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Author : Phil Miller
Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Keenie Meenie by : Phil Miller
Download or read book Keenie Meenie written by Phil Miller. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.
Author : Molly Dunigan
Release : 2011-02-28
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 411/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Victory for Hire by : Molly Dunigan
Download or read book Victory for Hire written by Molly Dunigan. This book was released on 2011-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing tendency to outsource missions to PSCs has significant ramifications for both tactical and long-term strategic military effectiveness—and for the likelihood that the democracies that deploy PSCs will be victorious in warfare, both over the short- and long-term. She highlights some of the ongoing problems with deploying large numbers of private security contractors alongside the military, specifically identifying the deployment scenarios involving PSCs that are most likely to have either positive or negative implications for military effectiveness. She then provides detailed recommendations to alleviate these problems. Given the likelihood that the U.S. will continue to use PSCs in future contingencies, this book has real implications for the future of U.S. military and foreign policy.
Author : Vijay Prashad
Release : 2022-02-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 784/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Washington Bullets by : Vijay Prashad
Download or read book Washington Bullets written by Vijay Prashad. This book was released on 2022-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. The book contains essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ousting of Evo Morales in Bolivia. Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.
Author : Andrew Lambert
Release : 2018-11-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 902/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seapower States by : Andrew Lambert
Download or read book Seapower States written by Andrew Lambert. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating geopolitical chronicle . . . A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called ‘the watery part of the world.’” —The Wall Street Journal In this volume, one of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states. Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812—winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal—turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as “seapowers” informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline. Recognizing that the United States and China are modern naval powers—rather than seapowers—is essential to understanding current affairs, as well as the long-term trends in world history. This volume is a highly original “big think” analysis of five states whose success—and eventual failure—is a subject of enduring interest, by a scholar at the top of his game. “An intriguing series of stories of communities thinking seriously about how to stand their own ground when outpowered, how to do so in ways that are consistent with their values, and sometimes how to negotiate the descent from being a great power when the cards just aren’t in their favor any more. These are timely questions.” —Times Higher Education Supplement “Lambert is, without a doubt, the most insightful naval historian writing today.” —The Times
Author : Ann Hagedorn
Release : 2022-06-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sleeper Agent by : Ann Hagedorn
Download or read book Sleeper Agent written by Ann Hagedorn. This book was released on 2022-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
