United Nations Peacekeeping after the Suez War
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by Nils Sköld
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230 pages, hard cover, illustrated
ISBN 1-85065-213-9
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The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was set up in November 1956 after the end of the short but historically important Suez war. It was the UN´s first peacekeeping force. Sweden decided to put a contingent at its disposal, and this presented its military staff with problems it had not faced before.
The author, General Nils Sköld (1921-1996), who ended his career as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Army in 1976-84, took part as a junior staff officer in organising the first and second Swedish battalions in 1956-7, and in 1959 served in the sixth battalion as a company commander.
It is thus with special authority he writes the history of UNEF, with emphasis on the Swedish participation with involved a total of 12 000 soldiers. The Swedish experience is extensively analysed.
The principles on which UNEF operated were formulated by Dag Hammarskjöld, and the experience drawn from the operation have been used in subsequent peacekeeping operations. Most of this experience is valid to this day.
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230 pages, hard cover, illustrated
ISBN 1-85065-213-9
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The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was set up in November 1956 after the end of the short but historically important Suez war. It was the UN´s first peacekeeping force. Sweden decided to put a contingent at its disposal, and this presented its military staff with problems it had not faced before.
The author, General Nils Sköld (1921-1996), who ended his career as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Army in 1976-84, took part as a junior staff officer in organising the first and second Swedish battalions in 1956-7, and in 1959 served in the sixth battalion as a company commander.
It is thus with special authority he writes the history of UNEF, with emphasis on the Swedish participation with involved a total of 12 000 soldiers. The Swedish experience is extensively analysed.
The principles on which UNEF operated were formulated by Dag Hammarskjöld, and the experience drawn from the operation have been used in subsequent peacekeeping operations. Most of this experience is valid to this day.