From Byron to Bin Laden: a history of foreign war volunteers.

摘要

'Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home'. So said James Mattis, the former US Defence Secretary (p. 228). At times, nations have tried to prevent the phenomenon of foreign volunteering. In Britain and elsewhere, there has been legislation over the past three centuries, but it has been selectively used. Even today, there is a distinct difference between how the state and the public view British nationals who help the Kurdish militia compared to those who fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).