Choice of Force

Choice of Force
Author: David Last
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773585680

Twenty years from now, security issues may dictate that counter-terrorism is more important than operations to secure stability and rule of law. Security at the border, ethnic demography, and the perspective of the next generation will determine what strategic choices Canada will make about special military operations and the elite forces developed to carry out special missions.

Force of Choice

Force of Choice
Author: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Publisher: Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University and by McGill-Queen's University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Contributors, many with practical military experience, argue that strategic planners and political leaders must reconcile the historical reality of special operations with the new circumstances in which countries like Canada must now pursue international security and stability, especially when the line between special and conventional is being redrawn. [This book] considers the historical experiences of several countries to [forecast] the future of special operations and address two crucial questions: Does Canada have a special forces? Can land, sea, and air forces incorporate elements of the special to respond to new threats?"--Publisher's description.

Choice of Force

Choice of Force
Author: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Publisher: Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

Twenty years from now, security issues may dictate that counter-terrorism is more important than operations to secure stability and rule of law. Security at the border, ethnic demography, and the perspective of the next generation will determine what strategic choices Canada will make about special military operations and the elite forces developed to carry out special missions. In Choice of Force military and academic researchers survey what political and bureaucratic leaders expect of special operations and analyse contemporary operations, new challenges, and the factors that will shape special operations in the coming decades.

Police Use of Force

Police Use of Force
Author: Joseph B. Kuhns
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-04-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0313363277

A team of expert contributors provides an in-depth exploration of police use of force, firearms, and less-than-lethal weapons from a dozen countries across five continents. Police Use of Force: A Global Perspective is a fascinating, international exploration of police use of force, firearms, and less-than-lethal weapons in nations around the world. The book is comprised of three sections: the first focuses on the use of force generally, the second explores firearms and deadly force, and the final section considers less-than-lethal weapons, including pepper spray, TASERs, and other emerging technologies currently on the horizon. The essays gathered here will provide readers with an understanding of the vast differences in how police use force in various countries, as well as why police use force differently under different forms of government. Topics covered include use-of-force definitions, training procedures, policy issues, abuse of police authority, use of force during interrogations, and the use of firearms by armed and unarmed police forces. Finally, there is an essay focusing on how shooting and killing a suspect impacts an officer in the months and years that follow.

It's Your Choice

It's Your Choice
Author: Ronnie Jerome Dufeal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1456798405

This book can change your life. In this book you will discover a number of things for your happy amazing prosperity. You will experience a complete change of attitude. What you discover will amaze you. See life as youve never seen life before. Your self-esteem will dramatically increase. You like me will discover that your positive emotional feelings are a protective shield around you. The natural laws and principles presented here will help you easily solve your problems. They will instill in you the energy of self-motivation. You will come to the awareness that what we do we do for the Experience of it. Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. You will attract people and things of your predominant thoughts, your strongest thoughts. You will realize that you can easily feel proud to own the person you are. Yes you can be proud of the person that is you. You will discover that it is much easier to do things when you are happy. Yes you can easily solve any problem you may have by discovering and applying these natural laws and principles. The book will help you so you could help yourself. The book will program new thoughts in you. Your new thoughts will enable you to do and have things you never thought possible for you. I ask of you two things as you start this journey. I ask that you read with an open mind and be honest and true to yourself. Have the courage to admit certain lack or shortcomings of yours to you. When you do you put yourself in a position to change you. You may not understand or agree with everything in these pages but certain things will ring true. To believe someone or something is special you just have to continue to think they are special. People do just that in everyday life without being quite aware of it. As long as you continue to think they are special you will believe they are special. If you believe they are special you will treat them in special ways. The Breath Method takes away the pain. As you use the Breath Method you will come to later you will notice that it takes away emotional pain. There is a saying amongst teachers. Teachers said that repetition is the mother of retention. The repetition methods I have used in my books have proven to be very successful for retention of knowledge. As you go through the material you will discover this to be true. These laws and principles will make it easier for you to do and have anything you want including money.

