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Author : C. D. B. Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-05-10
Friendly Fire written by C. D. B. Bryan and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with History categories.
The true story of Michael Mullen, a soldier killed in Vietnam, and his parents’ quest for the truth from the US government: “Brilliantly done” (The Boston Globe). Drafted into the US Army, Michael Mullen left his family’s Iowa farm in September 1969 to fight for his country in Vietnam. Six months later, he returned home in a casket. Michael wasn’t killed by the North Vietnamese, but by artillery fire from friendly forces. With the government failing to provide the precise circumstances of his death, Mullen’s devastated parents, Peg and Gene, demanded to know the truth. A year later, Peg Mullen was under FBI surveillance. In a riveting narrative that moves from the American heartland to the jungles of Vietnam to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War march in Washington, DC, to an interview with Mullen’s battalion commander, Lt. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, author C. D. B. Bryan brings to life with brilliant clarity a military mission gone horrifically wrong, a patriotic family’s explosive confrontation with their government, and the tragedy of a nation at war with itself. Originally intended to be an interview for the New Yorker, the story Bryan uncovered proved to be bigger than he expected, and it was serialized in three consecutive issues during February and March 1976, and was eventually published as a book that May. In 1979, Friendly Fire was made into an Emmy Award–winning TV movie, starring Carol Burnett, Ned Beatty, and Sam Waterston. This ebook features an illustrated biography of C. D. B. Bryan, including rare images from the author’s estate.
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Author : Ami Ayalon
language : en
Publisher: Steerforth
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Friendly Fire written by Ami Ayalon and has been published by Steerforth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with History categories.
FINALIST -- The National Jewish Book Award In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for "the enemy" and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose. Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blinded him to the self-defeating nature of policies that have undermined Israel's civil society while heaping humiliation upon its Palestinian neighbors. "If Israel becomes an Orwellian dystopia," Ayalon writes, "it won't be thanks to a handful of theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there motivated by fear and propelled by silence." Ayalon is a realist, not an idealist, and many who consider themselves Zionists will regard as radical his conclusions about what Israel must do to achieve relative peace and security and to sustain itself as a Jewish homeland and a liberal democracy.
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Author : Scott A. Snook
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-19
Friendly Fire written by Scott A. Snook and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-19 with Social Science categories.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged, no bad guy showed himself, no smoking gun was found. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy--a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift"--the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure--to complete his explanation. His conclusion is disturbing. This accident happened because, or perhaps in spite of everyone behaving just the way we would expect them to behave, just the way theory would predict. The shootdown was a normal accident in a highly reliable organization.
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Author : Steve May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Friendly Fire written by Steve May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Children's stories categories.
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Author : Fay Kanin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Friendly Fire written by Fay Kanin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
De tragische dood van hun zoon tijdens de oorlog in Vietnam brengt een radicale ommekeer teweeg in het leven en de opvattingen van een vaderlandslievend Amerikaans echtpaar.
Fratricide In Battle
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Author : Charles Kirke
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-04-26
Fratricide In Battle written by Charles Kirke and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with History categories.
This collection examines the subject of friendly fire through the eyes of international experts in the field.
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Author : Mike Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
Release Date : 2006
Friendly Fire written by Mike Edwards and has been published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Fraser MacLean loses the only girl he has ever loved and spends the rest of his life trying to prove himself as a man. He joins the Army to whet his appetite for adventure and a series of events in war and peace takes him to Afghanistan, and a bizarre plot involving the most powerful man in the world - and the most wanted man in the world.
Amicicide The Problem Of Friendly Fire In Modern War
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language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1982
Amicicide The Problem Of Friendly Fire In Modern War written by and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Friendly fire incidents often disrupt the close and continuous combined arms cooperation so essential to success in modern combat, especially when that combat is conducted against a well armed, well trained, and numerically superior opponent. This study, by presenting selected examples in their historical settings, is intended only to explain a few of the most obvious types of friendly fire incidents and some of the causative factors associated with them. By directing the attention of commanders and staff officers responsible for the development, training, and employment of combat forces to the hitherto little explored problem of friendly fire incidents, this study is intended to generate interest in and solutions for the problems outlined. The scope of this study is limited to incidents involving US forces in World War II and Vietnam, although some evidence is available from other conflicts in the twentieth century has also been considered. In sum, this study can claim to be no more than a narrative exposition of selected examples. Although its conclusions must be considered highly speculative and tentative in nature, this study can be of substantial value to an understanding of the problem of friendly fire in modern war. Chapters one through 5 of this report discuss: Artillery Amicicide; Air Amicicide; Antiaircraft Amicicide; Ground Amicicide.
Friendly Fire In The Literature Of War
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Author : Earl R. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-04-21
Friendly Fire In The Literature Of War written by Earl R. Anderson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus's Persians and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story. It marks the turning point in Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. It is the subject of transformative disclosure in Jaan Kross's Czar's Madman, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and A.B. Yehoshua's Friendly Fire. In some stories, events propel the characters into a friendly-fire catastrophe, as in Thomas Taylor's A Piece of this Country and Oliver Stone's 1986 film Platoon. This study examines friendly fire in a broad range of literary contexts.
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Author : Patrick Gale
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-01-05
Friendly Fire written by Patrick Gale and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-05 with Fiction categories.
Insightful and full of understanding and warmth, Patrick Gale's FRIENDLY FIRE is a richly compelling story of adolescence, sexuality and the lessons we carry forever. 'An intense tale of love, life, intellectualism and passion. Inspirational' Daily Express 'Utterly compelling from first to last' Stephen Fry Sophie, an orphan in love with learning, is sure she will thrive in Tatham's, an esteemed boarding school, having survived years of institutional living. But she soon finds herself lost among its cliques and rituals. Befriending two teenage boys, she experiences the first ache of futile love, then a brilliant teacher's inappropriate attention to one of the trio threatens to destroy them all. Sophie swiftly realizes that there are tougher lessons to absorb outside the schoolroom - of class, sex, families and the emotional disaster they can bring to even the most privileged lives.