Author: Gregory Kemenyi Hartmann
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Gregory Kemenyi Hartmann
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309067987
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. A thorough understanding of environmental variability greatly increases the likelihood of mission success. To ensure that naval forces have the most up-to-date capabilities, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has an extensive environmental research program. This research, to be of greatest use to the warfighter, needs to be directed towards assisting and solving battlefield problems. To increase research community understanding of the operational demands placed on naval operators and to facilitate discussion between these two groups, the National Research Council's (NRC) Ocean Studies Board (OSB), working with ONR and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, convened five previous symposia on tactical oceanography. Oceanography and Mine Warfare examines the following issues: (1) how environmental data are used in current mine warfare doctrine, (2) current procedures for in situ collection of data, (3) the present capabilities of the Navy's oceanographic community to provide supporting information for mine warfare operations, and (4) the ability of oceanographic research and technology developments to enhance current mine warfare capabilities. This report primarily concentrates on the importance of oceanographic data for mine countermeasures.

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Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Over 400 total pages ... Now also includes: ANNUAL RIFLE TRAINING DATABOOK M16A4 SERVICE RIFLE/M4 CARBINE WITH RIFLE COMBAT OPTIC (RCO) AND BACK-UP IRON SIGHT (BUIS) and numerous related lesson plans. Summary: NTRP 3-07.2.2 provides standardized handling procedures that are essential for the safe and effective employment of the M9 and M11 service pistols, Mossberg 500 shotgun, M14 and M16 (series) rifles, M203 and M79 grenade launchers, M60 (series) and M240 (series) medium machine guns, M2HB (.50 caliber) heavy machine gun, MK19 (MOD 3) 40 mm grenade machine gun, MK 3A2 concussion grenade, nonlethal weapons and simunitions.

Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The Davy Crockett weapons system consists of two weapons, the XM28 (light weight) and the XM29 (heavy weight)

Author: Sarah Sentilles
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 039959034X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin; Miles paints portraits of detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. In doing so, she wrestles with some of our most profound questions: What does it take to inspire compassion? What impact can one person have? How should we respond to violence when it feels like it can’t be stopped? Praise for Draw Your Weapons “A collage of death, savagery, torture, and trauma across generations and continents, Sarah Sentilles’s Draw Your Weapons is painful to read, hard to put down, and impossible to forget.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “In her dynamic, impressionistic (and cleverly titled) book, Sentilles focuses on language and images–particularly photography–and considers what role they play in peace and war. Eschewing a traditional narrative, Sentilles focuses on two men–one a World War II conscience objector who makes violins, and the other an Abu Ghraib prison guard who paints detainee portraits. In brief, delicately layered pieces rather than a narrative, Sentilles has created a collage that explores art, violence, and what it means to live a principled life.”—The National Book Review “It’s the kind of book that, after reading just half, you have to stop and catch your breath, because reading it changes you, not just in terms of what you know–it changes the way you think and how you feel–so much so that, halfway in, I wanted to go back and start again because I felt I was already a different person to the person I was when I began.”—Turnaround

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs
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Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
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Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
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Category : Assault weapons
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: Jacklynn Lord
Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1462663818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Throw away your throat-slitting SEAL operations and involve yourself in a mission possible. A brainchild of a woman known by the code name Tahoe. There are three simple words behind the letters STC, and they are the cornerstone that thrusts an elite group into today’s political and big business arenas. Called on to defuse high-intensity situations, they have no intention of slitting anybody’s throat, even though they learned how to do it. They’re not spies or secret service and don’t consider themselves killers. They are not civil servants or attachés. There is no supervised rank. They are unique. Group intelligence is their sharpest weapon.