Our War Losses

Author : Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780833078216

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Providing for the Casualties of War by Bernard D. Rostker Pdf

War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416583141

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What Every Person Should Know About War by Chris Hedges Pdf

Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

Author : David Vine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520385689

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The United States of War by David Vine Pdf

2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

Author : Daniel P. Bolger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780544370487

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Why We Lost by Daniel P. Bolger Pdf

A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong. Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, Bolger offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger makes the firm case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost -- but we didn't have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy. Why We Lost is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable account of these wars from a fresh and authoritative perspective.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116493867

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375703836

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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : UCAL:B5199009

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To Protect Trade and Commerce Against Unreasonable Restraints by Labor Organizations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Gloria Emerson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393349559

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Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War by Gloria Emerson Pdf

The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary. Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied American power, and its poignant truths are the legacy of a remarkable journalist.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Currency question
ISBN : NYPL:33433022477164

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Preliminary Part of Paper Against Gold by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Examine and Review the Administration of the Trading with the Enemy Act
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Scholarships
ISBN : MINN:31951D02120588W

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Return of Confiscated Property by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Examine and Review the Administration of the Trading with the Enemy Act Pdf

Considers legislation on return of confiscated property, payment of American war damage claims, and use of interest from the investment of funds obtained under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act for scientific scholarships and fellowships for children of veterans.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017254437

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Paper against Gold: or the History and mystery of the Bank of England ... Fourth edition by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020295482

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Cobbett's Paper against Gold: containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England, the funds, etc by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : United States. Congress Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures Joint Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119590581

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Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditure, Hearings Before ...., 77-1 to 78-1, Pursuant to Section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 by United States. Congress Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures Joint Committee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D036322704

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Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures Pdf