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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy by Mark M. Lowenthal
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mark M. Lowenthal

THE ASSASSINATION BAN: A MODERN INTERPRETATION In August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack on targets in Afghanistan associated with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Dick Couch

Author’s Note: Soldiers selected for Phase II who are coming from combat support and combat service support units, like 811’s Sergeant Aaron Dunn, are now being sent to the Special ...
( Category: Military Policy March 25,2014 )
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 )
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore

THE OUD- PLAYER: WASIF JAWHARIYYEH Wasif Jawhariyyeh started to learn the lute – or oud – as a boy, and soon he was the best oud-player in a town that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Gaza in Crisis by Chomsky Noam & Pappe Ilan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Chomsky, Noam & Pappe, Ilan [Chomsky, Noam]

But the gains in security for Israeli towns near Gaza were evidently outweighed by the felt need to deter diplomatic moves that might impede West Bank expansion, and to crush ...
( Category: Canadian March 25,2014 )
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-06 | 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: Iraq War March 25,2014 )
The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—From Ancient Greece to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

On the Brink (December 1950–January 1951) On Christmas Day 1950, six months after the North Korean invasion of the south, Matthew Ridgway landed in Japan. In just half a year, ...
( Category: Military Policy March 25,2014 )
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-23 | Author:Hooman Majd

The parade at the mosque continued. Different groups of men, sometimes even very young boys, were marching past me, each group headed by a flag bearer and each group stepping ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 25,2014 )
Bravo two zero by Andy McNab
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Andy McNab

9 They must have been thousand-pounders. We heard several explosions; the area was getting severely hammered. The pressure waves hit us and the car rattled. The guards cursed. The vehicle ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
Liberation Square by Ashraf Khalil
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Ashraf Khalil

9 The Fall of the Police State Much has been made of the near-obsessive dedication to nonviolence on the part of the Tahrir square protesters. For the most part, that’s ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Robert Fisk

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Planet Damnation . . . war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature. Millions of men perpetrated against one another ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Hourani

PART IV THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800–1939) The nineteenth century was the age when Europe dominated the world. The growth of large-scale factory production and the changes in methods ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
Secret Societies by John Lawrence Reynolds
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-23 | Author:John Lawrence Reynolds

EIGHT THE MAFIA AND COSA NOSTRA WISE GUYS AND BUSINESSMEN NOTHING DISTINGUISHES THE MAFIA FROM OTHER SECRET societies more than omerta, its rigid code of silence. And nothing more clearly ...
( Category: Freemasonry March 25,2014 )
Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber

13 Jihad Within McWorld: “Transitional Democracies” THE PARADOXICAL INTERFACE of Jihad and McWorld is nowhere more in evidence than behind the crumpled iron curtain in the “transitional” or “emerging democracies”—which ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 25,2014 )

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