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Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration

By: Richard D. Hooker (Jr.)

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Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration

By: Richard D. Hooker (Jr.)

Excerpt from Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration: The new administration takes office in a time of great complexity. Our new President faces a national security environment shaped by strong currents: globalization; the proliferation of new, poor, and weak states, as well as nonstate actors; an enduring landscape of violent extremist organizations; slow economic growth; the rise of China and a revanchist Russia; a collapsing Middle East; and a domestic politics wracked by division and mistrust. While in absolute terms the Nation and the world are safer than in the last century, today the United States finds itself almost on a permanent war footing, engaged in military operations around the world. [...] No formal document describes a grand strategy for the United States, and indeed, many academics deny that one exists. Yet a close look at our history as a world power suggests that core interests and how we secure them have remained generally consistent over time. If grand strategy "rises above particular strategies intended to secure particular objectives," many decades of focusing on nuclear deterrence, power projection, alliances and partnerships, and military and economic strength probably constitute the underpinnings of a coherent grand strategy. How we employ and leverage these instruments of national power to protect, defend, and advance the national interest is, after all, the essence of grand strategy. In a dangerous world, these pillars have provided a strong foundation for national security. If our domestic politics can achieve consensus on future threats and solutions, America is well positioned to lead and prosper in a world that will remain both dangerous and uncertain. R.D. Hooker, Jr. Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Washington, D.C. Related items: Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01561-0 Operationalizing Counter Threat Finance Strategies can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01131-1

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Government Printing Office

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0160937442

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9780160937446

Wrath Of Achilles: Essays On Command In Battle

By: Colonel Richard D. Hooker Jr.

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Wrath Of Achilles: Essays On Command In Battle

By: Colonel Richard D. Hooker Jr.

This anthology was inspired by its authors and the Soldiers and Marines they lead. Their experiences and reflections appear in this volume, a collection of battle studies that focus on leadership success, and failure, in the great campaigns of the last 150 years. From brigade to army group level, these lessons in battle command speak across the decades to the key questions of success in war. The authors are soldier-scholars of the first rank, some of whom are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan today and will rise to lead our military in tomorrow’s battles and campaigns. This volume includes detailed chapters on the engagements and battles below: When Mars Smiled: The Field of Mars-la-Tour Ghosts of Tannenberg -German I Corps in East Prussia, August 1914 “Lighthorse!” The Australians Take Beersheba White Death Coming: The Battle of Suomussalmi “Stout Hearts and a Worthy Cause” - The Battle of Sidi Barrani The Road to Bizerte: The 9th Division Comes of Age “Hang On! We Are Coming!” - The Relief of Chipyong-Ni “We Are Crossing Into Africa” - Adan’s Division Triumphs in Sinai Setting Sun of Empire -Goose Green: The Stuff of Instant Legend

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782893903

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9781782893905

Constructing Jesus

Memory, Imagination, and History

By: Dale C. Jr. Allison

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Constructing Jesus

Memory, Imagination, and History

By: Dale C. Jr. Allison

What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus. The acclaimed hardcover edition received the Biblical Archaeology Society's "Best Book Relating to the New Testament" award in 2011. Representing the fruit of several decades of research, this major work questions standard approaches to Jesus studies and rethinks our knowledge of the historical Jesus in light of recent progress in the scientific study of memory. Allison's groundbreaking alternative strategy calls for applying what we know about the function of human memory to our reading of the Gospels in order to "construct Jesus" more soundly.

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Baker Academic

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1441233687

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Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration

Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration

Wrath Of Achilles: Essays On Command In Battle

Wrath Of Achilles: Essays On Command In Battle

Constructing Jesus

Constructing Jesus

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