I always used Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy to set up relatively low stakes problems in coalition warfare, before moving to cases like these examined by Luft: Liman von Sanders and Enver Pasha in WWI, Chinese-American alliance against Japan in WWII, Americans in Saudia Arabia in the first Gulf War and the IDF and South Lebanon Army. In each, the relative economic status, cultural ideas about the value of life, place of women, religious taboos and importance of face offered difficulties which were sometimes overcome but often disastrous. Luft is open about the opportunities presented by learning languages and being willing to adjust to culture, but is also realistic about the damage done to a military when asked to bend too far in the interest of an ally.