Killing Hope

Killing Hope
Author: William Blum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2003
Genre: Intervention (International law)
ISBN: 9780864865601

Is the United States a force for democracy? From 1940s China to Guatemala today, Blum presents a study of American covert and overt interference in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and tells the story.

The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965

The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965
Author: Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Office
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

A narrative history and assessment of the early years of Robert McNamara's tenure as Secretary of Defense, including McNamara's relationship with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the transformation of the Department of Defense as a part of Kennedy's New Frontier, and the Pentagon's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs episode, and onset of the Vietnam War along with other major national security events and developments during a turbulent and momentous period of the Cold War. (Fuller description is on the dust jacket flaps.)

"An Honorable Place in American Air Power"

Author: Frank A. Blazich (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Air defenses
ISBN: 9781585663057

"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--