Strategy: Key Thinkers

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in much the same way. War is not only cruel but capricious; its outcomes are often bitter and frustrating, even for the winning side. Strategy: Key Thinkers expertly introduces the ideas of major strategic thinkers whose work explores the complex challenges associated with the use of military force. Early chapters deal with the foundational work of Sun Tzu (Sunzi), Thucydides, Vegetius, Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz and their relevance to problems facing Western militaries today. The book then considers broader issues, such as the distinctive importance of air and maritime operations, the difficulty of waging offensive land warfare in the face of modern firepower, the implications of nuclear weapons, and the potential of irregular warfare. It concludes by highlighting key themes which connect - and distinguish - the works under consideration, noting how these similarities and differences can inform the strategic debates of the early twenty-first century.

History

Kane, Tom

Military

Polity

Over twenty two centuries ago, the Greek general Pyrrhus questioned the real gains of military victory. Today we might reflect on the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in much the same way. War is not only cruel but capricious; its outcomes are often bitter and frustrating, even for the winning side. Strategy: Key Thinkers expertly introduces the ideas of major strategic thinkers whose work explores the complex challenges associated with the use of military force. Early chapters deal with the foundational work of Sun Tzu (Sunzi), Thucydides, Vegetius, Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz and their relevance to problems facing Western militaries today. The book then considers broader issues, such as the distinctive importance of air and maritime operations, the difficulty of waging offensive land warfare in the face of modern firepower, the implications of nuclear weapons, and the potential of irregular warfare. It concludes by highlighting key themes which connect - and distinguish - the works under consideration, noting how these similarities and differences can inform the strategic debates of the early twenty-first century.

This is the story of a vanished small-town America. Time: from the era of the horse-drawn Democrat wagon to the present. Place: one the Pamet River, Truro, Massachusetts, a small sea-coast town near the tip of Cape Cod. Kane Weaves in brilliant descriptions of the changing seasons (prompting one reader to write that he could smell the salt air in last month's column) regaling his readers with spectacular reports of shipwrecks of the coast of Truro and the nefarious deeds of the mooncussers, over fifty years ago. He evokes memories of the two-room Wilder School, scene of many boyhood pranks; barefoot trips to the corner drug store; and his first attendance at the ritual backyard hog butchering, in the fall.

My Pamet

Americas

Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Essays describe small town life on Cape Cod during the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties

My Pamet: Cape Cod Chronicle

Moyer Bell Ltd.

Cyclopedia Talislanta Vol V, The: The Eastern Lands gives an in-depth look at the Quan Empire, the Jungles of Chana, and the people of the Opal Mountains. Contains two adventures.

Cyclopedia Talislanta Volume V: The Eastern Lands

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pryor, Anthony

Murphy, Kevin

Sheeley, Craig

Fantasy

Bard Games

The Cyclopedia Talislanta: The Desert Kingdoms: 006

Herring, Tony

Parenting & Relationships

BAD CHURCH GOOD CHURCH:A MEMOIR OF A FORMER CATHOLIC PRIEST is not a theological treatise. It is the story of a man who grew up at the beginning of the Great Depression in a poor Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Philadelphia, became a priest and left the priesthood and the church. The memoir begins with a realization that there are two Catholic churches, one the imperial, authoritarian, male-dominated and intolerant church. The other is the church of the people. The first is dominated by tiaras, thrones, rings to be kissed, royal robes, infallible pronouncements and secret inquisitions. The other is characterized by soup kitchens, mercy hospitals, nuns and priests living in poverty, pantries for the poor, Catholic charities collections, and the faithful gathering in church halls to distribute alms. After this introduction, the story takes the reader through Kane's long life of obedience, regular church attendance to entrance into the seminary and eventual ordination to the priesthood. Through 10 years as a priest, the author struggled with the authoritarian, man-made laws and pronouncements of an impersonal church leadership remote from the plight of the people. Kane began to realizes that those power-hungry leaders had only one aim in mind - the preservation of the church above all else. The current sexual scandals of the clergy, the pope and bishop's intolerance of the most heinous acts are but the latest indication of this attitude.

Bad Church Good Church: A Memoir of a Former Catholic Priest

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Primus Publications

Kim Darby had never had to work in her entire life. She married her childhood sweetheart at eighteen and at thirty she had three young daughters, a lovely home and was living the dream. Then her husband suddenly passed away, without any insurance cover and a stack of debts. For the first time in her life, Kim needed a job. She had no problem finding a job, but on her first day she realised what the job entailed. Hilarious true stories from the front-line of debt collecting.

Diary of a Debt Collector

Community & Culture

Independently published

Operation Back Channel: A Fast Moving Tale

Literature & Fiction

Lisi, Joe

Genre Fiction

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