Current Events : Warfare & Terrorism

This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before 9/11. With its focus on maximizing civilian casualties, terrorism has been uniquely able to arouse the popular emotion and make us rethink the use of military force. more...

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In light of the ongoing war against terrorism, can the United States maintain its dedication to protecting civil liberties without compromising security? At stake is nothing less than the survival of ideas associated with the modern period of political philosophy: the freedom of conscience, the inviolable rights of the individual to privacy, the constitutionally limited state, as well as the more recent refinement of late modern liberalism, multiculturalism. Contributors evaluate the need to reassess the nation's public policies, institutions, as well as its very identity. The struggle to persist as an open society in the age of terrorism will be the defining test of democracy in the twenty first century. CHRISTOPHER P. BANKS, The University of Akron, Ohio, USA DAVID B. COHEN, The University of Akron, Ohio, USA ALETHIA H. COOK, The University of Akron, Ohio, USA BRIAN J. GERBER, Texas Tech University, USA CHRISTIAN MARLIN, University of Central Florida, USA JEREL A. ROSATI, University of South Carolina, USA EDWARD R. SHARKEY, Jr., Columbia College, Illinois, USA OTIS H. STEPHENS, JR., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA KENDRA B. more...

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In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic -- upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings of American democracy. This is a story not of simple corruption but of the unexpected origins of a more subtle and, in many ways, more worrisome disfiguring of our political system and society. more...

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This report provides an assessment of the US Army's ability to insert mechanized forces in enemy-controlled terrain. The authors examined the performance of the national AAN advanced airframes under a variety of conditions. more...

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Undertaken at the request of the Veterans Health Administration, this is a quantitative analysis of the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system, which allocates the congressionally appropriated medical care budget to the Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs). more...

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