Military
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-14 | Author:Robert Stinnett

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Kalee Thompson

David Silveira normally sailed as the captain of one of the FCA’s long-liners, the Alaska Pioneer. He’d agreed to step in—temporarily—as the Alaska Ranger’s first mate. Photograph courtesy of Celeste ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-14 | Author:Bruce Chadwick

VALLEY FORGE Chapter Eighteen THE HARSH ROAD TO A WINTER CAMP The War In the summer of 1777, General William Howe decided to capture Philadelphia—the new American capital city, home ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Three times Philip had avoided what seemed like certain capture, but he had been driven from his homeland. His original fighting force of approximately 250 warriors was down to 40, ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Matthew M. Aid

CHAPTER 6 Men of Zeal Homeland Security and Domestic Terrorism The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —U.S. SUPREME COURT ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker

Striking back at the Al Qaeda message sometimes required American combat skills. One of the most successful efforts was undertaken on the ground in Iraq, in advance of the November ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Craig Shirley

With FDR’s new authority under the War Powers Act granted him by Congress, some Americans may not have agreed altogether with the new policies, but they understood the sentiment of ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:Bruce Catton

Then a new obstacle developed. Porter found himself leading his boats into a narrow channel which was all overgrown with young willows. Helpful Negroes explained that in seasons of low ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:David Sears

At this stage in his career, although still learning and still mastering the chopper’s quirky subtleties, Thorin was largely unfazed by the things that could go wrong—and so often did—in ...
( Category: Aviation March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Melton; Robert Wallace; Schlesinger

The CIA’s other solution to the Castro problem drew TSD into the ultimately objectionable policy of sanctioned assassination. Both TSD’s chemistry branch and its explosive devices branch had the expertise ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

CHAPTER 40 Sinuous and halting, the emergent railway crept up the mountain, moving in contractions and dilations like a vast segmented worm. Alive with the movements of thousands of feet ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

A stunning Army study of Army officers My Lai held one more surprise for Gen. Westmoreland. When Gen. Peers finished his report on the cover-up, he delivered a separate, confidential ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Sean Naylor

BACK at the site of the attack on Harriman’s convoy, the scene was one of devastation. One of Ziabdullah’s fighters lay dead and another dozen had been wounded, one mortally. ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Sheldon Rampton; John Stauber

Arnold Gets a Hummer Politicians and terrorists are not the only propagandists who use fear to drive human behavior in irrational directions. A striking recent use of fear psychology in ...
( Category: Conventional March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-07-05 | Author:Harry Turtledove

George Armstrong Custer stood at the edge of the road, by a sign that had an arrow saying KENTUCKY pointing north and another saying TENNESSEE pointing south. A photographer snapped ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )