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...on to—and shaping by—arms control. The ability to make these assessments did not blossom overnight. This book captures the story of a young Air Force’s initial (and limited) impact on arms-control negotiations and outcomes. It goes on to document a growing awareness by the service that it was better to help craft the US position than to be only a recipient of the outcome. ...

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.... . . . . . . . . 173 Forrest E. Waller Jr. PART IV Strategic Arms Reductions, 1989–2000 7 Arms Control after the Cold War . . . . . . 191 Thomas S. Mowle 8 Downsizing and Shifting Operational Emphasis for the US Air Force: The Bush and Clinton Years, 1989–2000 . . . . . . . . .227 Thomas D. Miller PART V Conclusion 9 The USAF and Strategic Arms Control . . .251 ...

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... is the ultimate high ground; it is now widely shared and could be hotly contested. Ranging from satellite-based access to Internet services to China’s recent shoot down of one of its own satellites, new capabilities derived from space-based assets are accelerating in terms of quality, ingenuity, and importantly, availability to allies and enemies alike....

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...ng the Process . . . . 29 Nuclear Surety and Deterrence: USAF at a Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Modernizing ICBMs: America’s Nuclear Deterrent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Long-Range Strike: Range, Payload, Persistence—The Essence of Airpower . . . . . 37 Space: The Ultimate High Ground . . . . . . . .38 Cyberspace: Boun...

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... is an interagency, multidisciplinary collection of 12 essays addressing operational and academic perspectives on the elusive concept of an adversary’s “intent”—its indicators and relation to behavior. It is primarily intended for the operational and policy community in the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the Department of Homeland Security, and other U...

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...e Conceptual Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Kathleen L. Kiernan and Daniel J. Mabrey 2 Betting Responsibly: An Effects-Based Thinker’s Framework for Characterizing Intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Harry A. Foster 3 Gauging the Intent of Nation-States and Nonstate Actors: An Operator’s Perspective . 27 Gary Schaub, ...

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... of the population of mankind. Now, Saron Bravewind rules the main Earth city of Orland built from ruin after the ban of technology that once was man?s downfall. With his heart set on discovering life beyond the stars, he finally gets his chance when tragedy strikes as his daughter falls into an incurable illness. Saron mans a flight into space with a faith in finding a hi...

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...story possessing spectacular characters that seem genuine while building the story’s suspense...” A dedicated reader, Pamela Jenewein Romance at H... ...ignite the imagination of her readers. The Eye of Alloria contains two of Lindley’s talents; her artwork enhances the plot, each complimenting the o... ... gave me the true and pure definition of love The Eye of Alloria Saron’s Reign Earth Years 3010 – 3030 I Exit to Al... ... what it meant or who could have created it. No man has ever been beyond the Earth’s atmosphere since the year two thousand and four. Since he was a... ...kled to himself at the notion of paper having value. Especially over another human’s life, as some believe. The time would come when he would en... ...e smiled as he looked upon the result of the union of him and his wife. Saria’s skin was a warm beige tint that glowed under the yellow sun’s ra... ...tian, the Far East, Medieval Europe wove into every aspect of the people of Orland’s lives. This was a great symbol of their progression and he was ... ...self as well as any boy. Maybe even better. You saw how she handled young Brickman’s son.” As expected, the memory of hearing how his daughter o... ...ted a boy who had tried to manipulate her feelings, brought a smile to her husband's face. She knew he was proud to call Saria his. He looked up int...

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...tance to the United States. The conclusion is that this industry provides the kind of high-technology, high-wage jobs necessary to improve the nation’s standard of living in the future. Next, the writer evaluates current military strategies against a set of political imperatives and the reliance each strategy has upon aerospace power. The results of this process show that ...

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...sequences by water saving, flood-controls, de-polllution, re-supplying the watertable, natural environment protection and setting off the environment’s aesthetic value. In the present paper, we describe runoff Best Management Practice (BMP), as well as the limits to its application, the cost, the methodology by which desicions should be taken, maintenance needs etc. In co...

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...illance , and Reconnaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Information and Communication S . . . . . . 49 Joint Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Coalition Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Airpower at War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Irregular Warfare /Counterins...

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...Snow’s and Drew’s newest version has been slightly retitled and almost totally rewritten to reflect radically changed politicalmilitary realities. Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy addresses not only traditional strategy conce...

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...ND DOCTRINE . . . . . . . 205 The Ground Force Worldview . . . . . . . . . . 206 The Naval Worldview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207 The Airman’s Worldview . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208 Worldviews and Military Doctrine . . . . . . . .209 Evolving Worldviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216 Notes . . ....

