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Author : Alex Abella
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2009-05-04
Soldiers Of Reason written by Alex Abella and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-04 with History categories.
An “entertaining and fast-paced” account of the organization that defines the military-industrial complex—and continues to shape our world today (The New York Times Book Review). The RAND Corporation was born in the wake of World War II as a think tank to generate research and analysis for the United States military. It was a magnet for the best and the brightest—and also the most dangerous. RAND quickly became the creator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy, attracting such Cold War luminaries as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilation—and unquestionably created the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against. In the Kennedy era, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion of Iraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actors such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad. But RAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory, a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system, but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied: religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella shares a “well-researched” history of America’s last half century that casts a new light on our problematic present (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
Summary Of Alex Abella S Soldiers Of Reason written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z with Political Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Henry H. Arnold was a true believer in the power of the Air Force. He was one of only nine people ever to earn the rank of five-star general, and the only one with that rank in the Air Force. He had pushed for an Air Force independent of the Army, and he never wavered in his conviction of the usefulness of maximum destructive power in combat. #2 Arnold was a fanatical swimmer, and he pushed for the Air Force to be independent of the Army. He hired a test pilot named Franklin R. Collbohm to help him establish a new kind of scientific community, and the two men flew to California to meet with Douglas Aircraft boss Donald Douglas. #3 The Air Force was formed in 1946, and it was led by General Curtis LeMay. He was a cold warrior who wanted to develop new weapons, and he was the ideal candidate to lead the organization. #4 The US government contracted out its scientific research to private companies, so that they could create new weapons faster and cheaper.
Soldiers Do Reason Why
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Author : Christopher C. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
Release Date : 1996-03-01
Soldiers Do Reason Why written by Christopher C. Bell and has been published by Dorrance Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Soldiers categories.
Wounded Soldier
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Author : John Steer
language : en
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Release Date : 1997-12
Wounded Soldier written by John Steer and has been published by New Leaf Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shattered physically and psychologically in Vietnam, the author traces his discovery of Jesus fist as savior through the bloodiest battles of the war, and a lukewarm homecoming.Emphasizing the void he felt in a life without God, Steer, a heavily-decorated Army paratrooper, is candid not only about his war experiences, but also in dealing with the sin issue.Believing that God spared him on Hill 875, even with the loss of an arm and other painful injuries, Steer searched for meaning in his life and found it in the Bible.An aggressive foreign missionary and counselor to veterans, he advises politicians and medical personnel who come in contact with wounded war veterans.This is a fast-moving story, told by a man who understands that soldiers in God's army must overcome their wounds and win souls for Christ. Because through the battlefields of war, and the battlefields for our minds and circumstances, we find that by His stripes we are healed.
Military Experience In The Age Of Reason
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Author : Christopher Duffy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-12-20
Military Experience In The Age Of Reason written by Christopher Duffy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-20 with History categories.
First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.
A Soldier S Duty
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Author : Jean Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-07-26
A Soldier S Duty written by Jean Johnson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.
Military In The Age Of Reason
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Author : Christopher Duffy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-09
Military In The Age Of Reason written by Christopher Duffy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with History categories.
War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. How did they come to do it, and why? This volume discusses the brutalities of the battlefield, as well as the lives of the officer and the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement. The book shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.
Guns Of February
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Author : Henry P. Frei
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2004
Guns Of February written by Henry P. Frei and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is an account of the fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eys of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries and other Japanese-language sources.
The Scout Mindset
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Author : Julia Galef
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-04-13
The Scout Mindset written by Julia Galef and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Winner of best smart thinking book 2022 (Business Book Awards) Guardian best books of 2021 'Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read' Tim Harford 'Highly recommended. It's not easy to become (more of) a scout, but it's hard not to be inspired by this book' Rutger Bregman When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a 'soldier' mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalising in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe - and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often we should train ourselves to think more like a scout. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world - which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think. 'With insights that are both sharp and actionable, The Scout Mindset picks up where Predictably Irrational left off. Reading it will teach you to think more clearly, see yourself more accurately, and be wrong a little less often' Adam Grant
Breach Of Trust
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Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2013-09-10
Breach Of Trust written by Andrew J. Bacevich and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-10 with Political Science categories.
A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules The United States has been "at war" in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and veterans and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." In Breach of Trust, bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Among the collateral casualties are values once considered central to democratic practice, including the principle that responsibility for defending the country should rest with its citizens. Citing figures as diverse as the martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the marine-turned-anti-warrior Smedley Butler, Breach of Trust summons Americans to restore that principle. Rather than something for "other people" to do, national defense should become the business of "we the people." Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, Bacevich warns, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy—moral as well as fiscal.