Download or read book Wartime Purchasing Procedures written by Research Institute of America, inc and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transforming Wartime Contracting written by Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, America's military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors' support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud. The United States will not be able to conduct large or sustained contingency operations without heavy contractor support. Avoiding a repetition of the waste, fraud, and abuse seen in Iraq and Afghanistan requires either a great increase in agencies' ability to perform core tasks and to manage contracts effectively, or a disciplined reconsideration of plans and commitments that would require intense use of contractors. Failure by Congress and the Executive Branch to heed a decade's lessons on contingency contracting from Iraq and Afghanistan will not avert new contingencies. It will only ensure that additional billions of dollars of waste will occur and that U.S. objectives and standing in the world will suffer. Worse still, lives will be lost because of waste and mismanagement.

Download or read book Wartime Production Controls written by David Novick and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Army and Economic Mobilization written by Ralph Elberton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on Military Procurement written by United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955). Task Force on Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Army and Economic Mobilization written by R. Elberton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the complex tasks associated with Army procurement and economic mobilization featuring the War Department2s business relationships from prewar planning and the determination of military requirements to the settlement and liquidation of the wartime procurement effort.

Download or read book Wartime Food Procurement and Production written by Benjamin Baker and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supreme Command written by Eliot A. Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent, vividly written” (The Washington Post) account of leadership in wartime that explores how four great democratic statesmen—Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion—worked with the military leaders who served them during warfare. The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show—the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen expertly argues that great statesmen do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds—backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist. Yet they faced similar challenges. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. The powerful lessons of this “brilliant” (National Review) book will touch and inspire anyone who faces intense adversity and is the perfect gift for history buffs of all backgrounds.

Download or read book Collaboration written by Timothy Brook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August 1937 led to the occupation of the Yangtze Delta. In spite of the legendary violence of the assault, Chinese elites throughout the delta came forward to work with the conquerors. Using archives on both sides of the conflict, Brook reconstructs the process of collaboration from Shanghai to Nanking. Collaboration proved to be politically unstable and morally awkward for both sides, provoking tensions that undercut the authority of the occupation state and undermined Japan's long-term prospects for occupying China. This groundbreaking study mirrors the more familiar stories of European collaboration with the Nazis, showing how the Chinese were deeply troubled by their unavoidable cooperation with the occupiers. The comparison provides a point of entry into the difficult but necessary discussion about this long-ignored aspect of the war in the Pacific.

Download or read book Historical Studies of Wartime Problems written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peacetime Industrial Preparedness for Wartime Ammunition Production written by Harry F. Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mobilizing U S Industry in World War II written by Alan L. Gropman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Mobilization activities before Pearl Harbor day; education for mobilization; interwar planning for industrial mobilization; mobilizing for war: 1939-1941; the war production board; the controlled materials plan; the office of war mobilization & reconversion; U.S. production in World War II; balancing military & civilian needs; overcoming raw material scarcities; maritime construction; people mobilization: Rosie the RiveterÓ; conclusions. Appendix: production of selected munitions items; the war agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Download or read book Military Procurement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Procurement and Contracting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Military Operations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: