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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 CE and endi...

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... Translated by: C.H. Brewitt Taylor Ebook design by: DW Three Kingdoms Romance of T... ...oms Romance of Three Kingdoms Chapter 1 a... ...er 1 a disruption . But soon Liu Xiu the Latter Han Founder Three Heroes Swear Brotherhood In The Peach Garden;... ...ee Heroes Swear Brotherhood In The Peach Garden; restored the empire6, and Han emperors continued their rule One Victory Shatters Th... ...e over. Now However, the embers the empire is united, and the Yellow Scarves are the onlyof the Yellow Scarves still ... ... now in his service. We shall surely meet and provision them. Big warships were to take horses onagain,” said Liu Bei. ... ...place free from the turmoil of thepartisan struggles. Cao Cao wished to be united with him.As a dutiful son, Cao Cao sent the Governor of Taishan,Ying... ...eriods. Because Jin blocked its way to the east, Qin was shielded from the wars When Han Yin saw Lu Bu, he said, “My master has an in t... ... your ownrelated what the fugitives had said. safety by involving me. But I have surrendered, and as I “I did not think Jiang Wei ...

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...Each chapter is split into three sections: 1) Little preview – some quick facts about the city, about which you are going to read; 2) History – a brief history of the place and the most interesting events ever happened there; 3) Interesting places – the best tourist spots in every UK city. The mission of ...

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...1BRITANNIA: a Modern Guide Through the Ancient Kingdom Text by: Grace ... ...1BRITANNIA: a Modern Guide Through the Ancient Kingdom Text by: Grace Twitter: @the_grac... ... my book. As it is also a borough of London, it would be tough to separate the history and tourism of these two places. I apologise to the dis... ...rk in which I have invested a part of myself. This is a project in which I united all the cities of the United Kingdom because I wanted to prove that ... ...f myself. This is a project in which I united all the cities of the United Kingdom because I wanted to prove that each is worth something. During that... ...Guild. This helped Aberdeen become a wealthy, flourishing city. During the Wars of Scottish Independence, Aberdeen was under English rule. Robert theB... ...n's growth. Instead, it suffered greateconomic losses after the Napoleonic wars. In 1817 the city was on the verge of poverty.Fortunately, it was poss... ...t political and social turmoil in Ireland, as in the restof the world. The United Irishmen wanted to achieve independence from Britain. On June10, Uni... ...he Wars of Scottish Independence took place at the StirlingBridge in 1297 (involving some villages). In the 14th century, the siege of Stirling Castle...

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...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17...

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... Danopoulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear challenge / editors, Karl P. Magyar, Constantine P.... ...oulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear challenge / editors, Karl P. Magyar, Constantine P. Dan... ...inting July 2001 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic fr... ... reflect the official policy or positionof the Department of Defense or the United States government.This publication has been reviewed by security an... ... EssaysIntroduction: The Protraction and Prolongationof Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Charles L. StansiferThe Prolongation of the United States in Vietnam . . . . . 371 Earl H. Tilford, ... ...ations focus on southern African affairs. He currentlyresides in the United Kingdom. Cobie Harris received his doctor of philosophy degree inpolitical... ...clude some 6,630 people who were killed and about 8,000 wounded inconflicts involving Palestinians. Also, the report stated that some 17,415people rem... ... controlled much of BET.12 It alsobrought Malloum to cease-fire conferences involving Chad,Niger, Libya, and Sudan in Sebha and Benghazi, Libya. In th...