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...rth. At minus 35 degrees Celsius (C) or so, gaseous lights turn to icebergs and float in the sky. Think of these terms: • Ice lenses • Tesla’s atmospheric friction electrical generation (7 atmospheres) • ‘Root- cellar’ water barrels • Rivers- in- the- sky ...and think of Galileo, the Toronto School Board of Education, Copernicus, and ...GURBIN!...

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... winter caretaker for Ennedai Lake Lodge, Nunavut territory, Kivaliq region. For about five months I had a wood burning stove on the edge of Canada's northern tree line to keep from freezing to death. I was supplied with proper gear to live through temperatures ranging from +15 C to a low of - 55 C, very cold! I was provisioned both at the camp and also upon being flown ...

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... think URANIUM is in the hydrology cycle. … CHAPTER FOUR: I’m baffled by this all… & older bro says “more iodized salt”. … CHAPTER FIVE: Snow White’s Palace for a Disney destination. … CHAPTER SIX: Lynn Andrews needs to move her people- not only because no one I’ve heard of has tried corralling Muskox (twice the iron content of bison). … CHAPTER SEVEN: ICE LIGHTS! and ...

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...o soar, there is poetry as well. This is truly a book for our times by an author whose knowledge and interests are not bound by time. From yesterday’s experience he challenges us to create bright tomorrows. Dare we evade that challenge? Ismail Serageldin Chairman, The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Vice President for Environmentally Sustainabl...

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...ts 170 Level of Current Interaction Universities from MDCs 171 171 7 Integration of Research, Education and Extension 172 Future Changes 173 IARC’s and Universities: The Overall Picture 174 Chapter 8. EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: EXTENSION 179 Origins of Educational Outreach 179 Investments and Inputs 180 Behavioral Change 182 Communication and Technology 184 Research Focus ...

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...d Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brown: US Air Force (ret.), October Dr. Carol Rosin “Dr. B.” Lance Corporal John Weygandt: U.S. Marine Corps, Major A. Filer III: U.S. Air Force Mr. Nick Pope: British Ministry Of Defense Admiral Lord Hill-Norton: Five-Star Admiral, Former Head of the British Ministry of Defense Security ...

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...ones, or if Dillinger could make a clean getaway in a cherry red hovercar. These artists were writing cyberpunk stories from inside The Great Gatsby’s mansion, and they invited everyone to the party. What was missing at the time was a sense of community. We had fashion designers, musicians, architects, directors, sculptors, mechanics, authors… almost every artistic ...

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... then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happened. A huge pack of New York bankers got greedy. And the country was the one to cop it in the teeth when it all headed south.” “Nah. It weren’t that.” “It was too. And everyone knows it. Bankers got greedy, they ...

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...ber function 18 Z. Lv : On the F. Smarandache LCM function and its mean value 22 Q. Wu : A conjecture involving the F. Smarandache LCM function 26 S. Xue : On the Smarandache dual function 29 N. Yuan : A new arithmetical function and its asymptotic formula 33 A. Muktibodh, etc. : Sequences of pyramidal numbers 39 R. Zhang and S. Ma : An e±cient hybrid genetic algorit...

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...art halophytes might play in our ability to raise crops on saline soils. The saline fringes of the oceans constitute a small proportion of the world’s land surface and are not particularly important agriculturally. However, these saline fringes are not the only salt-affected soils on the world’s land surface. Saline soils can also be found in other, often arid, areas - so...

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...he carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and Grailem looked a prime example of his species; a little over two metres tall with a muscular looking body and handsome round face he could pass at a distance as human on any planet. Closer examination of his e...

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...hatever part of the original body remained always fell susceptible to disease, killing the host. Grailem, and several like him, had been Mankind's hope to finally achieve immortality; created in a test tube they had been genetically modified to have no arms and legs in the hope of creating a superior brain. The brain, genetically cross-mutated with an alien species of...

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...e scum they were born in and reaching high levels of society. Understanding of the elements of high culture, its systemic approach to organizing one’s life, can be practiced by virtually everybody. One just needs to want to elevate themselves and work towards that goal, which may involve getting better training and education, moving to a different neighborhood, getting...

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...commodations and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 II How did we get there? 21 5 Marxism 23 6 V. Lenin’s/J. Stalin’s socialism and communism 25 6.1 Russian bolshevik turnover of 1917 and failure of Triple Entente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6.2 Dictatorship of proletariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...