Adamant Aggressors

Adamant Aggressors
Author: Bruce D. Thatcher
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-06-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1462891950

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ADAMANT AGGRESSORS is a practical guide to help scholars, political scientists, policy-makers and laymen understand and apply specific lessons that history has for the present time. It takes a business-case look at five adamant aggressors - Mehmed the Conqueror, James K. Polk, Adolph Hitler, Chaim Weizmann/David Ben-Gurion, Joseph Stalin - and what they teach about recognizing and dealing with adamant aggressors who may be threatening America today. While these lessons may not ensure that the best choices will be made today, understanding them will help readers to reject demonstrated bad choices and, thus, more likely arrive at better choices. This unique approach allows readers to quickly peruse a 2-3 page Executive Summary at the beginning of each case study, or to examine a thoroughly researched and documented narrative of the aggressor ́s action and the reactions of his targets. Analysis then details how each aggressor is identified as adamant (and might have been while there was time to react effectively), and how targets violated or sometimes conformed to guidelines for dealing with adamant aggressors. The final chapter draws from the five cases to validate the lessons for how to recognize and deal with adamant aggressors, and urges application by America´s leaders. USA "Best Books 2011" awards - Finalist in the "Current Events: Political/Social" category.

Too Big?: How To Tell and How To Get More Accountability

Too Big?: How To Tell and How To Get More Accountability
Author: Bruce D. Thatcher
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Too Big? identifies accountability standards. It examines five high-profile historical and current cases where accountability was/is flawed or missing: Robert Clive of the British East India Company, John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, Ralph Cordiner of General Electric, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta. It shows how such people are not subjected to effective accountability. And it suggests remedies to improve accountability of those at the top of business, governmental and other organizations.

Rise & Decline

Rise & Decline
Author: Bruce Thatcher
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2017-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 136577127X

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Rise & Decline is a political science work that examines the history of six republics to identify common elements in their rise, decline and extinction. Ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Third Republic of France have all passed from the world scene. The United Kingdom and the United States of America still exist, but are in decline. While many things can cause the end of a nation, these studies show that the normal life cycle of a nation - its birth, rise, maturity, decline, expiration - is determined by the degree to which its citizens accept the principles upon which it was founded - its raison d'être. Nations in ascendance are characterized by a critical mass of citizens attuned to their founding principle. As they decline, nations are characterized by growing numbers of citizens who are indifferent to or disdainful of founding principles. History is clear: All nations end. The existential question for Americans is not whether we can prevent it.

Stop Farting in the Pyramids

Stop Farting in the Pyramids
Author: Katiedid Langrock
Publisher: Creators Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-03-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 194244883X

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1962
Genre: World politics
ISBN:

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Letters to Power

Letters to Power
Author: Samuel McCormick
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0271072199

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Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.

Aggressor

Aggressor
Author: Timothy Ryback
Publisher: Mountain Leopard Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787397998

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Former covert operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream in book eight of the best-selling series - not a care in the world as he steers his camper van around the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia. But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt of friendship. As events unfold in the teeming streets of modern Istanbul and the bleak, medieval villages of Georgia, Nick finds himself catapulted once more into the murky, clandestine world he thought he’d left behind – a world in the grip of nameless enemies who linger in the shadows, and stalk the corridors of power...

Besieged Adept

Besieged Adept
Author: Margaret L. Carter
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1925191826

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In a world where hostile nations wield magic in combat, twin sorceresses separated at birth and brought up on opposing sides of the war find each other. Together, they face persecution for using wild magic, fight against traitors and assassins, explore family secrets, and discover the hidden origins of magic itself. Above all, to protect their world, they must deal with ancient, powerful dragons that most people don't even believe exist. While learning to control her wild sorcery, Adept Aetria has defeated a pair of traitors trying to kill her, found a long-lost twin, and uncovered secrets of the source and nature of magic. Now she continues her research while battling the remnants of the Neo-Aggressor rebellion and integrating raw, untrained talent into the Sorcerer Corps. Meanwhile, she discovers deeper secrets of her own family background, along with a surprising new foe and a destiny she never dreamed of. Furthermore, she learns that her "imaginary" dragon friend Rajii actually exists...but so do less friendly dragons. What does their agenda mean for the future of humanity and magic in Aetria's world?

Red Eagles

Red Eagles
Author: Steve Davies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 184908839X

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From the mid-1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, eventually creating a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy MiGs. In this program, MiGs were secretly acquired and made air-worthy, before selected ace pilots were trained to fly the assets as they were flown by America's enemies. This book tells the fascinating story of the Red Eagles, using recently declassified information and firsthand accounts from the pilots who took part in the program.