United States
epub |eng | | Author:Gideon Rose

NO MORE VIETNAMS Bush administration policymakers had a number of contemporaneous reasons for not wanting to go to Baghdad. Reinforcing those, however—particularly for the uniformed military—was a specter from the ...
( Category: Arms Control November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Neil Sheehan [Sheehan, Neil]

( Category: Nuclear October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Doug Stanton

After dropping off Dean’s team, the helicopter lifted into the air and pushed about ten miles east to deliver Major Mark Mitchell and Lieutenant Colonel Bowers, and the rest of ...
( Category: Afghan War October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Scott McEwen & Richard Miniter

We expect to lead and be led. In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates, and accomplish the mission. I lead by example in all situations. ...
( Category: Military October 16,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:West, Bing

Also on Christmas Day, Rausch, who threw the red smoke to help a wounded comrade on Thanksgiving Day, happened to be at battalion headquarters when General Amos flew in. “You’ve ...
( Category: Veterans October 9,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Fort Sumter to Perryville

( Category: Civil War October 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Cucullu

Communal No Longer Camp VI is an imposing structure, solid and modern. Its clean, crisp lines contrast incongruously with the tropical vegetation that grows just beyond the tall chain-link fence ...
( Category: United States September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Oliver North

“They’re shooting at us! They’re shooting at us!” his copilot yelled as they turned over a small group of mud-brick compounds. “Yeah, I know they’re shooting at us, I can ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage September 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Scott W. Berg [Berg, Scott W.]

Meanwhile, the arrests accelerated among the remaining Dakota near Camp Release, a succession of moments that were terrifying for his Dakota charges and troubling, if no more, to Sibley himself, ...
( Category: Native American Studies September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Elizabeth Norman [Norman, Elizabeth M.]

Terry was also a talented mimic, and her send-ups left the nurses in stitches. The teenager called their captain “Old Maude Davison” and parodied her grumpy ways. She nicknamed Ann ...
( Category: World War II September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

Tig had approached the villa by running up the same brick driveway and across the same grass field as Rone and Jack. He reached the building while his fellow operators ...
( Category: United States September 18,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Victor H. Krulak [Krulak, Victor H.]

The tide at Inchon varied as much as twenty-six feet. Here a tank carrier and a landing ship are high and dry. (Courtesy of Defense Audio-Visual Agency) A final prebattle ...
( Category: United States September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hamilton, Nigel [Hamilton, Nigel]

Poor Harry Hopkins, having handed over the rest of the President’s cable, now witnessed Churchill’s meltdown. Hopkins, sickly but willing to do anything for his revered president, had traveled to ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

On the machine gun range On the second day on the firing range they did not flinch from the guns any more but they fired at the moving target, the ...
( Category: World War II September 7,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:David Kilcullen [Kilcullen, David]

Treat local tribal irregular fighters as local allies, or a local “coalition of the willing,” not as “our new employees.” They began this rebellion because AQ tried to push them ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 27,2014 )