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Factories of Deathby Sheldon H. Harris
Routledge 1995; US$ 49.95Fresh evidence from newly released sources clarifies the shocking story of Japanese human experiments in Manchuria during the War, and reveals the true extent of the subsequent US cover-up. more...
Cassidy's Runby David Wise
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 11.99Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker. Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife, and a classic "sleeper" spy in New York City, were sent by Moscow to penetrate America's secrets. Two FBI agents were killed, and secret formulas were passed to the Russians in a dangerous ploy that could have spurred Moscow to create the world's most powerful nerve gas. Cassidy's Run tells this extraordinary true story for... more...
The Demon in the Freezerby Richard Preston
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 7.99“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.” -Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer , his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone , a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense. Peter... more...
6 Nightmaresby Anthony Lake
Hachette Book Group USA 2000; US$ 9.99Though we live in a time of relative peace and prosperity, serious threats to our national security lie just beyond the horizon. Threats beyond any the United States has faced before, or possibly even imagined. Should these situations become real, will our government be ready? In Six Nightmares, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake draws on his experience coordinating foreign policy to examine six major threats to the security and well-being of American citizens. Lake details scenarios that could arise from global terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international crime, new forms of warfare, and other serious risks to our security, and shows how it is all too plausible that these threats could become real.... more...
Armageddonby Max Hastings
Knopf Publishing Group 2004; US$ 14.99In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting. With Armageddon , the eminent military historian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the great battles and captures their human impact on soldiers and civilians. He tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, raising provocative questions and offering vivid portraits of the great leaders. This rousing and revelatory chronicle brings to life the crucial final months of the twentieth century’s greatest global conflict. From the Trade Paperback... more...
Options for Managing the Army's Arsenals and Ammunition Plantsby Bruce Held; Michael Hynes; W. Michael Hix; David Oaks; Edward Keating
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95US Army facilities provide a significant part of its ordance material and ammunition. This briefing looks at four options for their future: privatization, creating a Federal Government Corporation, consolidation and recapitalization. more...
Military Jet Engine Acquisitionby Obaid Younossi; Mark V. Arena; Richard Moore; Mark Lorell; Joanna Mason
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This text adds new observations to the cost-estimating database from earlier RAND studies and presents a method for forecasting the development cost, development time, and production cost of future military engine programmes. more...
Effective Treatment of Logistics Resource Issues in the Air Force Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) Processby Frank Camm; Leslie Lewis
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The authors of this report propose strategic and policy changes to help the Air Force manage and fund its supply chain in an integrated manner and use closed-loop accountability systems to manage the chain, end-to-end, against its customers' goals. more...
Federal Contract Bundling: A Framework for Making and Justifying Decisions for Purchased Servicesby Laura H. Baldwin; Frank Camm; Nancy Y. Moore
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This work discusses recent legislation designed to protect small businesses by ensuring that bundling occurs only when it is likely to generate "measurably substantial" increases in performance or reductions in cost to the federal buyer. more...
Reorganizing the Military Health Systemby Susan D. Hosek; Gary Cecchine
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95Since the end of World War II, the question of whether to create a unified military health system has arisen repeatedly. Now that a managed-care programme - called TRICARE - is operational, the military health system organization is again in the spotlight. This book documents research in this area. more...









