Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972277
Category : Air bases, American
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972277
Category : Air bases, American
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972277
Category : Air bases, American
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Military readiness management focus needed on airfields for overseas deployments : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Military Readiness, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428970142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428970142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air bases, American
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Air bases, American
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN:
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Military Readiness: Actions Needed for DOD to Address Challenges Across the Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
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Category : Military readiness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Military readiness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 146685314X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 146685314X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
So Many, So Much, So Far, So Fast
Author: James K. Matthews
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ISBN:
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Forging a Total Force
Author: Forrest L. Marion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160943881
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Forging a Total Force traces the evolution of the Guard and reserve from the Revolutionary War-era militias to today's operational reserve, an integral part of the nation's total force. In the early republic, the ideal of a citizen-solider, capable of taking the field with little or no training, predominated. The realities of modern combat slowly made it clear that a more professional force was required, but policy changes failed to keep up with that changing necessity. The nation struggled to provide adequate training and equipment to the reserve component throughout the Cold War until the idea of a Total Force, which integrated regular and reserve components, emerged and was achieved. It wasn't until the defense buildup of the 1980s that the ideal of a combat-ready reserve became reality. The core of this book focuses on what came next, from 1990 to 2011, with particular emphasis on the decade after 9/11. The Persian Gulf War demonstrated both the effectiveness of the reserve and the challenges it continued to face. The post-Cold War drawdown during the 1990s made the smaller active component more dependent on the reserves than it had been since the nation's founding. The reserve component proved itself yet again in the wars following 9/11, but also became strained as it became clear just how much the nation depended on its Guard and reserve. Finally, the authors detail the policy changes made midstream in an attempt to address issues with the overextended force, such as balancing training and deployment with civilian lives and careers, providing health care to reservists, and integrating the active and reserve components. The authors conclude by detailing the issues policymakers will face as they forge ahead with citizen-soldiers serving as an operational force."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160943881
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Forging a Total Force traces the evolution of the Guard and reserve from the Revolutionary War-era militias to today's operational reserve, an integral part of the nation's total force. In the early republic, the ideal of a citizen-solider, capable of taking the field with little or no training, predominated. The realities of modern combat slowly made it clear that a more professional force was required, but policy changes failed to keep up with that changing necessity. The nation struggled to provide adequate training and equipment to the reserve component throughout the Cold War until the idea of a Total Force, which integrated regular and reserve components, emerged and was achieved. It wasn't until the defense buildup of the 1980s that the ideal of a combat-ready reserve became reality. The core of this book focuses on what came next, from 1990 to 2011, with particular emphasis on the decade after 9/11. The Persian Gulf War demonstrated both the effectiveness of the reserve and the challenges it continued to face. The post-Cold War drawdown during the 1990s made the smaller active component more dependent on the reserves than it had been since the nation's founding. The reserve component proved itself yet again in the wars following 9/11, but also became strained as it became clear just how much the nation depended on its Guard and reserve. Finally, the authors detail the policy changes made midstream in an attempt to address issues with the overextended force, such as balancing training and deployment with civilian lives and careers, providing health care to reservists, and integrating the active and reserve components. The authors conclude by detailing the issues policymakers will face as they forge ahead with citizen-soldiers serving as an operational force."--Provided by publisher.