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Book After Desert Storm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet A. McDonnell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780898759372
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book After Desert Storm written by Janet A. McDonnell and published by . This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most striking features of Operation Desert Storms aftermath was the facility with which American soldiers transitioned from offensive warfare to humanitarian relief. Throughout history our soldiers - and the civilians who accompany them - have been quick to assist populations in need, whether the victims of natural disaster, military operations, or calculated oppression. The increasing number of noncombat military operations in recent years underscores the significance of this rehabilitative role of the American soldier. Not since World War II had U. S. Army soldiers and civilians played as large a role in rebuilding a foreign nation as they did in Kuwait after the Gulf War. After Desert Storm tells the compelling story of how the Army helped to bring a proud but battered country back to life. Our soldiers found themselves performing such diverse roles as repairing police cars, rebuilding damaged power systems, restoring the water supply, and feeding zoo animals. In the process they touched the lives of every Kuwaiti resident, forging bonds of trust and contributing immeasurably to stability in the region. Though immensely successful, the Kuwaiti recovery operation was not perfect; After Desert Storm highlights key lessons learned. The reconstruction of Kuwait clearly demonstrated that post-hostilities activities can be as important as conflict itself, and that military leaders must plan carefully for such a recovery mission if they are to capitalize fully on battlefield success. After Desert Storm illuminates appropriate roles for American soldiers and civilians in a post-hostilities environment. We would be wise to take its lessons to heart. John S. Brown Brigadier General, United States Army Chief of Military History

Book A Sympathetic History of Jonestown

Download or read book A Sympathetic History of Jonestown written by Rebecca Moore and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the People's Temple written with compassion and understanding, with special focus on the surviving family members of two of the victims. This work seeks to dispel the bizarre image propagated by the media.

Book Willie Brown

Download or read book Willie Brown written by James Richardson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented—Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, takes us from Brown's childhood, through his years as Speaker of the State Assembly, to his election as San Francisco's mayor. Along the way we get a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of three decades of California politics.

Book Senate Joint Resolutions

Download or read book Senate Joint Resolutions written by Ohio. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission to Iran

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  • Author : William H. Sullivan
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1981-11
  • ISBN : 9780393333879
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mission to Iran written by William H. Sullivan and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports the dramatic experiences of the last American ambassador to Iran during the revolution of 1978-79. It is an account of the events, the personalities, and the institutions in Iran as seen through the eyes of the man who, at the time, was the senior U.S. Foreign Service career officer on active duty. It is also a story of the policy failures of the Carter administration as viewed from the American Embassy in Tehran.

Book Caribbean Life in New York City

Download or read book Caribbean Life in New York City written by Constance R. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown

Download or read book The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown written by Rebecca Moore and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays by persons who were touched in some way by the mass deaths in Guyana. The volume includes reflections by former Peoples Temple members, insights by psychologists and counsellors, and confessions by relatives vividly reveal what happened to individuals in the decade following November 18, 1978.

Book Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia

Download or read book Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia written by Niels Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the history of the United States-Liberia relations from the early 1820s to 2015, with particular attention paid to the role of the US armed forces. Contrary to most literature on the genesis and development of Liberia, this book demonstrates how US military power has been the primary influence shaping Liberia's history. This includes the role played by the US military in the founding of Liberia, the protection of the country during the European formal colonial era, multiple covert operations in securing US-friendly administrations in Liberia, and direct military interventions when necessary to secure American interests in the region.

Book The Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Sheppard
  • Publisher : Resistance Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781876646509
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Party written by Barry Sheppard and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salvation and Suicide

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  • Author : David Chidester
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2003-10-16
  • ISBN : 9780253216328
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Salvation and Suicide written by David Chidester and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice."

Book There s A Fish In The Courthouse

Download or read book There s A Fish In The Courthouse written by Gary L Wean and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most shocking, explosive revelation ever to strike American people rigth between the eyes. The President's use of secret files against politicians, businessmen, the clergy and just plain everyday American citizens to further his own personal ends. The cover-up of the real reasons for Waco, Ruby Ridge and Oklahoma City and the First Interstate Bank fire in Los Angeles. And not the least, the censorship of the terrifying plots to assassinate then President George Bush and four former Presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, James Carter, Ronald Reagan and their wives with laser weapons. The killings were to take place in the dedication ceremony of Reagan's Library in Simi Valley California. The Presidents and their wives had known too much. And there was the astounding fact that the plotters, one of them was arrested, were also involved in the assassinations of JFK and RFK. But, far more astounding was the fact that the Secret Service released the suspect and killed the investigation. In Washington, D.C., the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the Dossiers, the Secret Files - the Committee members, Senators Joseph Biden, Dianne Feinstein, Strom Thurmond, Howell Heflin, Edward Kennedy, Arlen Specter and others are committing evil acts to cover up their involvements and their part in the horrendous conspiracy to destroy the Constitution and make serfs and slaves of the American people. On December 7, 1945 the author was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy at San Pedro, California. In January of 1946 he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and graduated from the Academy. He worked as a Detective Sgt. for the Ventura City Police Department and an Investigator for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Intelligence Unit. In September of 1966 he became the Chief Investigator for the Ventura County Public Defender's Office until 1970...

Book The Franklin Cover up

Download or read book The Franklin Cover up written by John W. DeCamp and published by A W T, Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book decribes the scandal and public investigation of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in 1988 with revelations of murder, drug trafficking, money-laundering, political cover-up and a nationwide child abuse ring.

Book Sinister Forces   A Warm Gun

Download or read book Sinister Forces A Warm Gun written by Peter Levenda and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this analysis that exposes new connections between religion, political conspiracy, terrorism, and occultism. Readers are provided with strange parallels between supernatural forces such as shaminism, ritual magic, and cult practices, and contemporary interrogation techniques such as those used by the CIA under the general rubric of MK-ULTRA. Not a work of speculative history, this exposé is founded on primary source material and historical documents. Fascinating details on Nixon and the "Dark Tower," the Assassin cult and more recent Islamic terrorism, and the bizarre themes that run through American history from its discovery by Columbus to the political assassinations of the 1960s are revealed.

Book Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform

Download or read book Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Father Who Are in Hell

Download or read book Our Father Who Are in Hell written by James Reston, Jr. and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive work on the Guyana tragedy when on November 18, 1978, one thousand members of the People’s Temple cult killed themselves in a Guyana jungle by drinking poison-laced Kool-Aid. Through the Freedom of Information Act, the author obtained more than 800 hours of tape recordings made in the jungle. Reston chronicles the descent into madness of the cult leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. "Reston's eye is novelistic....His larger purpose is to make the terribly irrational somehow understandable....He does so with the good judgment of a writer willing to avoid certain faddish modes of analysis." —Robert Coles, Washington Post Book Review

Book The People s University

Download or read book The People s University written by Donald R. Gerth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: