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Anatomy of Failure

Why America Loses Every War It Starts

By: Harlan Ullman

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Anatomy of Failure

Why America Loses Every War It Starts

By: Harlan Ullman

Why, since the end of World War II, has the United States either lost every war it started or failed in every military intervention it prosecuted? Harlan Ullman's new book answers this most disturbing question, a question Americans would never think of even asking because this record of failure has been largely hidden in plain sight or forgotten with the passage of time. The most straightforward answer is that presidents and administrations have consistently failed to use sound strategic thinking and lacked sufficient knowledge or understanding of the circumstances prior to deciding whether or not to employ force. Making this case is an in-depth analysis of the records of presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama and Donald Trump in using force or starting wars. His recommended solutions begin with a "brains-based" approach to sound strategic thinking to address one of the major causes of failure ----the inexperience of too many of the nation's commanders-in-chief. Ullman reinforces his argument through the use of autobiographical vignettes that provide a human dimension and insight into the reasons for failure, in some cases making public previously unknown history. The clarion call of Anatomy of Failure is that both a sound strategic framework and sufficient knowledge and understanding of the circumstance that may lead to using force are vital. Without them, failure is virtually guaranteed.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682472264

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The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large

By: Harlan Ullman

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The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large

By: Harlan Ullman

Beyond traditional threats from states such as China and Russia and non-state actors employing violent extremism, can America’s politics and political system withstand the assaults of the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption? The Covid-19 pandemic, the January 6 insurrection and takeover of the US Capitol, SolarWinds cyber attacks, the Texas storms that cut power, and the blocking of the Suez Canal are harbingers of the new MAD. And the nation is unaware and unprepared to deal with them. What must be done? First, we must recognize the potentially existential dangers posed by MAD. Second, we must reorganize government to meet these dangers. Third, we need new national security strategies to protect, defend, and mitigate these new threats. Fourth, we must create a private-public partnership in a national re-investment fund that can redress many of the risks of MAD. In this transformative and highly innovative and provocative book, Dr. Harlan Ullman issues a dramatic warning about so far unrecognized existential dangers to the nation and offers a plan of action America must take if the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD are to be tamed or broken.

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Post Hill Press

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1637581408

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A Handful of Bullets

How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan Ullman

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A Handful of Bullets

How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan Ullman

The Great War or the “War to end all wars” as promised by President Woodrow Wilson was neither great nor ultimately conclusive. Precipitated by the assassination of the Austro—Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in the streets of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, World War I demolished the order established by the Concert of Vienna, an order that had maintained the peace in Europe for almost a century. The ensuing carnage laid the foundation for World War II and the Cold War that followed. World War I also left in its catastrophic wake three transformational legacies that remain largely unnoticed today. These legacies have provoked and will continue to provoke massive change to the international order. But containing, mitigating, and preventing these disruptions from exploding into major crises will prove no less difficult a challenge than did restraining the forces that ignited the chaos and violence of the last century. These legacies would make Osama bin Laden into a modern day version of Gavrilo Princip, the Archduke’s assassin, and turn September 11, 2001 into an event like that one on June 28, 1914, in many different and frightening ways. Instead of using a Beretta 9 mm pistol, bin Laden crashed three airliners into New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., starting a global war on terror. Unfortunately, America’s current strategic mindset to deal with the twenty-first century remains firmly anchored in the previous century. That mindset must change if aspirations for peace and prosperity are to be met with decisive and effective actions. Ullman offers provocative and challenging arguments to conventional wisdom—that we fail to understand the challenges and dangers and lack a mindset to cope with these twenty-first-century realities. He argues that while the dangers are not as destructive as a world war, unless they are addressed, at best the standard of living and expectations of Americans will decline, and at worst, the world will become more violent, unpredictable, and chaotic.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612517927

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Anatomy of Failure

Why America Loses Every War It Starts

By: Harlan Ullman

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Why America Loses Every War It Starts

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Owls and Eagles

Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-cons

By: Harlan Ullman

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Owls and Eagles

Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-cons

By: Harlan Ullman

Leading national security strategist Harlan K. Ullman is well known for his aggressive, no nonsense approach to U.S. foreign policy. By his own description, he demands a smarter, realistic policy, one that is 'informed by fact and reason and not ideology and tough when it must be.' The time span of the author's columns, largely for the Washington Times , reprinted in this book is no coincidence. Owls and Eagles begins with the onset of the controversial U.S.-led war in Iraq in March 2003 and ends twenty months later, shortly after President George W. Bush's reelection. What overly ambitious, under informed goals inspired the U.S. to launch the preemptive war? What were the domestic and electoral factors that led to the president's decision? And, perhaps most importantly, what are the consequences of the unilateral war to the standing of the United States in the global community and to the legacy of George W. Bush? These are the provocative questions contemplated in this important book. In the end, the author has achieved his goal of 'informing the public and provoking them to think and to question how well or badly our nation was faring in the fight to keep us safe and secure.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742549305

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Unfinished Business

Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers That Threaten America's Security

By: Harlan Ullman

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Unfinished Business

Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers That Threaten America's Security

By: Harlan Ullman

One and a half years on from the tragedy of September 11th the most important issue facing America today remains national security. In this hard-hitting book, policy expert Ullman links those horrific acts to the unresolved legacies of the Cold War and the Gulf War - and reveals how the unfinished business of the recent past threatens the world's future. Analysing key events from the aftermath of World War II to the current campaign against bin Laden and the al Queda network, Ullman probes beyond the headlines bringing new light to bear on current issues.

