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Author | : Linda Robinson |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610391500 |
One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how -- after a decade of intensive combat operations -- special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide. Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds in the mountains and deserts of insurgent-dominated regions, and uses those experiences to show the gritty reality of the challenges the SOF face and the constant danger in which they operate. She witnessed special operators befriending villagers to help them secure their homes, and fighting off insurgents in the most dangerous safe havens even as they navigated a constant series of conflicts, crises, and other "meteors" from conventional forces, the CIA, and the Pakistanis -- not to mention weak links within their own ranks. They showed what a tiny band of warriors could do, and could not do, out on the wild frontiers of the next-generation wars. One Hundred Victories also includes the inside story of the dramatic November 2011 cross-border firefight with Pakistan, which sent the US commander into a fury and provoked an international crisis. It describes the murky world of armed factions operating along the world's longest disputed border, and the chaos and casualties that result when commanders with competing agendas cannot resolve their differences.
Author | : Charlie Jane Anders |
Publisher | : Tor Teen |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250317304 |
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.” Tina never worries about being 'ordinary'--she doesn't have to, since she's known practically forever that she's not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She's also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it's going to activate, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina's legacy, after all, is intergalactic--she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates, it turns out that Tina's destiny isn't quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed--and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian, but Tina....is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war, badly--the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust, and her best friend Rachel, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she'll have to save herself. Buckle up your seatbelt for this thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Lawrence F. O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brendan Simms |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786727225 |
In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies. An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.
Author | : Michael Avon Oeming |
Publisher | : Dark Horse Comics |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 1616551003 |
Not long from now, all that will stand between you and evil are THE VICTORIES: heroes sworn to protect us from crime, corruption, and the weird designer drug known as Float. As one member hits the streets looking for blood, he discovers himself touched by a painful past through the powers of a psychic. Will this trauma cause him to self-destruct or to rejoin the good fight? Collects the five-issue miniseries. * Adult superhero adventure!
Author | : Samuel G. Freedman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991-05-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0060920874 |
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.
Author | : Bevin Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Command of troops |
ISBN | : 9780781810364 |
While studies of the American Civil War generally credit Robert E Lee with military expertise, this account argues that Stonewall Jackson was superior strategist who could have won the war for the South: Had Lee accepted Jackson's plan for an invasion of the North, the South might have surprised and dismayed the Union forces into defeat. Using primary sources, the author reconstructs the battles that demonstrate Jackson's brilliance as a commander.
Author | : John William Gardner |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
At the time of John W. Gardner's resignation from the Cabinet early in 1968 -- a time, in his own words, of dissent and divisiveness -- James Reston of the new York Times credited him with "the calmest voice and coolest mind in American public life." Though he may be calm, he is anything but complacent. He has repeatedly voiced his conviction that "we are in deep trouble as a nation." Mr. Gardner's previous best sellers, Excellence and Self-Renewal, reflect his profound interest in two related themes: individual fulfillment and the renewal of society and men. These interest were deepend and strengthened by his two and a half years as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. As head of the executive department charged with administering the bulk of the federal government's domestic programs, Mr. Gardner dealt with many of the most critical and controversial issues of our time. In this book he deals not only with subjects of immediate concern but with broader and more fundamental questions: How may large-scale organizations be made to serve man rather than diminish him? What are the requirements of leadership in our society? What are the values that represent the best in the American tradition?
Author | : Andrew R. Hom |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198801823 |
Moral Victories is the first book-length treatment of the ethical dimensions of victory in war.
Author | : Sir Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1230 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |