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George H. Douglas - The Golden Age of the Newspape r (1999).jpg

From the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s to the coming of radio news around 1930, the American newspaper celebrated its Golden Age and years of greatest influence on society. Born in response to a thirst for news in large eastern cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, the mood of the modern metropolitan papers eventually spread throughout the nation. Douglas tells the story of the great innovators of the American press--men like Bennett, Greeley, Bryant, Dana, Pulitzer, Hearst, and Scripps. He details the development of the bond between newspapers and the citizens of a democratic republic and how the newspapers molded themselves into a distinctly American character to become an intimate part of daily life.

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United States Army in World War II - Roland G. Rup penthal - Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I; May 1941 - September 1944 (1995).jpg

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A tank without gasoline or a vital part might better be a pillbox. A rifleman without ammunition must use his bayonet or club his rifle. A modern army without food will not long survive. This book tells, among other things, how in the European Theater of Operations the tank got its gas (when it did), how the ammunition went forward, and how the food reached the troops. The necessity of anticipating events so that the needs of men in currentday battle can be promptly and continuously met is evident even to a casual reader. The question whether the modern soldier demands too much on the battlefield is one for all to ponder. Man tends to regard the problems with which he is faced as unique. To guide those faced with the logistic problems of the future, a number of supply principles have been laid down in regulations. This record of World War II experience tells how the principles were actually applied. Those who take the time and trouble to study it will find their efforts well rewarded.

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United States Army in World War II - Roland G. Rup penthal - Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I; May 1941 - September 1944 (1995).pdf

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United States Army in World War II - Roland G. Rup penthal - Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume II; September 1944 - May 1945 (1995).jpg

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This volume completes the bridge between combat and services in the European theater for which the author laid the foundations in Volume I. It is as important a book for combat commanders as for those who have to plan and execute logistical operations. It will leave the nonmilitary reader in no doubt of the enormous weight and complexity of the administrative burden that the Army had to assume to assure the success of its ground and air forces, and the resourcefulness with which it managed that burden. On the other hand, those who have to think about the future can here study a test of the principle of a single service of supply supporting the national element of allied forces under a coalition headquarters and a supreme allied commander.

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United States Army in World War II - Roland G. Rup penthal - Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume II; September 1944 - May 1945 (1995).pdf

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The U.S. Army-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual; U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-24 (2007).jpg

This book is a good read and a solid reference as you read other military and war themed books. This field manual presents a unique collaboration between the Army and Marine Corps in providing doctrine for dealing with counterinsurgency operations. The result of unprecedented collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use, the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction.

An new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, places the manual in critical and historical perspective, explaining the significance and potential impact of this revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S. military doctrine.
An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the aftermath of 9/11 and the new world of international terrorism, The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual will play a vital role in American military campaigns for years to come.

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Michael E. O'Hanlon - Defense strategy for the pos t-Saddam era (2005).jpg

What kind of military will the nation need in the future? --and at what cost? The author argues that America's large defense budget cannot realistically be pared in the years ahead. But given the extreme demands of the Iraq mission, particularly on the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, he suggests how reductions in various weapons modernization programs and other economies might free up enough funds to add at least 40,000 more ground troops to today's military. He also reviews the military lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration's new overseas basing plan, and the arguments for and against a draft.

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Michael E. O'Hanlon - Defense strategy for the pos t-Saddam era (2005).pdf

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Logistics in World War II; Final Report of the Arm y Service Forces (1993).jpg

A Report to the Under Secretary of War and the Chief of Staff by the Director of the Service, Supply, and Procurment Division, War Department General Staff.
As we commemorate World War II from the perspective of fifty years, the names of the "Great Captains" who directed the combat effort are often recalled. Generals Eisenhower, MacArthur, Bradley, Patton, and a host of other field commanders are known to the most casual students of the U.S. Army's role in the war. Yet these men could not have achieved their victories, the Army Air Forces could not have conducted its campaigns, and America's Allies could not have stayed in the war if other men, largely forgotten today, had not been equally proficient as military leaders. This book provides an overview of the accomplishments of those forgotten heroes who helped produce battlefield victories. It is the story of the Army Service Forces, told throuigh that headquarters' after-action report, originally published in 1947.

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Logistics in World War II; Final Report of the Arm y Service Forces (1993).pdf

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James Peck - Ideal Illusions; How the U.S. Governm ent Co-opted Human Rights (2011).jpeg

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach.Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies. A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.

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Laurence H. Shoup, William Minter - Imperial Brain Trust; The Council on Foreign Relations and Unite d States Foreign Policy (2004).jpg

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News stories and academic studies often focus on the options chosen by a president and his officials during a crisis. Central to such decisions, however, are the forces that determine what options show up on the agenda and what options do not even make it to the table. Imperial Brain Trust, published in 1977, is the classic study of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization that has, for decades, played a central behind the scenes role is shaping such foreign policy choices. This private club and think tank, bringing together the New York establishment and the Washington foreign policy elite as well as other powerful forces, took the lead in laying out the plans for post-World II international order. The Council also traced the key guidelines for Cold War intervention and vetted and advised generations of White House officials. Rival think tanks, such as the far-right Heritage Foundation, now have a higher profile. But the Council on Foreign Relations continues to mark the boundaries of what insiders consider to be respectable foreign policy discussion, helping aspirants to policy influence test out their schemes for establishment approval.

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Laurence H. Shoup, William Minter - Imperial Brain Trust; The Council on Foreign Relations and Unite d States Foreign Policy (2004).pdf

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Crowood - Europa Militaria 28 - Hans Halberstadt - Abrams Company (1999).jpg

The tactical debut of the American M1 Abrams main battle tank in NATO exercises in 1982 is said by experts to have been a turning point in armoured warfare: the Abrams proved itself so superior to the opposition in these exercises that the rule book had to be rewritten. In the Gulf War of February 1991, the developed M1A1 variant completely outclassed the Soviet equipment of the Iraqi army, routinely destroying enemy tanks at three kilometres' range. Its thermal imaging sights, laser rangefinder, and fire control computer, coupled with its firepower and state-of-the-art composite armour made it an irresistible opponent. This volume provides an insight into the Abrams, its crew and its operations, illustrated with colour photographs.

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Crowood - Europa Militaria 28 - Hans Halberstadt - Abrams Company (1999).pdf

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Squadron - Aircraft in Action 1208 - Larry Davis - P-47 Thunderbolt (2007).jpg

The P-47 — it was known by several names. Officially the Thunderbolt, it was also called the Jug, 'Bolt, T-Bolt, Juggernaut, and names by the Germans that can't be mentioned. The P-47 was the biggest and most heavily armed single-engine fighter developed during World War II. It was also one of the fastest. Several P-47 experimental aircraft topped 507 mph, and several pilots claim to have flown the big fighter to transonic speeds.
By the end of the war, Republic Aviation Corp. had delivered 15,682 P-47 Thunderbolts in six major production variants — the P-47B, P-47C, razorback P-47D, bubbletop P-47D, P-47M, and P-47N. The record of achievement of the P-47 and its pilots is incredible. Between March 1943 and the end of the war in August 1945, P-47s operated in every theater of war. P-47s served with no less than 132 squadrons in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF), 16 squadrons in the Royal Air Force (RAF), four squadrons in the French Air Force, and an unknown number of Soviet Air Force units. One group of Brazilian P-47Ds was attached to the 350th Fighter Group (FG), one Mexican squadron was attached to the 58th FG, and one Chinese squadron was attached to die 81st FG.
Thunderbolt pilots flew more than 546,000 combat sorties, dropped more than 132,000 tons of bombs, fired more than 60,000 5-inch High Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVARs), and expended some 135 million rounds of .50-caliber ammunition. The toll? More than 9,000 locomotives, 86,000 rail cars, 68,000 trucks, 6,000 tanks, and 60,000 horse-drawn vehicles were destroyed. In the air, the awesome power of the eight .50-caliber machine guns accounted for 7,067 enemy aircraft: 3,752 shot out of the air and 3,315 shot up on the ground. Enemy aircraft shot down 824 P-47s in combat, resulting in a victory ratio of 4.6 to 1 in favor of the Jug pilots. Enemy flak knocked down another 1,642.
The number of aces who flew the P-47 is staggering, with 49 accounted for in the 56th FG alone. The total included the top two aces in the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Francis "Gabby" Gabreski with 28 kills and Bob Johnson with 27. Both pilots flew with the 56th FG. Pilots flying the Jug stood a good chance of coming home, which is what the airplane was designed for.

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Squadron - Aircraft in Action 1208 - Larry Davis - P-47 Thunderbolt (2007).pdf

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Donovan Campbell - Joker One; A Marine Platoon's S tory of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (2010 ).jpg

Campbell decided as a junior at Princeton that attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School would look good on his résumé. Three years later, in the spring of 2004, he was in Iraq commanding a platoon known by its radio call sign, Joker One. Campbell tells its story, and his, in an outstanding narrative of the Iraq War. Joker One counted around 40 dudes: country boys and smalltown jocks; a few Hispanics and a single black. Some were college men with futures; some had pasts they preferred to forget. The battalion was assigned to one of Iraq's worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi, where faceless enemies found shelter among 350,000 Iraqi civilians. Joker One fought from street to street, house to house and ambush to ambush for seven straight months. By the end of the tour, even the Gunny's hands had started ceaselessly shaking, Campbell writes. Faced with urgent life-and-death decisions, Campbell had learned that there are no great options... you live with the results and shut up about the whole thing. For all his constant self-questioning, Lt. Campbell brought Joker One home with only one KIA—a record as impressive as his account.

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Mark D. Sherry - The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping 1987-1997 (2008).jpg

The end of the Cold War initiated major changes in the global security environment that the United States could not ignore. These changes affected security requirements, forces, and missions that had guided the country since the end of World War II. Another “New Look” was needed, one that recognized the uncertainty inherent in the absence of a single rival power. Domestic pressures for a “peace dividend” provided additional impetus for a comprehensive restructuring of the nation’s defenses. Army leaders responded almost immediately, agreeing that a more flexible, more technology-capable ground force was needed, one able to react to a much broader variety of threats and contingencies. But deciding how that goal could be best realized would prove illusive. Dr. Mark Sherry’s The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping, 1987–1997, examines this tumultuous period in depth. The author relates how the efforts of Army leaders to develop options for change were soon overtaken by actions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding Army size, structure, and missions...

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Mark D. Sherry - The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping 1987-1997 (2008).pdf

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Gordon W. Rudd - Humanitarian Intervention; Assist ing the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 (2004).jpg

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Humanitarian Intervention is an operational study of the U.S.-led relief effort PROVIDE COMFORT, hastily organized in the spring of 1991 in response to the international outcry to stop the suffering and dying of the Iraqi Kurds who had been brutally suppressed in the aftermath of DESERT STORM and had fled across a mountainous border into Turkey. Gordon W. Rudd documents and describes this challenging operation involving joint and multinational forces. His study validates the capacity of military forces, well trained for war, not only to adapt quickly for humanitarian relief missions without specialized preparation but also to work alongside civilian relief agencies attempting to assist the refugees, requiring significant cooperation between the two groups. Today the potential of the new round of military-led peace operations to reduce turmoil and conflict-and, in effect, contribute to shaping the international environment-is significant, and soldiers now deployed in distant lands amidst unfamiliar people in the service of their nation will find Rudd's instructive perspective and record of the Army's experience invaluable.

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Gordon W. Rudd - Humanitarian Intervention; Assist ing the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 (2004).pdf

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Barry Cushman - Rethinking the New Deal Court; The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (1998).jpg

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine. In this view, the impetus for such a dramatic reversal was provided by external political pressures manifested in FDR's landslide victory in the 1936 election, and by the subsequent Court-packing crisis. Author Barry Cushman, by contrast, discounts the role that political pressure played in securing this "constitutional revolution." Instead, he reorients study of the New Deal Court by focusing attention on the internal dynamics of doctrinal development and the role of New Dealers in seizing opportunities presented by doctrinal change.