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324

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Citadel Press

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0806524324

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9780806524320

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed

Essays

By: Harlan Ellison

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Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed

Essays

By: Harlan Ellison

A collection of twenty thought-provoking essays from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth” (Publishers Weekly). Harlan Ellison—master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent—has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays—nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing—that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays.

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Open Road Media

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1497604354

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Real Football

Conversations on America's Game

By: Stephen Harlan Norwood

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Real Football

Conversations on America's Game

By: Stephen Harlan Norwood

Since the 1960s, professional football has been America's most popular sport. This book explores the culture of football from the inside-from the players' perspective-the game the fans never see. Conversations are with eight top athletes, men who played in the National Football League for at least ten years, and with another who coached football for forty-five years. The players analyze the mental, physical, and emotional experience of the game at the high school, college, and professional levels, and at nearly every gridiron position. The author chooses his subjects carefully and finds articulate interpreters of this hard-edged experience. The author and the players discuss in depth a wide range of topics, including masculinity, injury, and pain, big-time college recruiting, college athletes and academics, relations with fathers and coaches, encounters with Jim Crow and desegregation, and strikes and labor relations in the NFL. Yielding full pictures of their lives and careers, these athletes go on to explore aging and their adjustments to retirement.

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436

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578066638

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DNA Based Computers III

By: Harvey Rubin,David Harlan Wood

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DNA Based Computers III

By: Harvey Rubin,David Harlan Wood

This volume presents the proceedings from the third DIMACS workshop on "DNA Based Computers" held at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). The workshop was part of the Special Year on Molecular Biology and the Special Year on DNA Computing. The focus of this workshop was on the multidisciplinary nature of the conference, with emphasis on the interaction between biology and biochemistry on one hand and computer science and mathematics on the other.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821808427

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A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan K. Ullman

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A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan K. Ullman

The Great War or the "War to end all wars" as promised by President Woodrow Wilson was neither great nor ultimately conclusive. World War I also left in its catastrophic wake three transformational legacies that remain largely unnoticed today. Ullman offers provocative and challenging arguments to conventional wisdom--that we fail to understand the challenges and dangers and lack a mindset to cope with these twenty-first-century realities.

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US Naval Institute Press

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1682476545

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The Wild Boy of Aveyron

By: Harlan Lane

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The Wild Boy of Aveyron

By: Harlan Lane

A full account of Dr. Jean-Marc Itard's work, in the early 1800s, with Victor, who had lived wild for twelve years, and of the resulting educational, psychological, anthropological, and philosophical controversies and changes.

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Harvard University Press

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0674953002

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A Handful of Bullets

How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan Ullman

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How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

By: Harlan Ullman

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Naval Institute Press

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Owls and Eagles

Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-cons

By: Harlan Ullman

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Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-cons

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Unfinished Business

Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers That Threaten America's Security

By: Harlan Ullman

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Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers That Threaten America's Security

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Citadel Press

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The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large

By: Harlan Ullman

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The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large

By: Harlan Ullman

The new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption—and not China or Russia—are the most immediate and greatest dangers to the nation. But no one has recognized and thus acted to contain and prevent these potentially existential threats that, if left unchecked, will bring ruin to America and much of the planet. Beyond traditional threats from states such as China and Russia and non-state actors employing violent extremism, can America’s politics and political system withstand the assaults of the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption? The Covid-19 pandemic, the January 6 insurrection and takeover of the US Capitol, SolarWinds cyber attacks, the Texas storms that cut power, and the blocking of the Suez Canal are harbingers of the new MAD. And the nation is unaware and unprepared to deal with them. What must be done? First, we must recognize the potentially existential dangers posed by MAD. Second, we must reorganize government to meet these dangers. Third, we need new national security strategies to protect, defend, and mitigate these new threats. Fourth, we must create a private-public partnership in a national re-investment fund that can redress many of the risks of MAD. In this transformative and highly innovative and provocative book, Dr. Harlan Ullman issues a dramatic warning about so far unrecognized existential dangers to the nation and offers a plan of action America must take if the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD are to be tamed or broken.

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1637581394

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Book's by Harlan Ullman

Anatomy of Failure

Anatomy of Failure

The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

A Handful of Bullets

A Handful of Bullets

Anatomy of Failure

Anatomy of Failure

Owls and Eagles

Owls and Eagles

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed

Real Football

Real Football

DNA Based Computers III

DNA Based Computers III

A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

A Handful of Bullets

A Handful of Bullets

Owls and Eagles

Owls and Eagles

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

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