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Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

A Detailed Program For The 1980s

By: Andrew J. Goodpastor,Gen Rtd,Andrew J Goodpastor

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Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

A Detailed Program For The 1980s

By: Andrew J. Goodpastor,Gen Rtd,Andrew J Goodpastor

The European Security Study (ESECS) published its Report on "Strengthening Conventional Deterrence in Europe" in May 1983. The Study was prompted by concern about the relation of NATO dependence on the early use of nuclear weapons to its primary purpose of maintaining secure peace with freedom in the NATO region.

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1000313328

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9781000313321

Breach of Trust

How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

By: Andrew J. Bacevich

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Breach of Trust

How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

By: Andrew J. Bacevich

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules The United States has been "at war" in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and veterans and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do." In Breach of Trust, bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Among the collateral casualties are values once considered central to democratic practice, including the principle that responsibility for defending the country should rest with its citizens. Citing figures as diverse as the martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the marine-turned-anti-warrior Smedley Butler, Breach of Trust summons Americans to restore that principle. Rather than something for "other people" to do, national defense should become the business of "we the people." Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, Bacevich warns, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy—moral as well as fiscal.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0805096035

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9780805096033

Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

By: Andrew Brown,Graeme Small

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Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

By: Andrew Brown,Graeme Small

This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print.

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Manchester University Press

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1526112841

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9781526112842

Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

A Detailed Program For The 1980s

By: Andrew J. Goodpastor,Gen Rtd,Andrew J Goodpastor

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A Detailed Program For The 1980s

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Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

Breach of Trust

Breach of Trust

Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

Strengthening Conventional Deterrence In Europe

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