Download or read book Counsels of War written by Gregg Herken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of recently declassified documents, Counsels of War is the first book to trace in detail the deliberations and shifting recommendations of the experts on the bomb from Hiroshima to "Star Wars." Gregg Herken writes about the people whose profession it has been to think about the unthinkable—Robert McNamara, Paul Nitze, Herman Kahn, Bernard Brodie—including their intense rivalries, personal animosities, and often contentious relationship with the professional military. He reveals how the influence of the scientist and strategist has extended well beyond the laboratory and the classroom—in the proposal of Kennedy's advisers for a nuclear "demonstration" and even a "clever first-strike" against the Russians, for example. Counsels of War also shatters certain popular assumptions about U.S. nuclear policy. As Herken points out, while American doctrine stresses "retaliation," U.S. strategists have always planned to "pre-empt" a Soviet attack. Herken shows that the lines in the current nuclear debate were actually drawn at the dawn of the atomic age, and that the experts' technically abstruse arguments have only served to hide from the public the fundamental, deeply held—and quite subjective—differences at the heart of the debate. Since Hiroshima, there has been a growing awareness of the peril created by nuclear weapons, yet the crucial questions that were never adequately addressed in 1945 unanswered today. Given the inability of the experts to confront the essential dilemma of the nuclear age, Counsels of War calls for a new nuclear debate, one focused on American rather than Soviet intentions and that seeks an answer to the fundamental, yet still unresolved question: What are these weapons for?
Download or read book The Georgetown Set written by Gregg Herken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.
Download or read book Counsels of Imperfection written by Edward Hadas and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church has attempted to walk along with the modern world, criticizing what is bad and praising what is good. Counsels of Imperfection described the current state of that fairly bumpy journey. The book is divided into 11 chapters. First comes an introduction to ever-changing modernity and the unchanging Christian understanding of human nature and society. Then come two chapters on economics, including a careful delineation of the Catholic response, past and present, to socialism and capitalism. The next topic is government, with one chapter on Church and State, another on War, and a third that runs quickly through democracy, human rights, the welfare state, crimes and punishments (including the death penalty), anti-Semitism, and migration. Counsels of Imperfection then dedicates two chapters on ecology, including an enthusiastic analysis of Francis’s “technocratic paradigm”. The last topic is the family teaching, which presents the social aspects of the Church’s sexual teaching. A brief concluding chapter looks at the teaching’s changing response to the modern world, and at the ambiguous Catholic appreciation of the modern idea of progress. For each topic, Counsels of Imperfection provides biblical, historical and a broad philosophical background. Thomas Aquinas appears often, but so does G. W. F Hegel. The goal is not only to explain what the Church really says, but also how it got to its current position and who it is arguing with. In the spirit of a doctrine that is always in development, Counsels of Imperfection points out both strong-points and imperfections in the teaching. The book should be of interest to specialists in Catholic Social Teaching, but its main audience is curious newcomers, especially people who do not want to be told that there are simple Catholic answers to the complicated problems of the modern world.
Download or read book Counsel and Strength for the War written by Henry Pitt Cholmondeley (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Must the War Go On Classic Reprint written by Henry Flanders and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Must the War Go On? "We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity that loves courage, but commands counsel. War never leaves, where it found a nation. It is never to be entered into without mature deliberation; not a deliberation lengthened out into a perplexing indecision, but a deliberation leading to a sure and fixed judgment. When so taken up, it is not to be abandoned without reason as valid, as fully, and as extensively considered. Peace may be made as unadvisedly as war. Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly." Burke. " - In a theme so bloody-faced as this, Conjecture, expectation, and surmise Of aids uncertain, should not be admitted." Second Fart of King Henry IV. Act i. scene iii. "Is all our travail turned to this effect? After the slaughter of so many peers, So many captains, gentlemen, and soldiers, That in this quarrel have been overthrown, And sold their bodies for their country's benefit, Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?" First Fart of King Henry VI. Act v. scene iv. "Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs." King John. Act iii. scene i. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History Civil Political and Military of the Southern Rebellion written by Orville James Victor and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counsels of the wise king or Proverbs of Solomon applied to daily life written by Christopher Ridley Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classics of Strategy and Counsel The art of war written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hitopade a Or Salutary Counsels of Vishnu arman in a Series of Connected Fables Interspersed with Moral Prudential and Political Maxims written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran Contra Investigation Testimony of Oliver L North questioning by counsels written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practice of War written by Thomas Robert Bugeaud (duc d'Isly) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hit pade a or Salutary Counsels of Vishnu arman in a series of connected fables interspersed with moral prudential and political maxims translated literally By F Johnson written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Days in August written by Michael D. Gordin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb, they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II. Five Days in August explores these and countless other legacies of the atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they have spawned.
Download or read book The Spiritual Counsels of Father John of Kronstadt written by W. Jardine Grisbrooke and published by RSM Press. This book was released on 1982-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charismatic Russian pastor brought mental, physical and spiritual healing to thousands during the late 19th and early 20th century. Selected passages focus on the purpose and manner of prayer, sin and forgiveness, spiritual life and spiritual warfare, and the last things.
Download or read book Saving the City written by Malcolm Schofield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.
Download or read book World War IV written by Norman Podhoretz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost half a century—as a magazine editor and as the author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of articles—Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central political and intellectual debates in this country. Now, in this provocative and powerfully argued book, he takes on the most controversial issue of our time—the war against the global network of terrorists that attacked us on 9/11.
