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Book Arms for the Horn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Lefebvre
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-11-23
  • ISBN : 0822970317
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Arms for the Horn written by Jeffrey Lefebvre and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a great power-small power theoretical approach and advancing a supplier-recipient barganing model, Jeffery Lefebvre attempts to explain what the United States has paid for its relations with two weak and vulnerable arms recipients in the Horn of Africa.Through massive documentation and extensive interviewing, Lefebvre sorts through the confusions and shifts of the United StatesÆ post-World War II relations with Ethiopia and Somalia, two primary antagonists in the Horn of Africa. He consulted State Department, Pentagon, and AID officials, congressional staffers, current and former ambassadors, and Ethiopian and Somali government advisers.The story of U.S. arms transfers to northeast Africa is tangled and complex. In 1953, 1960, and 1964-66, the United States entered into various arms provision deals with Ethiopia, spurred by the Soviet-sponsored buildup in the region. Policy changed in the 1970s: Nixon refused a large aid request in 1973, and in 1977 Carter ended EthiopiaÆs military aid on human rights grounds and denied aid to Somalia during the 1977-78 Ogaden War. Reversing this policy, the Reagan administration extended military aid to Somalia despite its aggressive moves against Ethiopia. Changes in U.S. relations and the revolution in Somalia have altered the picture once more.Jeffery Lefebvre concludes that U.S. diplomacy in northeast Africa has been overly influenced by a cold war mentality. In their obsession with countering Soviet pressure in the Third World, Washington decision makers exposed U.S. interests to unnecessary risks and given far too much for value received during four decades of vacillating and misguided foreign policy.Arms for the Horn should interest all concerned with arms transfer issues and security studies, as well as specialist in Africa and the Middle East.

Book Brothers at Arms

Download or read book Brothers at Arms written by John J. Horn and published by Vision Forum. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Treasure & treachery in the Amazon.

Book My Father s Arms are a Boat

Download or read book My Father s Arms are a Boat written by Stein Erik Lunde and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to sleep, a young boy climbs into his father's arms and asks about birds, foxes, and whether his mother will ever awaken, then under a starry sky, the father provides clear answers and assurances.

Book My Papi Has a Motorcycle

Download or read book My Papi Has a Motorcycle written by Isabel Quintero and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.

Book Arms  Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War

Download or read book Arms Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War written by Anne Curry and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Careful, original and wide-ranging study of many different aspects of late medieval military history.' HISTORY The Hundred Years War embraced warfare in all aspects, from the grand set pieces of Crecy and Agincourt to the pillaged lands of the dispossessed population. What makes this book different from previous studies emphasising the great battles is its use of less familiar evidence, such as administrative records and landscape archaeology, to gain a truer picture of the realities of medieval warfare. From a general review of battle tactics, the book turns to examine (at points enlisting computer analysis) a number of issues: the composition of the English army, the management of affairs in Aquitaine, the response in England at large to the war and the consequent propaganda and hardship, and the impact of warfare on local communities. Close study of surviving artefacts - weapons, fortifications - also allows realistic assessments of military and naval experiences. Contributors: ANDREW AYTON, MATTHEW BENNETT, ANNE CURRY, IAN FRIEL, ROBERT HARDY, MICHAEL HUGHES, MICHAEL JONES, BRIAN KEMP, JOHN KENYON, MARK ORMROD, ROBERT SMITH, MALCOLM VALE.

Book The Boy Colonel

Download or read book The Boy Colonel written by John J. Horn and published by Vision Forum. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1836. A mysterious young English soldier known as the ''Boy Colonel'' commands a crack regiment in the snowy wastelands of Siberia. No one knows his history. No one knows his name. The Cossacks want him dead -- but are they the only ones? It seems his worst enemy may wear an English uniform. The Boy Colonel strives to perform his duty, but when that duty becomes mixed he must decide which sovereign is greater -- the king of England, or the God of the Bible. Treachery, intimidation, and deceit block his path. His choice of allegiance may mean the difference between life and death. Is he prepared to risk all to protect his loved ones?

Book The English Reports

Download or read book The English Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cress Watercress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Maguire
  • Publisher : Candlewick Press
  • Release : 2022-03-29
  • ISBN : 1536224553
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Cress Watercress written by Gregory Maguire and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile imagination behind Wicked Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on, and finding community. When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It’s a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what’s left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone’s business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors, and no Papa, ever be home? In the timeless spirit of E. B. White and The Wind and the Willows—yet thoroughly of its time—this read-aloud and read-alone gem for animal lovers of all ages features an unforgettable cast that leaps off the page in glowing illustrations by David Litchfield. This tender meditation on coming-of-age invites us to flourish wherever we find ourselves.

Book American Engraved Powder Horns

Download or read book American Engraved Powder Horns written by Stephen V. Grancsay and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1946-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue deals primarily with the collection of American powder horns and primers formed by J. H. Grenville Gilbert, of Ware, Massachusetts, and generously presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1937. An essay on American engraved powder horns and a résumé of the Gilbert collection precede the catalogue, which consists of detailed descriptions of the individual pieces and notes of genealogical or historical interest. Each horn in the collection is illustrated by a collotype reproduction and, with one exception (an undecorated horn), by a line drawing of the engraved area. An indexed checklist of the collections records the pertinent details of each powder horn.

Book The Revised Reports

Download or read book The Revised Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Horn Family
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-16
  • ISBN : 9781081035235
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Horn written by Horn Family and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show off your last name and family heritage with this Horn coat of arms and family crest shield notebook journal. Great birthday, diary, or family reunion gift for people who love ancestry, genealogy, and family trees.

Book Handbook of Arms and Armor

Download or read book Handbook of Arms and Armor written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knock Knock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Beaty
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2013-12-17
  • ISBN : 0316400947
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Knock Knock written by Daniel Beaty and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.

Book Nine Open Arms

Download or read book Nine Open Arms written by Benny Lindelauf and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing novel with a classic feel, featuring three vividly alive young sisters, an eccentric family struggling against the odds, and the slowly revealed story of a house with a past.

Book Animal Weapons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas J. Emlen
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-11-11
  • ISBN : 0805094504
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.

Book AFRICAN ARMS   ARMOR

    Book Details:
  • Author : SPRING CHRISTOPHER
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
  • Release : 1993-10-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book AFRICAN ARMS ARMOR written by SPRING CHRISTOPHER and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993-10-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using eyewitness accounts of travelers and missionaries to Africa, the oral history of Africans, and the visual evidence of the weapons themselves, Spring builds a comprehensive cultural and ethnographic survey of traditional arms and armor from several centuries ago to the present.