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Weapon of Choice

Author : Matthew Ford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190911468
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Weapon of Choice written by Matthew Ford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical change. Their relative simplicity, however, makes it easy to use them to map patterns of innovation within the military-industrial complex. Advanced technologies may have captured the military imagination, offering the possibility of clean and decisive outcomes, but it is the low technologies of the infantryman that can help us develop an appreciation for the dynamics of military-technical change. Tracing the path of innovation from battlefield to back office, and from industry to alliance partner, Ford develops insights into the way that small arms are socially constructed. He thereby exposes the mechanics of power across the military-industrial complex. This in turn reveals that shifting power relations between soldiers and scientists, bureaucrats and engineers, have allowed the private sector to exploit infantry status anxiety and shape soldier weapon preferences. Ford's analysis allows us to draw wider conclusions about how military innovation works and what social factors frame Western military purchasing policy, from small arms to more sophisticated and expensive weapons.

Weapon of Choice

Author : Fredrick E. Ayres
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241096
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Weapon of Choice written by Fredrick E. Ayres and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ordinary Americans, frustrated by the legal and political wrangling over the Second Amendment, can fight for reforms that will both respect gun owners’ rights and reduce gun violence. Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s current interpretation of the Second Amendment. And gun rights advocates have joined a politically savvy firearm industry in a powerful coalition that stymies reform. Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars suggest a new way forward. We can decrease the number of gun deaths, they argue, by empowering individual citizens to choose common-sense gun reforms for themselves. Rather than ask politicians to impose one-size-fits-all rules, we can harness a libertarian approach—one that respects and expands individual freedom and personal choice—to combat the scourge of gun violence. Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. For example, Donna’s Law, a voluntary program whereby individuals can choose to restrict their ability to purchase or possess firearms, can significantly decrease suicide rates. Amending Red Flag statutes, which allow judges to restrict access to guns when an individual has shown evidence of dangerousness, can give police flexible and effective tools to keep people safe. Encouraging the use of unlawful possession petitions can help communities remove guns from more than a million Americans who are legally disqualified from owning them. By embracing these and other new forms of decentralized gun control, the United States can move past partisan gridlock and save lives now.

Adaptation under Fire

Author : Lt. General David Barno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190672072
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Adaptation under Fire written by Lt. General David Barno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We have a perfect record in predicting the next war. We have never once gotten it right." In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries must be able to adapt rapidly in order to win. Adaptation under Fire identifies the characteristics that make militaries more adaptable, illustrated through historical examples and the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Authors David Barno and Nora Bensahel argue that militaries facing unknown future conflicts must nevertheless make choices about the type of doctrine that their units will use, the weapons and equipment they will purchase, and the kind of leaders they will select and develop to guide the force to victory. Yet after a war begins, many of these choices will prove flawed in the unpredictable crucible of the battlefield. For a U.S. military facing diverse global threats, its ability to adapt quickly and effectively to those unforeseen circumstances may spell the difference between victory and defeat. Barno and Bensahel start by providing a framework for understanding adaptation and include historical cases of success and failure. Next, they examine U.S. military adaptation during the nation's recent wars, and explain why certain forms of adaptation have proven problematic. In the final section, Barno and Bensahel conclude that the U.S. military must become much more adaptable in order to address the fast-changing security challenges of the future, and they offer recommendations on how to do so before it is too late.

Kidnapping and Abduction

Author : Brian John Heard
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482228157
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Kidnapping and Abduction written by Brian John Heard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist groups and organized crime cartels pose an increasing threat of kidnapping throughout many regions in the word. At the same time, international travel has become more commonplace for both business and leisure purposes. Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival provides a practical guide on the precautions travelers can take to avoid being kidnapped or derail a kidnapping attempt in progress. In the event this cannot be avoided, the book supplies advice on how to ensure survival during captivity. Readers will learn: The basic elements of kidnapping and abduction The motivations and mechanisms of kidnappers The hotspots where kidnapping/hostage taking is prevalent Vehicles best suited for avoidance of kidnap threat and proposals for up-armoring an existing vehicle How to recognize immediate threats and precautions to be taken in assessing threat level The types of weapons most favored by kidnappers and their threat level Available bullet-resistant materials and their use in stab- and bullet-resistant vests Resistance methodologies and weapons for self-defense Legislation in various countries pertaining to the carrying of weapons How to survive long-term abduction if kidnapped How to best assist the authorities once released Essential reading for anyone living, doing business, or traveling abroad or at sea, this practical handbook reveals tactics that best enable those vulnerable to protect against an attack—or in the worse-case scenario, increase their chances for survival.

Pantex Plant, Continued Operation, and Associated Storage of Nuclear Weapon Components, Carson County

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Act of 1989

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Act of 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defense Vaccines

Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0756718074
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Defense Vaccines written by Dan Burton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Sue Bailey, Assist. Sec. for Health Aff., DoD; Randall West, Spec. Assist. to the Sec. of Def. for Biol. Warfare and Anthrax, DoD; Randy Randolph, Anthrax Vaccine Immun. Prog. Agency, DoD; Cedric Dumont, Off. of Med. Serv., U.S. Dept. of State; Kathryn Zoon, Ctr. for Biologics, Eval. and Res., FDA; Kwai-Cheung Chan, Spec. Stud. and Eval., GAO, accomp. by Dr. Charla; William Crowe, Jr. (USN Ret.); Jack Melling, biol. dev't. center, the Salk Inst.; Milton Leitenberg, Center for Internat. and Security Stud., Univ. of Maryland; John Classen; Sonnie Bates, Pilot, USAF; Thomas Rempfer, Pilot, USAF Reserves; and Neal Halsey, dir., Inst. for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Federal Bureau of Investigation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?