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Barry Cushman - Rethinking the New Deal Court; The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (1998).pdf

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Osprey - Air Combat - David A. Anderton - North Am erican F-100 Super Sabre (1987).jpg

The North American F-ioo Super Sabre—the Hun, familiarly—was the first supersonic aircraft in the inventory of the United States Air Force. Designed for an air superiority mission, it was the first of the Century series, a group of aircraft developed for the US AF as fighters, interceptors, and fighter-bombers.
It originated in a time-honoured, evolutionary manner, within the NAA organization. Company engineers studied ways to modify the F-86 Sabre, then barely out of flight test, to gain speed performance. The basic features of the Sabre—its sweptback wing and tail, nose inlet with straight-through flow to a single jet engine, power control systems—held the potential for a new layout using updated technology. Those potentials coalesced, and led to the first of a new generation of combat aircraft capable of supersonic speeds.
The F-ioo was off to a brilliant start when unpredictable problems suddenly stopped the programme dead in its tracks. The losses of several early aircraft and their pilots in rapid succession, including the ninth F-iooA with North American's chief test pilot George Welch, trigged an investigation that was thorough and, finally, fruitful.
The Super Sabre was not welcome at first in the Air Force. The F- 100A day fighters were in active service a relatively short time before being transferred to Air National Guard units which were, by long tradition and standard practice, equipped with the castoff aircraft of the active forces. The later F-iooC was more acceptable to the US AF, bur only because it was capable of fighter-bomber missions. And in that role of an air-to-ground weapon, the Super Sabre finally came into its own.

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Osprey - Air Combat - David A. Anderton - North Am erican F-100 Super Sabre (1987).pdf

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Squadron - Fighting Colors 6561 - Steve Birdsall, Don Greer - B-17 Flying Fortress in Color (1986).jpg

All B-17F Flying Fortresses wore a basic paint scheme of matt lacquers developed at Wright Field and applied to the bomber on the factory production line. In accordance with a Technical Order dating to April of 1941. this color scheme was Dark Olive Drab (Shade 41) for the upper surfaces and Neutral Gray (Shade 43) for the lower surfaces. The colors were blended by over-spraying where they joined.
In addition to the camouflage there were numerous other markings: maintenance directions and other technical data were applied to the aircraft in 1/2 inch letters in Black on the Olive Drab areas, mbm and in Insignia Blue (Shade 47) on the Neut-nil Gray areas. The aircraft's type, model, serial number and crew weight were painted in Black letters 1 inch high on the left side of the nose.
Above the left wing and below the right wing was a 74 inch diametercocarde. an Insignia Blue circle containing an Insignia White star. There were similar cocardes. 50 inches in diameter on either side of the fuselage just forward of the waist windows. On the tail was the airplane designator, an abbreviated form of the airplanes serial number, later this was commonly referred to as the radio call number"; these 15 inch high numbers were painted in Identification Yellow (Shade 48). and were 80 inches below the tip of the tailfin.

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Squadron - Fighting Colors 6561 - Steve Birdsall, Don Greer - B-17 Flying Fortress in Color (1986).pdf

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Squadron - Walk Around 05 - W.E. Scarborough - PBY Catalina (1996).jpg

The intent of the WALK AROUND series is to provide maximum information in a limited number of pages. This led us to the decision to restrict this book to the PBY-5/5A/6A and their variants, USAF OA-lOA and Catalinas/Cansos of the Allied Air Forces.
Considered obsolete by many as the Second World War II began, the PBY proved a tremendous asset to all the services that flew her, performing in roles never envisioned by her designers. Maritime patrol, convoy escort and ASW were her primary duties, but in all combat areas, especially the South Pacific, the PBY proved to be a capable bomber and outstanding Search and Rescue Dumbo, saving hundreds of survivors. Bombing and strafing "Black Cats", overall Black PBYs flying at night, were the scourge of enemy efforts to supply bypassed forward area bases. Basically unchanged from first production in 1936 to the last PBY, delivered in 1945, the Catalina's operational capability had increased enormously with improved armament, power-boosted ammunition supply, armor, fuel dump valves, self-sealing fuel tanks, thermal deicing, radar and communication gear.
PBYs continued to serve many armed services after the war. The last Navy Catalina, a PBY-6A, flew until 1957 in the Naval Reserve. Foreign air forces operated PBYs into the 1970s, principally for search and rescue and logistic support of outlying installations.
Catalinas have served in many civilian roles since the Second World War, providing passenger and freight service to remote areas and for many more exotic pursuits. Some serve as water bombers, fighting forest fires all over the World with water scooped into hull tanks through retractable probes as the PBY skimmed over a lake or river surface. Several have been configured as air yachts by private owners. For improved performance, many have been re-engined with 1,700 hp Wright R-2600 engines and nacelles from B-25 bombers. A revised vertical tail improves stability and control and has led to a new name - "Super Cat".

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