Book Description
Discusses strategies for military policymaking and foreign involvements in the post-Cold War era. -- Back cover.
Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684812083
Discusses strategies for military policymaking and foreign involvements in the post-Cold War era. -- Back cover.
Author : Sean Stone
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 163424091X
A sweeping overview of world affairs and, especially having come across the name of William Yandell Elliott, Professor of Politics at Harvard through the first half of the 20th century. Sean found that Elliott had created a kindergarten of Anglo-American imperialists amongst his students, who included Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington, and McGeorge Bundy. Upon further investigation, Sean came to understand Elliott's own integral role, connecting the modern national-security establishment with the British Round Table Movement's design to re-incorporate America into the British 'empire'. Whether that goal was achieved will be left to the reader to decide. However, it cannot be denied that W.Y. Elliott's life and intellectual history serves to demonstrate the interlocking relationship between academia, government, and big business.
Author : David Horner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521765870
Comprehensive study of Australia's role in the peace enforcement operations that developed at the end of the Cold War.
Author : GamerGuides.com
Publisher : Gamer Guides
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1630415693
This guide features a full, beginning-to-end walkthrough written in an "ideal chronological order of events" format. Main quests are interspersed with side quests in the order in which they unlock, although some side quests and arena challenges may only be referenced instead of fully explained. These are typically quests that have you facing a monster you've already fought under similar circumstances that offer no unique reward for completion. For example, after completing most main quests you won't be able to attempt that quest again, but you'll usually unlock an identical side quest allowing you to hunt the same monster in the same area with the same success/failure conditions. Monster strategies will be discussed in detail as you encounter them throughout the walkthrough, featuring elemental and status information and drop lists. The guide also features a fully detailed bestiary for those who just want information about specific monsters unaccompanied by a walkthrough. Trophy/achievement information can also be found in a separate trophy/achievement guide, although be warned: many trophies/achievements in Monster Hunter World are easier said than done. Other features of this guide include: -- Information on crafting/harvesting. -- Side quests that unlock mantles, ingredients and other useful features. -- Field Researcher quests including where to catch rare fish, how to capture small monsters, and where to locate Grimalkynes/Gajalaka. -- Grimalkyne/Gajalaka quests. -- How to upgrade the Ancient Tree/Harvest Box and how to unlock various fertilizers. -- How the Elder Melder works, melding different items and decorations. -- Where to find the Powertalon and Armortalon, and how to upgrade them into the Powercharm and Armorcharm. -- Detailed information on how to unlock Tempered Monsters, the difference between Threat Level 1, 2 and 3 Tempered Monsters. -- Information on Feystones, including drop rates, the differences between the types (Mysterious, Gleaming, Worn and Warped). -- How to get Warrior's Streamstones and Hero's Streamstones.
Author : Rob Steven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349243175
Under the new world order, Japan's international business activity is being organised through tight networks that link banks, industrial corporations and trading companies and that are displacing onto Asia their main domestic problems. Since the US and Europe are refusing to fulfil that function, Japan is forming a new three-zone strategy in which production, marketing and finance are tightly coordinated within each zone but in which there is also an overall shift away from North America and Europe towards Asia.
Author : Francis N. Okpaleke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031477308
This book makes a compelling case that lethal drone deployment as a counterterrorism tool and instrument of statecraft in targeted states engenders far-reaching consequences for US grand strategy. By examining how successive US administrations since 9/11 have deployed drones in pursuant of different typologies of US grand strategic objectives, the book probes the putative political and strategic goals drones supposedly advance, and the impact of its continued proliferation for US for international security. The book provides a powerful base of evidence for policy makers and researchers by pointing to the perils of deployment of drone technology beyond their immediate or short-term objectives. It also explores how non-state actors and authoritarian regimes such as armed groups are harnessing armed drone technologies for their own political and military ends, as well as the underlying implications for US grand strategy and international security at large.
Author : John Baylis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0199289786
Provides a coverage of issues of war and peace such as terrorism, irregular warfare and weapons of mass destruction. This work contains a set of reflections on the role of military power in the contemporary world. It analyzes conflicts from Afghanistan to the Iraq War and looks at the debates about the lessons that can be learned from these wars.
Author : Mark Haynes Daniell
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814483230
This book takes a fresh and critical look at the leading sources of global risk — terrorism, disease, crime, poverty, environmental damage and others — and sets out a practical way to respond far better than we have to each risk area.Drawing from his state-of-the-art knowledge of global strategy as applied in the business world, the author provides analysis, insight, realistic strategies, and hope for a better way forward. His foresight has already been demonstrated. Early in the year 2000, he wrote: “Sadly, the history of mass terrorism is just about to be written. … Even the US is no longer a safe haven from foreign or local terrorists. … US policing has done little to limit the operations of terrorist Osama bin Laden. … The vulnerability of large government and civilian buildings and even military targets has also contributed to an increase in the scale of potential harm.”Without a more informed set of strategies and better global leadership, the catastrophe of 9/11 will only be a forerunner of many more disasters in the future. We can do much better. This important book shows us how.
Author : Christopher S. Collins
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1780522770
Following the development of a "Concept Note" for the World Bank Education Strategy 2020, the World Bank engaged in a series of activities to garner feedback about the strategy. In early 2011, a revised strategy was published, "Learning for All: Investing in People's Knowledge and Skills to Promote Development." This title deals with this topic.
Author : Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0691228035
The description for this book, Moscow's Third World Strategy, will be forthcoming.