epub |eng | | Author:Rosa Brooks

Born in Blood We can go further: maybe the apparent permanence and ubiquity of the nation-state is just a mirage. We take it for granted that states are (and ought ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-09 | Author:Dan Zak

PART III RELATIVITY/ UNCERTAINTY Truth is not that which can be demonstrated by the aid of logic. If orange-trees are hardy and rich in fruit in this bit of soil ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Graeme Smith [Smith, Graeme]

I drifted out of touch with detainee issues in Kandahar after finishing my assignment in the Afghanistan in early 2009, although I heard from human rights investigators that they remained ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Terence T. Finn [Finn, Terence T.]

*** As the Royal Navy and its American counterpart fought the U-boats, their comrades in the Allied air forces were engaging the Luftwaffe, the German air force. In 1939 the ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson [Hanson, Victor Davis]

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, ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran [Chandrasekaran, Rajiv]

The amusements grew tiresome after a while. Some staffers retreated to their trailers to watch movies on their laptops. Others grew homesick and despondent. The embassy health clinic doled out ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

A PTS maintenance officer, Captain George Short, drove up in a station wagon with Colonel Morris, whom he’d seen staggering at the top of the hill. Colonel Morris wanted to ...

mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Andrew Bacevich

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Bacevich, Andrew [Bacevich, Andrew]

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Leslie Kean

The Cosford Incident On March 30 and 31, 1993, there was a series of UFO sightings in the UK involving over a hundred witnesses, many of them police officers and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Dick Couch

INTO THE SEA ake your seats, gentlemen. Welcome to Second Phase. My name is Steve McKendry and I will be your class proctor. Do you have a report for me, ...

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 ...

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, ...

mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Maddow, Rachel [Maddow, Rachel]

We are emphatically opposed to any offensive military action. We believe that the UN-sponsored embargo must be given every opportunity to work and that all multinational, non-military means of resolving ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Sheehan, Neil [Sheehan, Neil]

They met in Critic’s ice cream parlor on the Sunday before Christmas, 1943. It was around 3:00 in the afternoon. Mary Jane and her girlfriend, Nancy, always went there for ...