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Author |
: Charlie Savage |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 1067 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316286602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316286605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power Wars by : Charlie Savage
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.
Author |
: John Dower |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2012-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307816146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307816141 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis War without Mercy by : John Dower
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Author |
: Steve Striffler |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2003-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822331969 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822331964 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Banana Wars by : Steve Striffler
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
Author |
: Bojan Aleksov |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2020-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633863367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633863368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wars and Betweenness by : Bojan Aleksov
The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.
Author |
: Kathleen Belew |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2019-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674237698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674237692 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bring the War Home by : Kathleen Belew
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.
Author |
: Matthieu Auzanneau |
Publisher |
: Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 674 |
Release |
: 2020-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603589789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603589783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oil, Power, and War by : Matthieu Auzanneau
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.
Author |
: Tom Angleberger |
Publisher |
: Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2015-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781484712207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 148471220X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! by : Tom Angleberger
Acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Tom Angleberger delivers a captivating retelling of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi like you've never experienced before, infusing the iconic, classic tale of good versus evil with a unique perspective and narrative style that will speak directly to today's young readers while enhancing the Star Wars experience for core fans of the saga.
Author |
: Brian Massumi |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2015-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822375197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822375192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ontopower by : Brian Massumi
Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the existence of credible intelligence, are now felt into reality. Whereas nations once waited for a clear and present danger to emerge before using force, a threat's felt reality now demands launching a preemptive strike. Power refocuses on what may emerge, as that potential presents itself to feeling. This affective logic of potential washes back from the war front to become the dominant mode of power on the home front as well. This is ontopower—the mode of power embodying the logic of preemption across the full spectrum of force, from the “hard” (military intervention) to the "soft" (surveillance). With Ontopower, Massumi provides an original theory of power that explains not only current practices of war but the culture of insecurity permeating our contemporary neoliberal condition.
Author |
: David Irving |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:159826180 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Churchill's War by : David Irving
Author |
: David Gates |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 186189189X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781861891891 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Sky Wars by : David Gates
In Sky Wars, David Gates examines the history of military aerospace power, discussing technical developments between both World Wars and the use of air power in specific wars in the latter part of the 20th century, including the recent conflict with Iraq.