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Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Medea Benjamin & Barbara Ehrenreich

The United States is not the only country killing by remote control. A report published in the Washington Post in December 2011 detailed the Israeli military’s use of drone aircraft ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq by John C. McManus
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Evan Wright

SEVENTEEN ° SUNSET ON THE NIGHT of March 27 turns the surrounding fields red. First Recon’s camp by the airfield is spread across three kilometers, with the Humvees on the ...
( Category: Iraq War March 25,2014 )
Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jim Frederick

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The First Battle by Otto J. Lehrack
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Otto J. Lehrack

CHAPTER 8 THE TAKING OF AN CUONG 2 An Cuong 2 was heavily wooded and fortified. Among its twenty-five to thirty huts were bunkers, trenchlines, and pillboxes. Most were covered ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Leckie Robert
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
New York at War by Steven H. Jaffe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Steven H. Jaffe

June 5, 1917, dawned fair and cool in New York. Through the morning and afternoon, thousands of men lined up outside neighborhood schools, barbershops, and storefronts to register for Selective ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Hero of the Pacific by James Brady
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson
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 )
Such Men as These by David Sears
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 )
The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks
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 )
Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

The Russian president’s perspex face shield steamed up as he let out an excited gasp inside his protective suit. He had only visited Chernobyl twice before, and then far from ...
( Category: Greenland March 25,2014 )
The Battle for Iwo Jima by Robert Leckie
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-25 | Author:Robert Leckie

February 24 was a Saturday. It began with the full weight of American firepower falling on the entrenched, unseen enemy. But the Marines of the 3rd Division had to attack ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Scahill Jeremy
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

The story became even more complicated in July 2006, when the Secretary of the Army, Francis Harvey, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman Christopher Shays of the House Committee on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )

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