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Grand Strategy and Military Alliances
PreviewPeter. R. Mansoor. and. Williamson. Murray. In 2003, one of the editors of this volume attended a conference in Sandhurst on the importance of history to the military profession.1 Surprisingly, he discovered that some of the British officers with ...
War in Iraq: Planning and Execution
PreviewIsaiah Wilson recounts his experiences in Northern Iraq around the city of Mosul in 2003–04; Peter Mansoor describes his experience as the commander of U.S. forces combating Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Karbala in the spring of 2004; ...
Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from ...
PreviewWar. Peter. R. Mansoor. The history of American strategic decision making before and during the Second World War is a clear example of first-rate strategy transforming the great power status of a state. In 1935, with United States in the throes ...
Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the ...
Peter R. MansoorA member of General David Petraeus' personal staff provides the first full insider account of the troop surge in Iraq.
City Fights: Selected Histories of Urban Combat from World ...
John AntalPeter. R. Mansoor. General Wood came in to state that the 4th Armored had just captured Troyes. This capture was ll very magnificent flat ofarms. Colonel, later Genera l, Bruce Clark brought his combat command up north ofthe town, where a ...
Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq
Peter R. MansoorAn on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis ...
Understanding Counterinsurgency Warfare: Doctrine, ...
Preview9 Peter R. Mansoor, Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 104–9. Bing West, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq, New York: Random House, 2008, ...
The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry ...
Peter R. MansoorThese works include Joseph Balkoski, Beyond the Beachhead (29th Infantry Division); John Sloan Brown, Draftee Division (88th Infantry Division); and John Colby, War from the Ground Up (90th Infantry Division). The Combat Studies Institute ...
Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and ...
PreviewIn Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought. Edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof, 223 —45. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. Said, Abdul Aziz, Nathan C. Funk, and Ayse S . Kadayifci.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...
Paul Dickson280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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UNIX, Third Edition: The Textbook
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East: A ...
Mansoor MoaddelAssaad, Sadik A. 1974. The Reign of Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah. Beirut: The Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. Atran, Scott, and Joseph Henrich. 2010. “ The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions.” Biological Theory 5: 18–30. Ayubi, Nazih Nassif M. 1980. Bureaucracy and Politics in Contemporary Egypt. London: Ithaca Press. Baer, Gabriel.
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History
Christopher V. Hill... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics
PreviewBoettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London
Peter UnderwoodPeter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
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