Bombs Without Boots
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Bombs Without Boots
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Author : Anthony M. Schinella
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2019-02-19
Bombs Without Boots written by Anthony M. Schinella and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Political Science categories.
Airpower can achieve military objectives—sometimes, in some circumstances It sounds simple: using airpower to intervene militarily in conflicts, thus minimizing the deaths of soldiers and civilians while achieving both tactical and strategic objectives. In reality, airpower alone sometimes does win battles, but the costs can be high and the long-term consequences may fall short of what decision-makers had in mind. This book by a long-time U.S. intelligence analyst assesses the military operations and post-conflict outcomes in five cases since the mid-1990s in which the United States and/or its allies used airpower to “solve” military problems: Bosnia in 1995, Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001, Lebanon in 2006, and Libya in 2011. In each of these cases, airpower helped achieve the immediate objective, but the long-term outcomes often diverged significantly from the original intent of policymakers. The author concludes that airpower sometimes can be effective when used to support indigenous ground forces, but decision-makers should carefully consider all the circumstances before sending planes, drones, or missiles aloft.
Military Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Military Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Military art and science categories.
Ira The Bombs And The Bullets
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Author : A. R. Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Release Date : 2008-10-16
Ira The Bombs And The Bullets written by A. R. Oppenheimer and has been published by Irish Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-16 with History categories.
In this groundbreaking title, A. R. Oppenheimer tells how the Irish Republican Army became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise – and how, after generations of conflict, it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details, and an analysis of the IRA’s mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, Oppenheimer vividly presents the story behind the bombs – those who built and deployed them; those who had to deal with and dismantle them; and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA’s 19,000 bombs were built, targeted and deployed, and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivaled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. Beginning with the Fenian ‘Dynamiters’ in the second half of the nineteenth century, Oppenheimer fully describes and assesses the impact of the pre-1970s bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and England and the evolution of strategies and tactics during the Troubles. He concludes with the decommissioning of an arsenal big enough to arm several battalions – which included an entire home-crafted missile system, an unsurpassed range of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and enough explosives to blow up several urban centres. The author scrutinises the level of deadly improvisation that became the hallmark of the Provisional IRA’s expertise and the ingenuity in its pioneering IED timing, delay and disguise technologies, and follows the arms race it carried on with the British Army and security services in a long war of mutual assured disruption. He also provides an insight into the bombing equipment and guns in the vast IRA inventory held at Irish Police HQ in Dublin.
Products And Priorities
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Author : United States. War Production Board. Division of Budget Administration
language : en
Publisher:
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Products And Priorities written by United States. War Production Board. Division of Budget Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Tactical Air Power And The Vietnam War
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Author : Phil Haun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-30
Tactical Air Power And The Vietnam War written by Phil Haun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with History categories.
A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.
The Oxford Handbook Of Peaceful Change In International Relations
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Author : T. V. Paul
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-05
The Oxford Handbook Of Peaceful Change In International Relations written by T. V. Paul and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Political Science categories.
The discipline of international relations offers much insight into why violent power transitions occur, yet there have been few substantive examinations of why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This work is the first comprehensive treatment of that subject. The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations provides a thorough examination of research on the problem of change in the international arena and the reasons why change happens peacefully at times, and at others, violently. It contains over forty chapters, which examine the historical, theoretical, global, regional, and national foreign-policy dimensions of peaceful change. As the world enters a new round of power transition conflict, involving a rapidly rising China and a relatively declining United States, this Handbook provides a necessary resource for decisionmakers and scholars engaged in this vital area of research.
Clean Bombs And Dirty Wars
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Author : Robert H. Gregory, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Clean Bombs And Dirty Wars written by Robert H. Gregory, Jr. and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with History categories.
After the United States, along with NATO allies, bombed the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic for seventy-eight days in 1999, Milosevic withdrew his army from Kosovo. With no troops on the ground, political and military leaders congratulated themselves on the success of Operation Allied Force, considered to be the first military victory won through the use of strategic air power alone. This apparent triumph motivated military and political leaders to embrace a policy of using "clean bombs" (precision munitions and air strikes)--without a dirty ground war--as the preferred choice for answering military aggression. Ten years later it inspired a similar air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya as a groundswell of protests erupted into revolution. Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars offers a fresh perspective on the role, relevance, and effectiveness of air power in contemporary warfare, including an exploration of the political motivations for its use as well as a candid examination of air-to-ground targeting processes. Using recently declassified materials from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library along with primary evidence culled from social media posted during the Arab Spring, Robert H. Gregory Jr. shows that the argument that air power eliminates the necessity for boots on the ground is an artificial and illusory claim.
Island Conspiracy
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Author : Scarlett Doyle
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2019-06-18
Island Conspiracy written by Scarlett Doyle and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Benjamin Brewster finally accepts that he is burned out as a Boston attorney, and when he discovers that his live-in love interest has been sleeping with one of the firm’s partners, he becomes desperate to recover from his disintegrating life. As advised by his therapist, he gets away from Boston and rents a beach house on Block Island for three months. His vacation is picture-perfect until Hurricane Edwina moves up the coast and Ben is forced to hunker down overnight in a cellar as the category 4 hurricane hits. At first light, he eagerly searches for treasures that the storm blew onto his beachfront. He spies tangled ropes heaped over what looks like a rubber raft and scrambles to his new possession, which turns out to be a prized Zodiac. When he pulls away the debris, he finds a woman sprawled in the bottom. The woman, Mel Yarrow, begs Ben to hide her. Men are looking to murder her because of a secret plot she inadvertently discovered while reading through some papers at work. He finally agrees to let her stay at the beach house. That decision drives him into her deadly world and he becomes a target for murder. Mel is drawn into the mysterious, paranormal world of Block Island. She meets an old woman in a cemetery who has powerful visions of these killers and warns Mel. To survive, Ben and Mel know that they need to stop the execution of the plot before the killers find them.
The Civil War In Bosnia And Herzegovina 1992 95
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Author : Viktor Bezruchenko
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-30
The Civil War In Bosnia And Herzegovina 1992 95 written by Viktor Bezruchenko and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Political Science categories.
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) was the bloodiest and most savage conflict in post-WWII Europe. While numerous books and articles on the subject exist, this book fills an important void by comprehensively addressing the intricacies of the conflict’s political, historic, military, and diplomatic factors. The brutal civil war triggered by the demise of Yugoslavia. Based on documents and eyewitness accounts, the book covers the ideologies, hidden agendas, military operations, covert actions, and diplomacy that resulted in the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995. It also includes the geography, population, and tumultuous history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author convincingly dispels myths related to the war, including pre-planned Serbian aggression, the siege of Sarajevo, the massacres of civilians in the UN “safe areas” of Srebrenica and Žepa, and Slobodan Miloševi?’s role.
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Patents
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Author : United States. Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Patents written by United States. Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Patents categories.