Redeployment

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698151642

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Redeployment by Phil Klay Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book World, Amazon, and more Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn what it is like to return to domestic life in suburbia, surrounded by people "who have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon died." In "After Action Report", a Lance Corporal seeks expiation for a killing he didn't commit, in order that his best friend will be unburdened. A Morturary Affairs Marine tells about his experiences collecting remains—of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers both. A chaplain sees his understanding of Christianity, and his ability to provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a ferocious Colonel. And in the darkly comic "Money as a Weapons System", a young Foreign Service Officer is given the absurd task of helping Iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play baseball. These stories reveal the intricate combination of monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that make up a soldier's daily life at war, and the isolation, remorse, and despair that can accompany a soldier's homecoming. Redeployment has become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. Written with a hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, this work marks Phil Klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation.

Author : Timothy Folta,Constance Helfat,Samina Karim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786355072

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Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy by Timothy Folta,Constance Helfat,Samina Karim Pdf

This volume examines the differences between resource sharing and resource redeployment, and the subsequent effects on firm value creation and industry evolution.

Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCLA:L0053812020

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Cosmas, G.A., Murray, T.P. Vietnamization and redeployment, 1970-1971 by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : PURD:32754070336700

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Making Officer Redeployment Effective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Graham A. Cosmas,Lt.-Col. Terrence P. Murray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200791

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Vietnamization And Redeployment, 1970-1971 by Dr. Graham A. Cosmas,Lt.-Col. Terrence P. Murray Pdf

This publication represents the eighth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the gradual withdrawal in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, as part of an overall American strategy of turning the ground war against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong over to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam. Although written from the perspective of III MAF and the ground war in I Corps, the volume treats the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, the Seventh Fleet Special Landing Force, and Marines on the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon. There are separate chapters on Marine air, artillery, and logistics. An attempt has been made to place the Marine role in relation to the overall effort.

Author : Ron Thomas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483160221

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An Exercise in Redeployment by Ron Thomas Pdf

An Exercise in Redeployment: The Report of a Trade Union Study Group discusses the report of a trade union study group that probed the cancellation of the TSR2 project, forcing some 2,000 employees of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. to look for other jobs. The report shows how the study group saw and handled the problems; how they saw management's reactions; the efforts of the full-time trade union officials; the response from Ministry of Labor officers; and attitudes on the shop floor and in the office. Emphasis is placed on the shop-floor environment and the shop-floor negotiators. This book is comprised of 15 chapters and opens with a background description of the aircraft industry, followed by a discussion on the TSR2 and the thinking and expectations behind the British government's decision to cancel the project. An analysis of redundancy then follows with the group's thoughts directed towards the sort of questions which are not very often addressed. The negotiations that took place, including those involving severance pay and overtime, are considered. The extent of the experience of members of the study group in previous redundancies is also assessed. The last section gives some indication of what happened to some of the TSR2 workers who nominated themselves to leave under the voluntary system. This monograph will be of interest to trade union members and officials as well as labor policymakers.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000019277127

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Redeployment of Reserves from Operation Desert Storm by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428979178

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Tax administration lessons learned from IRS' initial experience in redeploying employees : report to the Honorable Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Ghana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009130613

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From Redeployment to Sustained Employment Generation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984880666

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Missionaries by Phil Klay Pdf

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational insanity’ of global warfare, Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.” —The Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake. Where can such a person go next? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. Juan Pablo, a Colombian officer, must juggle managing the Americans' presence and navigating a viper's nest of factions bidding for power. Meanwhile, Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.

Author : Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306821776

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Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton Pdf

Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices -- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's "Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience; and ten others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031256936

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Restationing of Troops Redeployed from Korea by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yoram Dinstein,Fania Domb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004423107

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Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 26 (1996) by Yoram Dinstein,Fania Domb Pdf

The Israel Yearbook on Human Rights - an annual published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University since 1971 - is devoted to publishing studies by distinguished scholars in Israel and other countries on human rights in peace and war, with particular emphasis on problems relevant to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The Yearbook also incorporates documentary materials, relating to Israel and the Administered Areas, which are not otherwise available in English (including summaries of judicial decisions, compilations of legislative enactments and military proclamations). Volume 26 contains amongst others articles on The Essence of Democracy; Democracy in International Relations; The Threats to Democracy; and Democracy in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015028478140

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Selected Readings from Military Thought, 1963-1973 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alvin I. Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198031769

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Simulating Minds by Alvin I. Goldman Pdf

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental realm? In this book, Alvin I. Goldman explores these questions with the tools of philosophy, developmental psychology, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He refines an approach called simulation theory, which starts from the familiar idea that we understand others by putting ourselves in their mental shoes. Can this intuitive idea be rendered precise in a philosophically respectable manner, without allowing simulation to collapse into theorizing? Given a suitable definition, do empirical results support the notion that minds literally create (or attempt to create) surrogates of other peoples mental states in the process of mindreading? Goldman amasses a surprising array of evidence from psychology and neuroscience that supports this hypothesis.