Author: W. B. C.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Upton Sinclair. Biographical and Critical Opinions. [By Various Authors. With a Portrait. Signed: W.B.C.].
Author: W. B. C.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired, 1946-1950
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Insurgents
Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451642660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who—against fierce resistance from within their own ranks—changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice. Based on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual officers—Petraeus, John Nagl, H. R. McMaster, and others—many of them classmates or colleagues in West Point’s Social Science Department who rose through the ranks, seized with an idea of how to fight these wars better. Amid the crisis, they forged a community (some of them called it a cabal or mafia) and adapted their enemies’ techniques to overhaul the culture and institutions of their own Army. Fred Kaplan describes how these men and women maneuvered the idea through the bureaucracy and made it official policy. This is a story of power, politics, ideas, and personalities—and how they converged to reshape the twenty-first-century American military. But it is also a cautionary tale about how creative doctrine can harden into dogma, how smart strategists—today’s “best and brightest”—can win the battles at home but not the wars abroad. Petraeus and his fellow insurgents made the US military more adaptive to the conflicts of the modern era, but they also created the tools—and made it more tempting—for political leaders to wade into wars that they would be wise to avoid.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451642660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who—against fierce resistance from within their own ranks—changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice. Based on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual officers—Petraeus, John Nagl, H. R. McMaster, and others—many of them classmates or colleagues in West Point’s Social Science Department who rose through the ranks, seized with an idea of how to fight these wars better. Amid the crisis, they forged a community (some of them called it a cabal or mafia) and adapted their enemies’ techniques to overhaul the culture and institutions of their own Army. Fred Kaplan describes how these men and women maneuvered the idea through the bureaucracy and made it official policy. This is a story of power, politics, ideas, and personalities—and how they converged to reshape the twenty-first-century American military. But it is also a cautionary tale about how creative doctrine can harden into dogma, how smart strategists—today’s “best and brightest”—can win the battles at home but not the wars abroad. Petraeus and his fellow insurgents made the US military more adaptive to the conflicts of the modern era, but they also created the tools—and made it more tempting—for political leaders to wade into wars that they would be wise to avoid.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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