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... AIR UNIVERSITY LIBRARY The Vital LinkThe Tanker’s Role in Winning America’s W... ...IBRARY The Vital LinkThe Tanker’s Role in Winning America’s Wars D AVID M. COHEN Major, USAF Fai... ...arch 2001Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCohen, David M., 1965– The vital link : the tanker’s role in winning America’s wars / David... ...ataCohen, David M., 1965– The vital link : the tanker’s role in winning America’s wars / David M. Cohen. p. cm. “Fairchild paper.” Includes bibliogra... ... ISBN 1-58566-088-4 1. KC-135 (Tanker aircraft). 2. Airtankers (Military science—United States. I. Title. UG1242.T36.C65 2001 358.4’183—dc21 ... ...e of theauthor, and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US g... ...David M. Cohen Maj David M. Cohen was born in 1965 at RAF South Ruis -lip, United Kingdom, and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.Graduating in 1987 from Bost... ...bility and air refueling doctrine.The ARCT works those air-refueling missions not involving 44 COH... ...the central planning, scheduling,tasking, and execution agency for all operations involvingAMC forces… The AMOCC [Air Mobility Operations Control Cent...

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...This paper reviews the historical accounts of the Royal Air Force (R.A.F) experiences in air policing during the interwar period, 1919-1939. It analyzes the evidence from the view of operational doctrine and applies an in-depth look at the basi...

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... A HISTORICAL VIEW OF AIR POLICING DOCTRINE :LESSONS FROM THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE BETWEEN THE WARS, 1919-1939 ... ...IEW OF AIR POLICING DOCTRINE :LESSONS FROM THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE BETWEEN THE WARS, 1919-1939 Major Michael A. Longor... ... 1919-1939 Major Michael A. Longoria United States Air Force A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The... ...Longoria United States Air Force A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The School of Advanced Airpower Studies ... ... Air Force Regulation 110-8, it is not copyrighted, but is theproperty of the United States Government. ii ... ...icing was one of the Royal Air Force's most important roles between the world wars.3Great Britain's use of airpower during the interwar period has a s... ... this kind of public cry might not havebeen heeded, but after 1918 the United Kingdom had begun a transformation towardsextended franchise that moved ... ...tion to Great Britain.Consequently, there are two types of legal authority involving military action. One 45considers the ext... ...42.Lipson, Leslie M. “Traditional Objectives and Policies of the United Kingdom,”Lecture at Air War College, 1 September 1954. File K239.7...

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...A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present an alternate interpretation of the history of the United States. According to the auth...

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...1. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress 2. Drawing the Color Line 3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition 4. Tyranny is Tyranny 5. A Kind of Revolution 6. The Intimately Oppressed 7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs 8. We Ta...

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... W A R D Z I N NA People's History of the United StatesPeople's History of the United States ... ... A R D Z I N NA People's History of the United StatesPeople's History of the United States H... ...n of Harper & Row,and Roslyn Zinn. To Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation, for the passage from Ila Abernathy'spoem. To Dodd, Mead & Company, for the pas... ...rmission of thePublishers or a licence permitting restricted copying inthe United Kingdom issued by the CopyrightLicensing Agency Ltd., 90 Tottenham C... ...n of thePublishers or a licence permitting restricted copying inthe United Kingdom issued by the CopyrightLicensing Agency Ltd., 90 Tottenham Court Ro... ...and such trash, and be so hunted that I can neither eat nor sleep. Inthese wars, my men must sit up watching, and if a twig break, they all cryout "He... ...t it: "All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, tomaintain their wars to be defensive." Jennings says the elite of the Puritans wanted th... ...d, dirty, foul. Having dark or deadly purposes, malignant;pertaining to or involving death, deadly; baneful, disastrous, sinister.Foul, iniquitous, at... ...n their labor supply and their way of life,a system both subtle and crude, involving every device that social ordersemploy for keeping power and wealt...

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...dern Commemorative Coinage Acts I. Acts regarding Mints and Assay Offices J. Acts Regarding Notes K. Criminal Monetary Jurisdiction Acts L. The Great Deception & the Duping of America M. Miscellaneous Acts N. Monetary Portions of Title 31 of the United States Code ...

