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Book The Bureaucrat

Download or read book The Bureaucrat written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Combat Bureaucrat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Stevens
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-04-11
  • ISBN : 9781721851966
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Combat Bureaucrat written by Nicholas Stevens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat Bureaucrat is the thought-provoking, tragic and sometimes darkly funny journey of Bulldog Troop throughout its toughest moments in Afghanistan as told through the eyes of its second in command. This is the true story of my experience as an Army officer assigned to a remote combat outpost in Afghanistan. We were forced to fight two enemies: the Taliban that surrounded us and the command that needed to keep our struggle a secret. Combat Bureaucrat is the story of one American outpost besieged in one of Afghanistan's most hostile areas, Charkh Valley. As the outpost's chief logistics officer and seccond in command, it was my job to hold it all together and keep it running. Charged with the impossible task of putting order to the chaos around me, I fought with highlighters and clipboards as often as I did with bullets and bombs.

Book U S  Army Joint Global Response Force  Combat Commander s Edition

Download or read book U S Army Joint Global Response Force Combat Commander s Edition written by Joint Global Response Force Research Group and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMBAT COMMANDERS: Need New Capabilities & Operational Concepts N-O-W? The JGRF has listened to your requests and shortened our book to ACTIONABLE equipment, weaponry, TTPE3 and CONOPS the Warfighter can act on N-O-W to gain COMBAT OVERMATCH against the enemy.

Book The Fixer

Download or read book The Fixer written by Josh Young and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous private detective and “fixer” to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files. During the height of Hollywood’s golden age, one man lorded over the city’s lurid underbelly of forbidden sin and celebrity scandal like no other: Fred Otash. An ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. vice cop, Otash became the most sought-after private detective and fixer to the stars by specializing in the dark arts that would soon dominate the entertainment industry. Otash was notorious for bugging the homes, offices, and playpens of movie stars, kingmakers, and powerful politicians, employing then state-of-the-art methods of electronic surveillance and wiretapping for a who’s who list of clients for whom he’d do “anything short of murder.” He lied to federal authorities to protect Frank Sinatra from criminal liability; recorded Rock Hudson’s coming out confession to his estranged wife; moved in with Judy Garland to help her get sober; taped President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s tragic love affairs with the greatest sex symbol of all time, and he listened to Marilyn Monroe die. Based on Otash’s never-before-seen investigative files and personal archives, THE FIXER takes readers inside the sensational and nefarious world of the man whose art imitating life inspired the private eye characters portrayed by Jack Nicholson in Chinatown and Russell Crowe in LA Confidential.

Book War  Revolution  and the Bureaucratic State   Politics and Army Administration in France  1791 1799

Download or read book War Revolution and the Bureaucratic State Politics and Army Administration in France 1791 1799 written by Howard G. Brown and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a period of particular importance in the formation of the modern French state. The revolutionary strife and international war of the 1790s had important and far-reaching consequences for the development of democracy and bureaucracy in France. Howard G. Brown's study of changes in army administration in this period sheds light on the dynamic relationship between the spread of political participation, the rationalization of public power, and the build-up of military might. Dr Brown shows how the exigencies of war and the vagaries of revolutionary politics wrought rapid and profound changes in the structures and personnel of army administration. Although loath to see a massive military bureaucracy take root, legislators found that their desire to combine civilian control with military effectiveness made a large central administration unavoidable.

Book The Perceived Role of the Military

Download or read book The Perceived Role of the Military written by M. R. van Gils and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twenty Years of Service

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brandon J. Archuleta
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2020-08-06
  • ISBN : 0700629769
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Twenty Years of Service written by Brandon J. Archuleta and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military pension policies are as old as the republic itself and reside at the intersection of American social, economic, and defense policy. But as the nation’s social and economic circumstances underwent dramatic changes over the last half century, military pension policy remained static, stuck in the personnel and retirement model of the industrial age. This book examines why. Integrating policy history, theory, and practice, Twenty Years of Service provides the most comprehensive examination of US military pension policy in a generation. Brandon J. Archuleta sets the stage with an exploration of the rise, evolution, and transformation of the veterans’ policy subsystem from the American Revolution through World War II. The ensuing theoretical overview explains how the military personnel policy subsystem achieved the autonomy it enjoyed from 1948 to 2018; it also offers a new perspective on autonomous policy subsystems in general, which helps to account for the long-term pension policy stasis. In practical terms, Archuleta explores the role of the successful 2015 Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission as an institutional venue for policy change during the congressional budget battles of the 2010s. Through extensive archival research, illustrative case studies, and field interviews with Pentagon bureaucrats, congressional staffers, veterans’ lobbyists, defense scholars, and journalists, Twenty Years of Service brings the policymaking process to life. Its insights will prove invaluable to policy scholars and defense practitioners alike.

Book In Defence of Lenin

Download or read book In Defence of Lenin written by Rob Sewell and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and the most hated person alive. He was loved by tens of millions who wanted to change society, but hated by the ruling class and their apologists. As the leader of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was a man who changed the world. A convinced Marxist, he created the Bolshevik Party, the most revolutionary party in history. Lenin translated the ideas of Marxism into reality. It is now one hundred years since his death. The bourgeois historians continue to slander him and his ideas. The task of this book is to explain his real life and ideas, and to draw out the significance of Lenin. Given the ongoing capitalist crisis, his ideas are gaining an increasingly wide echo. In so many ways, Lenin is more relevant today than ever before. Over two volumes, this book traces Lenin’s life and explains his ideas, drawing on the colossal heritage of what he actually wrote and did. This book also features an appendix of Krupskaya’s writings on Lenin, a chronology and over 250 images.

Book Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bureaucracy and Democracy  Routledge Library Editions  Political Science Volume 7

Download or read book Bureaucracy and Democracy Routledge Library Editions Political Science Volume 7 written by Eva Etzioni-Halevy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a powerful, independent bureaucracy poses a threat to democracy, it is indispensable to its proper functioning. This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science and public administration. It is designed to guide students through the maze of classical and modern theories on the topic, to give them basic information on the historical developments in this area and the present them with case histories of the actual relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in democratic societies.

Book Lazarus Sourcebook  2  Hock

Download or read book Lazarus Sourcebook 2 Hock written by Greg Rucka and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cull has ended and the world has changed. The Carlyle Family's most implacable foe, HOCK, stands as determined and vicious as ever. Venture to the lands east of the Mississippi, where Doctor Hock has the prescription to cure all of your illsÉif you can survive the treatment.

Book Changing National Priorities

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Subcommittee on Economy in Government
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 772 pages

Download or read book Changing National Priorities written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Subcommittee on Economy in Government and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spying Blind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy B. Zegart
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-02-17
  • ISBN : 1400830273
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Spying Blind written by Amy B. Zegart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegart argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism. She makes the case by conducting painstaking analysis of more than three hundred intelligence reform recommendations and tracing the history of CIA and FBI counterterrorism efforts from 1991 to 2001, drawing extensively from declassified government documents and interviews with more than seventy high-ranking government officials. She finds that political leaders were well aware of the emerging terrorist danger and the urgent need for intelligence reform, but failed to achieve the changes they sought. The same forces that have stymied intelligence reform for decades are to blame: resistance inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the rational interests of politicians and career bureaucrats, and core aspects of our democracy such as the fragmented structure of the federal government. Ultimately failures of adaptation led to failures of performance. Zegart reveals how longstanding organizational weaknesses left unaddressed during the 1990s prevented the CIA and FBI from capitalizing on twenty-three opportunities to disrupt the September 11 plot. Spying Blind is a sobering account of why two of America's most important intelligence agencies failed to adjust to new threats after the Cold War, and why they are unlikely to adapt in the future.

Book Administrative Theories and Management Thought

Download or read book Administrative Theories and Management Thought written by R. K. Sapru and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lazarus Sourcebook Collection Vol  1

Download or read book Lazarus Sourcebook Collection Vol 1 written by Greg Rucka, Neal Bailey, David Brothers, Robert Mackenzie, Gareth-Michael Skarka and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting the first three LAZARUS SOURCEBOOKS, covering the lands ruled by Carlyle, Hock, and Vassalovka, now in one volume. With revised and expanded content, including additions to reflect developments in LAZARUS as the series moves into the year X+67 with ñFRACTURE,î beginning summer of 2018

Book Unlocking the Bureaucrat s Kingdom

Download or read book Unlocking the Bureaucrat s Kingdom written by Frank Gibney and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand. In turn, Japan's faltering fortunes have sent shock waves across Asia, triggering the collapse of economies in South Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries that followed its model for rapid growth and development. While a growing chorus of Japanese politicians, business leaders, and economic analysts blame the current troubles on the misguided policies of Japan's Ministry of Finance, the root of Japan's malaise lies more fundamentally in the contradictory relationship that first made it an economic powerhouse: the combination of businesses that aggressively compete for profits in the best tradition of free enterprise with a government bureaucracy that controls the economy with a heavy thicket of regulation and guidance. And so far, despite ringing declarations of reform, the entrenched bureaucracy shows little willingness -- or ability -- to make the significant reforms that Japan (and its Asian economic disciples) needs to recover. In this book, a cross-section of Japanese, American, and European journalists and authorities in the business, political, and economic sectors examine the problems caused by over-regulation, and offer solutions for reshaping the Japanese marketplace. In Part One, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Vice Minister of Finance Eisuke Sakakibara, and some of America's and Japan's leading experts on the Japanese economy map out the long road to regulatory reform. They analyze the postwar origins of today's bureaucracy, current attitudes toward regulation among politicians and the public, and the changes in both policymaking and mind set that must occur to achieve true reform. Part Two focuses on the effects of over-regulation, using illuminating case studies involving Japan's financial system, insurance markets, non

Book Military Review

Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: