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 Burma Campaign
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DESCRIPTION:SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Rosella Cappella Zielinski\,
  Boston University.\n\nUnder what conditions do coalition partners fightin
 g alongside each other in a war take the next step and field their forces 
 together in battle? While states frequently go to war with partners\, they
  do not always fight side-by-side on the battlefield. Existing scholarship
  focuses largely on the motives of coalition partners to deepen their coop
 eration when considering why such actors fight battles together. We argue 
 that\, for coalition partners to employ their forces side-by-side in comba
 t\, they require the opportunity as well as the motive to do so. More spec
 ifically\, we contend that coalition partners’ logistical capacities—t
 heir abilities to transport and sustain troops and associated equipment to
  the battlefield—exert a powerful influence on the creation of battlefie
 ld coalitions.\n\nWe explore our logic through an examination of the Allie
 d attempts to liberate Burma during World War II. From 1941-1945\, the Bri
 tish\, the British Indian Army\, the Chinese\, and the United States consi
 dered and coordinated their efforts in Burma\, at times fighting alongside
  each other and at times going at it alone. The limited logistical capacit
 ies of American and Chinese forces in-theatre constrained the Allies’ ef
 forts at creating battlefield coalitions\, while British logistical capaci
 ty facilitated the United Kingdom launching solo operations that serviced 
 their strategic individual strategic requirements rather than those of the
  collective. Implications and paths for future research are considered.
LOCATION:E40-496\, limited to MIT Community only\, due to covid restriction
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SUMMARY:Forming Battlefield Coalitions: The Role of Logistics and the Burma
  Campaign
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