Author : Maria Eriksson Baaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780321651
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? written by Maria Eriksson Baaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence and militarization, the authors address many of the thorny issues inherent in the arrival of sexual violence on the global security agenda. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual violence from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field, on an issue that has become an increasingly important security, legal and gender topic.

Pure Providence

Author : Aja James
Publisher : Aja James
ISBN 13 : 1095708961
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Pure Providence written by Aja James and published by Aja James. This book was released on 2022-04-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All my existence, I have loved one woman. But she was never meant to be mine. I loved her when she was the intended bride for another. I betrayed him too. I loved her after they married. I took what wasn’t mine. I paid my penance by dying in his stead. But it wasn’t enough to restore the Balance. When the Goddess gave me a chance to make things right, to serve as a soldier of the Pure Ones, I embraced that offer. Even though what I really wanted to do was stay dead and numb. Never to be reawakened in this world. Never to feel again. To yearn and desire and seethe with jealousy and despair at my own helplessness. The Goddess warned me at the moment of my death and rebirth not to want her again. For our paths would cross in the future, though I wouldn’t know the time and place. Nor would I recognize her physical incarnation. For she was never meant to be mine. Will never be mine. But the moment I realized who she was—the Pure Queen I’d been assigned to protect as the Paladin—the moment I recognized her soul, I Fell again. I wanted. I craved. I yearned. I seethed. I resisted. I pushed her away over and over again. Made her angry and confused. Made her hate me. But Goddess above! I cannot change how I feel. I cannot stop wanting her. Cannot stop loving her. All my existence, my body, heart and soul have belonged to one woman. Even though she can never be mine. I love her still. I love her forever. This is the beginning of the end of our story. Judge me if you dare.

Marvel Avengers Battle Against Ultron

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0241203627
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Marvel Avengers Battle Against Ultron written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's better than one Super Hero? A team of them! Meet the Avengers: a crime fighting team made up of your favourite Super Heroes. Read about their superpowers, their gadgets and their greatest enemies. Can you live by the Avengers charter and help them defeat their foes? Engaging topics and fun, interactive pages build reading skills in this Level 4 Reader - just right for children who can read alone. A fun quiz at the end of the book helps to develop reading comprehension skills. Each title in the DK Readers series is developed in consultation with leading literacy experts to help children build a lifelong love of reading. © 2015 MARVEL

A Rand Note

Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rand Note written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legacy of Heroes

Author : Vincent Venturella
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257986031
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Heroes written by Vincent Venturella and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Heroes is a Fantasy Role Playing Game with a singular focus: imagination. The Legacy of Heroes Player's Guide offers everything you need to bring the myriad characters from movies, literature, mythology and anything else you can imagine to life on the page before you. This book contains 11 races, 11 classes, 40 heroic arcs and all the spells, styles, equipment, magic items and more you need for your own brave heroes to move from character to legend. The Legacy of Heroes exciting Heroic Talent and Heroic Moment systems empower the players to create truly memorable role-playing experiences like never before. This book facilitates that collaboration by giving you, the player, the tools you need for the stories you imagine in an efficient, simple, and familiar system based on the OGL license. The only question is, are you ready for your own legacy? Visit www.thelegacyofheroes.com for support, downloads and more!

Adventures with an Interdimensional Psychopath

Author : Wayne Keeler
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1638673713
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Adventures with an Interdimensional Psychopath written by Wayne Keeler and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures With An Interdimensional Psychopath: An Introduction To Madness By: Wayne Keeler The Author Wayne Keeler wanted to challenge the impossible and to try and open the imagination of people to see possibilities and think outside the box. The author is an advent philosopher and one strong theory that he mulls around thinking about is the Alternate Dimensional theory, which basically states that when a decision is made, infinite and endless possibilities branch off, creating alternate worlds that can vary either very drastically or very minimally. The only thing that limits the possibilities is one’s own imagination. But, while this can be a dual edged sword, this can also lead to truly wondrous and beautiful ideas that can bring about a beautiful world. Join Lily Extravagund on her adventure with an interdimensional psychopath to see the worlds in a new light. Lily Extravagund was a normal girl, studying and preparing for her future in the upper echelon. A simple tool to be used to help her sister get a step higher, until she runs into a complete and utter strange stranger. When she confronts them, it’s at this moment that when her world gets turned upside down and inside out. When things start looking up, they immediately spiral in ways beyond imagination. When her life hits the lowest possible point, the stranger intervenes again to introduce her to new possibilities that changes her life forever. With these changes, she could never go back to seeing how things were again.

Strategic Modernization Issues

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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The Harvest HandbookTM of Bible Lands

Author : Steven Collins
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736975438
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Harvest HandbookTM of Bible Lands written by Steven Collins and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The scope of your learning...will be unlimited and enhanced by leaps and bounds as you use this wonderful tool.” from the Foreword by Walter C. Kaiser, Jr New discoveries are constantly being made as archaeologists work to uncover the ancient history of the Bible lands to tell a more complete story of the people, customs, and events of that era. Archaeologist Steven Collins and Bible scholar Joseph M. Holden have spent decades making and researching those discoveries and now offer a wealth of information based on the latest findings. This exciting addition to The Harvest HandbookTM series provides a textual and visual bird’s-eye view of ancient Near Eastern biblical geography, culture, history, and chronology. If you’re looking for an accurate, readable, and user-friendly resource to further your study of God’s Word, The Harvest HandbookTMof Bible Lands provides a valuable backdrop for biblical narratives and literature. With the most up-to-date information from biblical and archaeological disciplines, you will find your knowledge greatly enriched through well-written narrative-style text, numerous maps, instructive photographs, illustrations, and charts. This must-have tool will become your favorite resource as you study Scripture.