Download or read book Cassandra in Oz written by Conrad Charles Crane and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without being heeded. After the world transformed on 9/11, he warned the Army that it was not prepared to execute stability operations, counterinsurgency, and the eventual reconstruction of Iraq. Crane’s work attracted the attention of Generals David Petraeus and James Mattis, and he soon found himself in charge of a team tasked with creating the groundbreaking Field Manual 3-24/Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5 Counterinsurgency, the very counterinsurgency doctrine he had pleaded for. A unique blend of traditional and modern theory, this manual would prove to be essential to the success of the Surge in Iraq that changed the course of the war. Crane’s account of the creation and implementation of the manual addresses its many criticisms, details what went wrong in Iraq, and explains how the new doctrine was never properly applied in Afghanistan. From the debates over the content to the ways it was used in the field, Cassandra in Oz covers lessons that should be gleaned from years of global war and displays the American military as a learning organization at its best.
Download or read book Adaptation under Fire written by Lt. General David Barno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We have a perfect record in predicting the next war. We have never once gotten it right." In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries must be able to adapt rapidly in order to win. Adaptation under Fire identifies the characteristics that make militaries more adaptable, illustrated through historical examples and the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Authors David Barno and Nora Bensahel argue that militaries facing unknown future conflicts must nevertheless make choices about the type of doctrine that their units will use, the weapons and equipment they will purchase, and the kind of leaders they will select and develop to guide the force to victory. Yet after a war begins, many of these choices will prove flawed in the unpredictable crucible of the battlefield. For a U.S. military facing diverse global threats, its ability to adapt quickly and effectively to those unforeseen circumstances may spell the difference between victory and defeat. Barno and Bensahel start by providing a framework for understanding adaptation and include historical cases of success and failure. Next, they examine U.S. military adaptation during the nation's recent wars, and explain why certain forms of adaptation have proven problematic. In the final section, Barno and Bensahel conclude that the U.S. military must become much more adaptable in order to address the fast-changing security challenges of the future, and they offer recommendations on how to do so before it is too late.
Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Code Name Cassandra written by Meg Cabot and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ladyfish written by Andrea Bramhall and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love blossom beneath the waves of the Florida Keys? Or will the shadows that haunt two strangers prove too much to survive? Scuba diving instructor Olivia Zuckerman loves guiding tourists under the water almost as much as she loves guiding women to her bed. Coerced into picking up a new trainee from the airport, Oz has no idea that her life is about to change in every imaginable way. Daniela Finnsbury-Sterling, Finn to her friends, is trying to break away from an overbearing father, a man intent on making her life fit his plans. Desperate to make her own way, she escapes to Florida to train as a diving instructor. She knows it won't be easy. She knows her father will do anything he can to force her back into line. Unfortunately, she has no idea exactly what anything will be!
Download or read book Incubus My Scandalous Tale of Debauchery Cocktails and the Supernatural written by Sophie Blaine and published by Sophie Blaine. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bootcamp written by Leslie Kelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfield Bootcamp: A two-week cure for a love life gone AWOL… TRAINEE #1: POOR LITTLE HEIRESS There's no way Cassandra Devane can get her love life to stand at attention. She just keeps dating the wrong guys. Her only chance is to face her ex-husband—head-on. And she'll get right on that…once she's out of his bed. TRAINEE #2: THE "IRON LADY" Rebecca Ironwood is a successful businesswoman who's lost touch with men. And everyone else, for that matter. What she needs is just a teeny bit of softening up. And maybe a little extra nudge-nudge with a certain employee… TRAINEE #3: FROM COUNTRY BUMPKIN TO URBAN SOPHISTICATE Barbara Powers knows all about image. She's her own best example. But when she returns to her hometown, all she can think about—and scope out—is the one guy who didn't want to be fixed.
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Download or read book The Cassandra written by Sharma Shields and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cassandra follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Mildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Mildred runs away from home to take a secretary position at the Hanford Research Center in the early 1940s. Hanford, a massive construction camp on the banks of the Columbia River in remote South Central Washington, exists to test and manufacture a mysterious product that will aid the war effort. Only the top generals and scientists know that this product is processed plutonium, for use in the first atomic bombs. Mildred is delighted, at first, to be part of something larger than herself after a lifetime spent as an outsider. But her new life takes a dark turn when she starts to have prophetic dreams about what will become of humankind if the project is successful. As the men she works for come closer to achieving their goals, her visions intensify to a nightmarish pitch, and she eventually risks everything to question those in power, putting her own physical and mental health in jeopardy. Inspired by the classic Greek myth, this 20th century reimagining of Cassandra's story is based on a real WWII compound that the author researched meticulously. A timely novel about patriarchy and militancy, The Cassandra uses both legend and history to look deep into man's capacity for destruction, and the resolve and compassion it takes to challenge the powerful.
Download or read book Cassandra s Daughter written by Joseph Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate influences on Freud are explored, as is the way the discipline he founded has developed and changed.Joseph Schwartz first lays out the late Victorian approaches to mental illness and health and explains the context in which Freud's revolution took place. He traces the evolution of Freud's own thought, then shows how and why the rifts and shifts in the analytic community occurred. He then focuses on Freud's colleagues, rivals, successors and detractors - Jung, Adler, Sullivan, Melanie Klein, Erich Fromm to name a few. For once we see how the different schools and interpretations fit together - how they grew in response to each other, and what separate contributions each pioneer made over the last hundred years to create an effective understanding of the world of human subjective experience.
Download or read book Cassandra the Lucky written by Joan Holub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Cassandra, the newest student at Mount Olympus Academy! She has an amazing talent—but will her new friends believe her? This Goddess Girls story is based on the myth of Cassandra, who has the gift of seeing the future—except no one believes her. Can Apollo, the god of prophecy, help his new crush?
Download or read book Cassandra written by Christa Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassandra written by Christa Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pomo Oz written by Niall Lucy and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas are in short supply and critical thinking is under attack. That's according to Niall Lucy in his latest book, Pomo Oz. Pitting his humour and intellect against the conservative power brokers, Lucy champions the notion that free thought, not free trade, is the basis of democracy. These exciting and provocative essays challenge the reader to engage with the most contentious issues of our times.
Download or read book The Black Mirror written by Lucius Grey and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of war and uncertainty, a young woman is evacuated from her home in London to live with an estranged relative in the countryside. The crumbling estate of her eccentric father holds a secret that has been hidden from the greedy eyes of those seeking powers beyond mortal comprehension. Only a true blood relative of Lord Knightsbridge can gain access to a secret chamber and activate an ancient artefact of great power. Cassandra soon discovers a sinister plot by Nazi sympathisers that could turn the tide of the war against the allies. However, nothing is truly as it seems.
Download or read book Someone to Watch Over Me written by Michelle Stimpson and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tori Henderson is on the fast track in her marketing career in Houston, but her personal life is as slow as molasses. So when her beloved Aunt Dottie falls ill. Tori travels back to tiny Bayford to care for her. Just as Tori is feeling overwhelmed, she re-connects with her old crush, the pastor's son, Jacob, who is as handsome as Tori remembers. Sparks fly between her and Jacob and small-town life starts looking promising. Tori came to Bayford to give, but she just might receive more than she dreamed was possible.