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...54 Gold Coinage Statistics 1793-1902 (in dollars) 57 Appendix C: Reports 60 Superintendent Robert Morris’ 1782 Report 61 PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING THE COINAGE OF GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER. 66 Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston’s April 8, 1786 Report 69 April 8, 1786 72 Thomas Jefferson’s 1791 Report 74 Alexander Hamilton’s January 1791 Report 79 Appendix D: Primar...

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...This history continues the story of United States Air Force ideas, concepts, and doctrine from the watershed of massive retaliation/flexible response that was occasioned in 1960. The first three chapters of this volume are in effect reprinted from ...

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... 'It. Volume IIIDEAS, CONCEPTS, DOCTRINE: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force 1961-1984 ... ... Volume IIIDEAS, CONCEPTS, DOCTRINE: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force 1961-1984 ... ..., 1971 . Bibliography: p. Includes index. Contents: 1907-1960 - v. 2. 1961-1984. 1 . United States. Air Force-History. 2. United States-Military p... ...h Printing September 2001 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interesto... ...ealistic Deterrence . . . . . . . . 476 Response to the Soviet/Warsaw Pact Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...greater air and sea mobilityfor conventional Army and Marine forces not to fight limited wars but to removethe temptation for Moscow and Peking to att... ...ans ofbringing ourair strikingpower to bear. Carrier airpower can be employed without involving third parties, without invoking treaties, agreem... ... will be to attain the political ends for which the US entered the conflict- normally involving the ending ofhostilities as soon as possible, on fa... ...the B-52."266 NEW FRONTIER: REDIRECTION In that the United Kingdom had expected to purchase 100 Skybolt missiles toexten...

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...This history seeks to discover and record the mainstream of thought within the United States Air Force (and its predecessors) concerning the role to be played by air and aerospace power in a deadly struggle for national survival . It seeks to trace the development ...

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...ce Special Operations US Air Force Special Operations during the Cold War during the Cold War Michael E. Haas, Col, US... ...hael E., 1944- Apollo’s Warriors : US Air Force Special Operations during the Cold War / Michael E. Haas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical refere... ...el E. Haas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. United States. Air Force–Commando Troops–History. 2. Special Forces (Milita... ...s. Air Force–Commando Troops–History. 2. Special Forces (Military Science)–United States–History. 3. Cold War. I. Title. UG633.H32 1997 358.4–dc2... ...cuses in particular on the period between the Korean War and the Indochina wars of1950–79. The Korean War marked the first major use of Air Force spec... ... century spanning the Korean and Vietnam wars. Someone else, somewhere else in our Air Force, h... ... eventually taken over by the Carpetbaggers. In the United Kingdom, the Eighth Air Force In 1945 the Carpet... ...wo mutually supporting plans were devised, both involving 581st personnel. The first aimed at re... ...erets, the B-29 navigator sitting in the ing classified courier missions involving bothbomber’s Plexiglas nose would use the famous material an...

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...Missile defense has become a key factor in US strategic planning. The problem, of course, lies with the stage of current technological development. Mid-course or terminal-phase systems appear closer to feasibility just now, at least theoretically....

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...rent National Missile-DEFENSE PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4 Asia and the US Missile-defense Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Notes . . . . . ...

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...com- mission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines, he returned to Langl... ...25 with a subsequent assignment in December 1928 to attend the Air Corps Tactical School. Retain... ...other three years at Luke Field,Ford Island, and Wheeler Field, Hawaii. Walker returned to the United Statesin January 1941 as assistant chief of the ... ..., equipping,deploying, and employing the Army Air Forces to defeat Germany and Japanshould the United States become embroiled in war. The authors comp... ...mber of enemy fighters. He displayed conspicu-ous leadership above and beyond the call of duty involving personal valor andintrepidity at an extreme h... ...later becomevery instrumental in resurrecting the effort decades later. Star Wars The US missile-defense program and debate from th... ...elopment of a nonnuclear,impenetrable shield to shoot down ICBMs. While derisively called“Star Wars” by critics, much of the defense establishmentjump... ...e CountriesIntercontinental/Intermediate Range Known: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom,(ICBM/IRBM) United States(Land... ...D programs in return for international support and se-curity guarantees. The “Six Party” talks involving North Korea,South Korea, Russia, China, Japan...

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...This study examines the history of technology and sovereignty, which reveals a model for the evolution of international law. Specifically, the history of sea, air, and space provides examples on past issues of sovereignty. A three-stage pat-tern...

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.... . . . . . . 16 3 INFORMATION RELIANCE . . . . . 19 Notes . . . . . . . 28 4 STATUS QUO—CYBERLITIGATION . . . . . 31 Notes . . . . . . . 36 5 THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME FOR INFORMATION SECURITY MODEL. . . .39 Notes . . . . . . . 47 6 THE FUTURE . . . . . . 49 Notes . . . . . . . 56...

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...s Reconciling International Law with Information Warfare and United States Security KARL J. SHAWHAN, MAJOR, USAF School... ... School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXWEL... ... School of Advanced Airpower Studies thesis is available electronically at the Air University Research Web site http://research.maxwell.af.mil under “... ...heauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US governme... ...their callfor a separate service and for bomber-friendly budgets. The cold warstarted with a petition for United Nations (UN) control over a world nu-... ...e differences by peaceful means.3 After World War I, “the war to end all wars,” efforts were made tostrengthen international law to prevent war. Spe... ...ation. Barring a resolution, the Security Council can in­voke measures not involving the use of armed force to encourage compli­ance. “These may inclu... .... Urgent matters,however, may require unilateral action. In situations not involving the useof classic armed force, the mandate for restraint may be t... ... unsupportable. According to Professor Henry Beker,president of the United Kingdom’s Institute of Mathematics and Its Appli­cations, the agreement has...

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...None before Prof. John Norton Moore has argued the value of democratic principles in deterrence and conflict avoidance. In this important book, Dr. Gary Sharp analyzes the concepts in Moore’s seminal work The War Puzzle (2005), which describes Moore’s incentive theory of...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 2 CONVENTIONAL THEORIES OF WAR AND WAR AVOIDANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Conventional Thinking on the Cause of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Conventional Approaches to War Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Deterrence as a Tool of War Avoid...

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...lied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of ... ...heauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US governme... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi PREFACE... ...is critical to an understanding of those foreignpolicy strategies that the United States and other democraticnations must embrace as they attempt to r... ... well as to indexor quantify deterrence factors. This study concludes that warsand their attendant human misery begin in the minds of na-tional leader... ...ity as described byPres. Dwight Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship LIBERAL DEMOCRACYlaunched, every rocket fired... ...ithrestricted democratic practices such as the United States andthe United Kingdom numbered only 25 and accounted for only 2.4 percent of the world’s ... ...al system.57 In applying these criteriato approximately 71 interstate wars involving a total of nearly270 participants since 1815, he concludes that i... ...mes, cycles upward in mutual learning and successiveadjustment, each cycle involving deeper cooperation and milderconflict, thus metaphorically creati...

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... mission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines, he returned ... ... with a subsequent assignment in December 1928 to attend the Air Corps Tactical School. ... ...and another three years at Luke Field, Ford Island, and Wheeler Field, Hawaii. Walker returned to the United States in January 1... ...pping, deploying, and employing the Army Air Forces to defeat Germany and Japan should the United States become embroiled in war... ...ing number of enemy fighters. He displayed conspicu- ous leadership above and beyond the call of duty involving personal valor and ... ... QDR of 1997 reaffirmed the force-sizing construct of fighting and winning two overlapping major theater wars. At that time, the DOD r... ...a war might occur. This concept recognized that it was not enough to plan for large conventional wars in distant theaters. Instead, ... ... review of 2006. Military officers from some of America’s closest allies, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, parti... ...n, France, and Germany.13 In the past, OSD also consulted with represen- tatives from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, th...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings amo...

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... AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Livin... ...iful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions o... ... 317 CHAPTER XXIX.Decline of Buccaneering. -- Effects of the wars of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes ... ...rom the south, may have driven animallife towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deepvalleys, hi... ...ht back by themwere obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on theEast Africa coast, and ruled... ... consideration of the fact that, not only have severalcenturies elapsed, but on account of fierce wars which have agitated the Tartan Empire for a lik... ...ral of theseamen died of extreme cold. On the 26th of May following, the three vessels were again united and enteredthe South Sea, but were almost imm... ...nly the beginning of greater indignities,which Cortez had foreseen could not be continued without involving the Spaniards and Mexicans in openhostilit... ...t was a perilous task he desired them to undertake, nothing less than the suppression of a mutiny involvingthree-fourths of the men, of his fleet, but...

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...Technology Horizons is our vision for key Air Force science and technology investments over the next decade that will provide us with truly game-changing capabilities to meet our strategic and joint force responsibilities. The coming decades hold high promise for amazing new capabilities across the air, space, and c...

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...LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . . . . vii FOREWORD BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE AND CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE AIR FORCE . . . . ix PREFACE BY THE CHIEF SCIENTIST OF THE AIR FORCE . . . . xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . xv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . xvii 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . 1...

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...nd Technology 2010–30 Key science and technology focus areas for the US Air Force over the next two decades that will provide techn... ...t two decades that will provide technologically achievable capabilities enabling the Air Force to gain the greatest US joint force effectiveness i... ...US Air Force Chief Scientist Originally released 15 May 2010 by the United States Air Force Chief Scientist (AF/ST) as Report on T... ...iographical references. ISBN 978-1-58566-217-3 1. Aeronautics, Military—Research—United States. 2. Astronautics, Military—Research—United States—His... ...plemade important contributions to it. It is apparent that an effort of thisscope, involving such a large number of people from so many differentorgan... ...tained a broad range of further inputs from site visits, briefings, anddiscussions involving organizations across the Air Force and elsewherein the De... ... military’s consistent dual purpose hasbeen not only to fight and win the nation’s wars but also to protect thenation and its global interests in ways... ... US Air Force.)22 │ Technology horizons ■ Preparing to fight and win the nation’s wars as part of the joint force. ■ Providing military assistanc... ...tegic Studies Institute, US Army War Col- lege, 2004.Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom. Defence Technology Strategy for the Demands of the 21st ...

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...The overseas base planning process reflected the evolution and growing sophistication of American strategic thinking during the tumultuous period from 1942 through 1948. The results of the planning shaped, in many ways, the E...

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...Air University Library Cataloging DataConverse, Elliott Vanveltner. Circling the earth : United States plans for a postwar overseas military base sy... ...ty Library Cataloging DataConverse, Elliott Vanveltner. Circling the earth : United States plans for a postwar overseas military base sys- tem, 194... ...d index. ISBN 1-58566-141-4 1. Military bases, American—Planning—History. 2. United States. Dept. ofDefense—History. 3. Military planning—United Sta... ... implied within are solely those ofthe author and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States AirForce, the Department... ...owers might also join American taxpayers in re-belling against a ring of bases involving “military control of nearlytwo-thirds of the earth’s surface.... ...in the War andNavy Departments only in the somewhat hazy instance of “mat-ters involving departmental policy.” FDR quite likely recog-nized the threat... ... States. If force could beapplied soon against “aggressor nations,” then world wars wouldnot develop and Americans, consequently, would be sparedenorm... ... Ca-bell said, the United States might have to operate from bases inthe United Kingdom, France, Italy, West Africa, and China. Buthe also admitted it ... ...er their territory withindays of the US response to Soviet pressure on Turkey, warseemed likely to some high-level American officials.73 Althoughthe t...

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...Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that affected both interagency processes and policy outcomes during the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) and the early stages of the Bosnia crisis (1993...

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...Τhe connection between the energy policies of various countries with the wars that break out at various parts of the world, i.e. at the Middle East and North Africa etc...

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