conflict between Irish How that's a European nation committing a sucessful unilatteral intervention, I don't know. The Brits lost, the Irish weren't intervening anywhere but their own back yard. > - Wars of the "warlords" for Peking in Northern Western Powers implied multilat operations, unless I'm mistaken. > - Britain was involved in China (Shanghai in And so were other people. > - Britain helped put down communist uprising in Uhhh... US got involved in that on the financial and military aid side. > - UN intervention in Cyprus, 1964 (mostly Canadian, UN is definitially Multilatteral. > - 1st Indo-China War, 1946-54: surprised John didn't Unsucessful. > - French involvement in Algerian struggle for Unsucessful. > - Burmese Civil War, 1948-54: British troops were I don't recall any details on that one. So I have to give it to you. > - Guerrilla war in Malaya, 1954-57: British troops Yup. Not bad. That's three. > - Mau-mau campaigns, Kenya, 1952-1954: nationalist Four. > - Uprising in Congo, 1959-60: Belgium sent in Again with the UN. > - Aden, late 1958-62: I'm not sure when Britain Five. Three of which are UK (plus Falklands) and 2 of which are Italy getting froggy during the build-up to WWII. The point still stands. It's rare, difficult, done by 2 states (one of which was loony-fascist at the time). And none since 196-mumble except the Falklands. Which even Brits admit couldn't be done again today.