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  Tim Weiner

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  Book, First Printing, Grand Central Publishing, 1990

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  Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the “Black Budget”–a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars.

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  United States · Dept. of Defense · Appropriations and expenditures · Accounting · Official secrets · Defense information, Classified · Armed Forces · Military policy · Foreign relations · Weiner, Tim

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  Robert D. Kaplan

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  Book, First, Random House, 2005

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  This is the rare book that has the potential to change the way readers view the men and women of the military, war, and the global reach of American imperialism today.As Kaplan writes, the only way to understand Americas military is on foot, or in a Humvee, with the troops themselves, for even as elites in New York and Washington debated imperialism in grand, historical terms, individual marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailorsall the cultural repositories of Americas unique experience with freedomwere interpreting policy on their own, on the ground, in dozens upon dozens of countries every week, oblivious to such faraway discussions.

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  Soldiers · History · Special forces (Military science) · War on Terrorism, 2001 · World politics · Imperialism · Military policy · Kaplan, Robert D., 1952

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  Tad Bartimus and Scott McCartney

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  Book, 1st ed, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991

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  Nuclear weapons · Social aspects · Military policy · Description and travel · Social life and customs · Bartimus, Tad · McCartney, Scott

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  James Carroll

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  Book, 1St Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

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  And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war.Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and dozens of extensive interviews with Washington insiders.

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  United States · Dept. of Defense · Pentagon (Va.) · Militarism · History · Arms race · Military policy · Carroll, James, 1943

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  Edward N. Luttwak

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  Book, F, Simon & Schuster, 1985

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  Armed Forces · Military policy · Luttwak, Edward

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  Noam Chomsky

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  Book, 1st, Metropolitan Books, 2003

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  In Hegemony or Survival , Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this moment, what kind of peril we find ourselves in, and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species.With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky dissects America’s quest for global supremacy, tracking the U.S. government’s aggressive pursuit of policies intended to achieve “full spectrum dominance” at any cost.

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  Imperialism · Unilateral acts (International law) · Intervention (International law) · State-sponsored terrorism · War on Terrorism, 2001 · Foreign relations · Military policy · Chomsky, Noam

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  Richard A. Mobley

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  Book, First Printing, US Naval Institute Press, 2010

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  During a dark period of U.S. military history in the late 1960s, North Korean forces captured an American naval vessel and shot down an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, taking the lives of thirty-one U.S. sailors and Marines and striking a damaging blow to American honor.

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  Pueblo Incident, 1968 · Military intelligence · Military surveillance · Foreign relations · Military policy · Mobley, Richard A., 1952

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  Steven L. Rys

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  Book, 1St Edition, Arms and Armour Press, 1983

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  Armed Forces · Military policy · Rys, Steven L

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  William A. Owens

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  Book, US Naval Institute Press, 1995

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  United States · Navy · History · Operational readiness · Sea-power · Armed Forces · Military policy · Owens, William A., 1940

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  Bob Woodward

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  Book, Simon & Schuster, 2006

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  A SECRET report to the new Secretary of State Rice from her counselor stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a “failed state.” State of Denial reveals that at the urging of Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld, the most frequent outside visitor and Iraq adviser to President Bush is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who, haunted still by the loss in Vietnam, emerges as a hidden and potent voice.

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  National security · Decision making · Iraq War, 2003 · Military policy · Officials and employees · Woodward, Bob

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  Kenneth R. Timmerman

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  Book, Crown Forum, 2005

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  Timmerman blows the lid off the greatest threat America faces: the Islamic Republic of Iran.Using his exclusive access to previously classified documents, Iranian defectors and officials, and high-level sources in the U.S. government and intelligence community, Timmerman blows the lid off previously unreported threats and our intelligence communitys failure to deal with these dangers.

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  Nuclear weapons · World politics · Military policy · Timmerman, Kenneth R

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  David Halberstam

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  Book, 1st Touchstone Ed, Scribner, 2001

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  In this long-awaited successor to his #1 national bestseller The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam describes in fascinating human detail how the shadow of the Cold War still hangs over American foreign policy and how domestic politics have determined our role as a world power.

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  Intervention (International law) · Vietnam War, 1961-1975 · Influence · Foreign relations · Politics and government · Military policy · Halberstam, David

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  Joshua Cooper Ramo

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  Book, 1, Little, Brown and Company, 2009

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  In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability–and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

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  World politics · Foreign relations · Military policy · Ramo, Joshua Cooper

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  Bob Woodward

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  Book, Simon& Schuster, 1991

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  The Commanders is based on two years of reporting and intensive interviewing within the Bush administration and the Pentagon and provides a behind-the-scenes account of the administration’s war and peace policies. These commanders include the Commander-in-Chief himself, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell as well as National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Secretary of State James Baker and Generals Maxwell Thurman, commander in Panama and H.

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  Military leadership · Foreign relations · Decision making · Military policy · Woodward, Bob

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  Ralph Peters

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  Book, Sentinel, 2005

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  Since World War II, Americans have been the worlds true revolutionaries, expanding the frontiers of human liberty by fighting and winning the cold war. Peters criticizes the Bush administration for over-relying on high technology and defense contractors in the Iraq war and for not committing enough troops and being too afraid of casualties to do the job properly.

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  Terrorism · Government policy · War on Terrorism, 2001 · Foreign relations · Military policy · Peters, Ralph, 1952

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