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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book presents a dozen scholarly works about American military and warfare strategy, including the U.S. Army War College Guide to Strategy.Contents: The Grand Strategy of the United States * U.S. Army...
The Discovery of America 1
The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The Discovery of America tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States from the discovery of the New World to the first president of the united states. We have been taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. In fact, the second Monday in October is celebrated...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This report is an analysis of the Army conducted by the Carlisle Scholars Program at the U.S. Army War College. Recent studies of the Army have tended to fixate on the mismatch between the...
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln
Volume 1: 1832-1843
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and ended slavery. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in...
We Fight for Peace
Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed...
The Last Battle of the Civil War
United States versus Lee, 1861-1883
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the...
Prelude to Pearl Harbor
The United States Navy and the Far East, 1921-1931
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1963, Prelude to Pearl Harbor was the first of three books on naval topics for which Prof. Gerald E. Wheeler is remembered today.
“During the years 1921 to 1931 American naval leaders faced a problem in some ways similar to the situation after 1947. They were convinced...
Syria and the USA
Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The conclusion of World War I and the subsequent breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to the
independence of a number of Arab nations and resulted in a Western scramble for roles of
control and influence over them. It was not until after World War I that Syria and the United States had...
Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places
Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Hispanics/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States—but they are far from being a homogenous group. Mexican Americans in the Southwest have roots that extend back four centuries, while Dominicans and Salvadorans are very recent immigrants. Cuban Americans in South Florida have very...
The Long Road to Annapolis
The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation forty-three more years to create a similar school for the navy? The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the...
by Michael A. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
While the United States has had some kind of intelligence capability throughout its history, its intelligence apparatus is young, dating only to the period immediately after World War II. Yet, in that short a time, it has undergone enormous changes—from the labor-intensive espionage and covert action...
History of the United States of America, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Discovery of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Volume two of George Bancroft’s monumental History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent—notable for its Democratic rather than Federalist point of view—covers events in England, France, and the rising colonies, the effect of the revolution of 1688 on different parts of the United States, and the War of Spanish Succession.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book by the U.S. Army examines the use of history by the American armed forces during three distinct periods: the defense reorganization of the late 1940s, the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s, and the years following...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The revolution in military affairs (RMA) is an American concept that frames a debate about the restructuring of American military forces in the period of globalization of the American economy....