Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-06 | Author:Chandrasekaran, Rajiv [Chandrasekaran, Rajiv]

When the CPA’s bean counters had begun assembling a national budget for Iraq, they discovered that the country’s income, almost all of which came from oil sales, was nowhere near ...
( Category: Military August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-24 | Author:Howard, Michael [Howard, Michael]

For the solution, Falkenhayn turned to the method that he had already used so successfully in the east: attrition. France should be quite literally bled to death, through the destruction ...
( Category: World War I August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

THE BATTLE OF TARMIYAH As the new American outposts proliferated, they did appear to draw some of al Qaeda’s firepower away from civilians. The more remote stations were especially enticing. ...
( Category: United States August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

“Whores of War” Regardless of the controversy that later erupted over the various contractual relationships, the original contract between Blackwater/Regency and ESS, signed March 8, 2004, called for “a minimum ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Harms, Gregory & Ferry, Todd M. [Harms, Gregory]

THE PLO AND PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM, PART II Throughout the 1970s the PLO grew in reputation and recognition. Though still fractured and heterogeneous, Arafat attempted to steer the organization toward moderation ...
( Category: History & Theory August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-09-06 | Author:Pappe, Ilan [Pappe, Ilan]

On that same day, the Israeli army had received a large shipment of modern, brand new 0.45-calibre cannons from the Communist Eastern bloc. Israel now possessed artillery unmatched not only ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

37 Driving Anwar Awlaki to Hell YEMEN, 2010—In early February 2010, AQAP leader Said Ali al Shihri, whom the Yemenis had claimed to have killed multiple times, released an audiotape. ...
( Category: United States August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Brandon Webb & Jack Murphy

A ROVER Handheld Device. Courtesy of L3 Communications. It was an unarmed drone equipped with multiple sensors to detect infrared (IR) and thermal signatures. The drone had been redirected to ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]

9 A Graveyard Smell A CIA officer who called himself Abe was one of the first people David Atlee Phillips met after he reported for duty at Langley, Virginia, in ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-16 | Author:Stokesbury, James L. [Stokesbury, James L.]

That left only German East Africa, and here was played out one of those epic little affairs that attract attention far beyond their importance to the larger scene. The colony ...
( Category: World War I August 19,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Mann, Don [Mann, Don]

You survived BUD/S and SQT. You now stand in your dress Navy uniform, in the presence of family and senior SEAL leaders—commanding officers and senior enlisted advisors of Naval Special ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Kaplan

16. The Surge In mid-September David Petraeus received a phone call from General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A consensus was forming among senior officers in ...
( Category: Strategy August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-03-02 | Author:John W. Dower

In the two decades between his ascension to the throne in 1926 and the end of the war, Emperor Hirohito played an increasingly prominent public role as the commander in ...
( Category: Cultural August 19,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Herbert P. Bix

12 THE ORDEAL OF SUPREME COMMAND Confronted with military strangulation by oil embargoes and the choice of admitting defeat in China, thereby abandoning a large part of his continental empire ...
( Category: Japan August 19,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Nester, William [Nester, William]

12 With Malice toward None With malice toward none; with charity toward all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on ...
( Category: Civil War August 19,2014 )