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The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manualby Leadership The Center For Army
McGraw-Hill 2004; US$ 14.95How the world's most dynamic organization prepares its leaders for battle, with valuable insights for today's business arena. For mor than 50 years, The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual has provided leadership training for every officer training program in the U.S. Army. This trade edition brings the manual's value-based leadership principles and practices to today's business world. The result is a compelling examination of how to be an effective leader when the survival of your team literally hangs on your decisions. More than 60 gripping vignettes and stories illustrate historical and contemporary examples of army leaders who made a difference. The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual also provides:.:.; A leadership approach based on the army's... more...
All Inby Paula Broadwell; Vernon Loeb
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 14.99General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In All In, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S. military. Afforded extensive access by General Petraeus, his mentors, his subordinates, and his longtime friends, Broadwell embedded with the general, his headquarters staff, and his soldiers on the front lines of fighting and at the strategic command in Afghanistan to chronicle the experiences of this American general as they were brought to bear in the terrible crucible of war. All In draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Petraeus and his top... more...
Observing Our Hermanos de Armasby Robert O. Kirkland
Routledge 2003; US$ 141.00This study analyzes the effectiveness of the US military attache corps in Latin America from the end of World War II to the Johnson administration. more...
MI6 and the Machinery of Spyingby Philip H.J. Davies
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 46.95This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War. more...
Federal Benefitsby U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
JIST Publishing 2002; US$ 9.95Programs for disabled veterans, ex-POWs, incarcerated veterans, and those exposed to chemicals or radiation Health-care benefits, including explanations about copayments, dental care, nursing homes, services for the blind, counseling, and medical care for dependents Federal programs for education, rehabilitation, home loans, pensions, insurance, and burial benefits Special sections on women veterans, overseas benefits, and programs for homeless veterans Where to find information on the Internet What the Veteran?s Preference means in seeking a Federal job How to locate VA and other forms online more...
Exploring Information Superiorityby Walter Perry; David Signori; John Boon
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Assessing how technology contributes to information superiority and decision dominance a major challenge, in part because it demands quantitative measures for what are usually considered qualitative concepts. The authors have developed a mathematical framework to aid these efforts. Additional work, such as data fitting, experimentation, linking decisions and actions, historical analysis, and gaming will further advance knowledge in this area. more...
Is Military Advertising Effective? An Estimation Methodology and Applications to Recruiting in the 1980s and 90sby James N. Dertouzos; Steven Garber
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The Defense Department has been spending over $100 million annually on recruiting advertising. Previous econometric studies of military advertising?s effects have relied on data from time periods unlike today?s and have used models possibly inappropriate for supporting today?s decisionmakers. This report details improved methods developed to assess military advertising?s effectiveness and illustrates them using early 1980s and mid-1990s data. more...
Intelligence in Warby John Keegan
Knopf Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99John Keegan, whose many books, including classic histories of the two world wars, have confirmed him as the premier miltary historian of our time, here presents a masterly look at the value and limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph and radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse could ride, yet intelligence helped defeat Napoleon. In the twentieth century, photo analysts didn’t recognize Germany’s V-2 rockets for what they were; on the other hand, intelligence helped lead to victory over the Japanese at Midway. In Intelligence in War , John Keegan illustrates that only... more...
Married to the Militaryby James Hosek; Beth Asch; C. Christine Fair; Craig Martin; Michael Mattock
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Today's military is a military of families; many service members are married, and many of their spouses work and contribute to family income. But military wives earn less than civilian wives, and this study seeks to understand why. The authors find that military wives, knowing they are likely to move frequently, are willing to accept jobs that offer a lower wage rather than to use more of their remaining time at a location to find a higher-wage job. Compared with civilian wives, military wives tend to work somewhat less if they have young children but somewhat more if their children are older. The probability that military wives work declines with age, although it changes little with age in the civilian world. This probability declines more... more...
Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligenceby Richard K. Betts; Thomas G. Mahnken
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 51.95This collection explores the paradoxes of intelligence analysis, surprise and deception from both historical and theoretical perspectives. more...