The Choice Maker

The Choice Maker
Author: Hamid Rafizadeh
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1480862460

We all feel it. To fit in is difficult; to run away is impossible. The only alternative is to manage, yet something significant is missing. Ancient knowledge has disappeared, as if no one will ever find it, but the divine intervenes, rebooting the current existence into a new and unexpected one. The divine voice unravels the ancient curse of ignorance placed on humans by humans, stretching back to millennia and beyonda primal evil that threatens everyones life unless one listens to the divine voice. But where is that voice? The Choice Maker offers clear ideas about the shocking realities that compel and engage humans to manage force and resources differently in relation to their place in earths different versionsone presently precarious and fleeting, and the other arriving with unseen power and ferocity. Author Hamid Rafizadeh pinpoints the divine voice in the Sermon on the Mount, which is critical to human life, survival, and well-being. The Sermon on the Mount is universal knowledge for everyone, not religious knowledge for select believers, and it can reveal to us a truth about life in both the current blue-skied earth and the new canopied earth that is coming soon. Are you willing to go on a profound journey? The one crucial to every humans life? The one recommended by the divine? Probably not, and history is on the unwilling side, yet The Choice Maker insists on showing you the way and the reasons for taking this journey.

The Use of Force for State Power

The Use of Force for State Power
Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 303045410X

This book studies force, the coercive application of power against resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes’ observation that all self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by eliminating the trust that should bind them. In short, they make enemies afraid to cooperate, and now they are doing so in cyberspace as well.

Slow Down by Choice Or Lay Down by Force

Slow Down by Choice Or Lay Down by Force
Author: Trina Pitts-Khalfani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781644843376

Our society tells us that if we are not constantly moving, we are not being productive. Yet often the most productive choice we can make is the choice to slow down-before our hectic lifestyle catches up and forces us to focus on our own self-care as outlined in personal testimonies in the book. In Slow Down by Choice or Lay Down by Force: 7 Keys to Restore Wholistic Balance in Your Life, Trina Pitts-Khalfani outlines the seven steps that lead to a more balanced, healthy life. While contemporary science only begins to recognize that the health of the mind can shape the health of the body, we can and should embrace this truth whole-heartedly. Speaking from over twenty years of experience in health promotion and disease prevention, Khalfani shows us how we can return to the tried-and-true natural health practices that different cultures have been using for thousands of years in order to heal the Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Handbook of Aging and Mental Health

Handbook of Aging and Mental Health
Author: Jacob Lomranz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1998-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780306457500

This comprehensive resource responds to a growing need for theory and multidisciplinary integrative research in adult and gerontological health. Handbook of Aging and Mental Healthbrings together, for the first time, diverse strategies and methodologies as well as theoretical formulations involving psychodynamic, behavioral, psychosocial, and biological systems as they relate to aging and health. Forward-thinking in his approach, Lomranz provides the mental health, adult developmental, and geriatric professions with a single reference source that covers theory construction, empirical research, treatment, and multidisciplinary program development.

Options for Restructuring the Army

Options for Restructuring the Army
Author: Adam Talaber
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Military policy
ISBN: 1428916407

The U.S. Army has seen its missions grow in number and intensity in recent years with the global war on terrorism and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The resulting levels of stress that have been placed on the Army's active and reserve components have generated public debate about whether the Army's present organization is adequate for the roles that the service is playing now and will play in the foreseeable future. At the same time, the Army has begun an extensive restructuring effort, called modularity, that is designed to significantly alter how the service is organized and how it operates in the field. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study - prepared at the request of the House Committee on Armed Services - examines the Army's capability to fight wars, sustain long deployments, and deploy rapidly to overseas operations, as well as its dependence on personnel and units in the reserve component. This study also analyzes eight options for restructuring the Army, each of which would either increase the Army's ability to perform some types of missions or decrease its reliance on the reserve component. The options offer a broad overview of the general types of policy choices and trade-offs that decisionmakers will face when considering the size, structure, and capability of any plan for reorganizing the Army. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.