Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
Blundering Into Disaster
Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
Blundering Into Disaster
Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher:
ISBN: 9780747500094
Category : Arms race
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A study of nuclear defence by a man who served as Secretary of Defense during both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He argues that given recent nuclear accidents (Challenger and Chernobyl), we can no longer rely on technical perfection and that systems could fail and lead to disaster.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author: Blundering Into Disaster
Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher:
ISBN: 9783704500809
Category : Arms race
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Blundering Into Disaster
Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
Blundering to Glory
Author: Owen ConnellyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742553187
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a scrambler who never had a plan, strategic or tactical, that did not break down or change of necessity in the field. Distinguished historian Owen Connelly argues that Napoleon was the master of the broken play, so confident of his ability to improvise, cover his own mistakes, and capitalize on those of the enemy that he repeatedly plunged his armies into uncertain, seemingly desperate situations, only to emerge victorious as he "blundered" to glory. Beginning with a sketch of Napoleon's early life, the book progresses to his command of artillery at Toulon and the "whiff of grapeshot" in Paris that netted him control of the Army of Italy, where his incredible performance catapulted him to fame. The author vividly traces Napoleon's campaigns as a general of the French Revolution and emperor of the French, knowledgeably analyzing each battle's successes and failures. The author depicts Napoleon's "art of war" as a system of engaging the enemy, waiting for him to make a mistake, improvising a plan on the spot-and winning. Far from detracting from Bonaparte's reputation, his blunders rather made him a great general, a "natural" who depended on his intuition and ability to read battlefields and his enemy to win. Exploring this neglected aspect of Napoleon's battlefield genius, Connelly at the same time offers stirring and complete accounts of all the Napoleonic campaigns.
The First Century of the Nuclear Age
Author: Robert S. McNamaraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Disaster in Korea
Author: Roy E. ApplemanPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Explains how the Chinese Army drove MacArthur and the U.N. forces out of North Korea, and tells why the Chinese decided to intervene.
The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake
Author: Bruce S. JanssonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231505260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening exposé revealing innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending, among other costly mistakes. Using Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues—and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.
Stalking the Antichrists (1940?1965) Volume 1
Author: George E. LowePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477133992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
It is based on the inspiring "definitions" of the word "introduction" (1651): My actions of "bringing in" a "newly" weapon (since August 1945) "brought into" the world and to its "process" of the application in "war" and with an in-depth "initiation in the knowledge" of "elementary instruction" regarding "Deterrents" and "Deterrence" thereof, which "leads to the knowledge or understanding of " the impact of both fission and fusion "nuclear weapons" on war/politics/foreign policy/strategy and the fate of the Earth/Gaia/God's Creation, thanks to my insights gained "personally" at Grove City College, the University of Chicago, U.S. Navy (Air Intelligence Officer) and State Department (Foreign Service Officer) and herewith presented as my "introduction" to the formal introduction of my halting, but determined attempts to deter a thermonuclear World War III and Armageddon too (1945-2012). Modified from "Introduction" (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition, 1959, p. 1036)