A trying story about the glamour of worldly power versus divinely inspired inner peace creating a battlefield within Albert's soul. Albert grows into manhood being from a humble family that has to overcome world prejudices against his family. He unconsciously uses those ill feelings to fuel his drive to obtain the power to make changes, he thinks will benefit mankind. Albert's ambitious and charismatic personality propels his career in an unprecedented manner, one that can be the envy of all aspiring young executives. However, Albert's talents given to him to spend wisely while on earth could be taken from him if he fails to repent. He must choose between worldly glamour and riches or seek God's inner peace. Keith was born March 1, 1960, in Austin, Texas. He lived in Maryland during his elementary school years, and then moved to Texas in 1972. He graduated from Nimitz High School in Irving, Texas, in 1978. After high school Keith left Texas for the U.S. Navy, and served in the submarine community until 1987. He was selected in the Navy's Officer Candidate program, and received his BS in Electrical Engineering Technology and his Navy Commission in 1990 from Old Dominion University. Keith retired from the Navy in 1994, and was hired by Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding where he is currently employed. Keith received his Masters Degree in Information Systems from Strayer University in 2006. Keith lives in Virginia with his wife Rosemary, and their three sons, James, Ryan and Shawn.
The remarkable true story of Eugene Fluckey, the US Navy’s most innovative—and aggressive—submarine commander of World War II Over the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese warships and merchant vessels. At the helm of the USS Barb, he directed his boat to attack warship convoys—never mind the lop-sided odds—and to slip into heavily defended enemy harbors to launch torpedoes at unsuspecting targets. “Lucky” Fluckey’s submariners often attacked from the surface, brazenly sinking the enemy with the Barb’s deck guns. Once, he even sent sailors ashore on one Japanese island on a perilous mission to blow up a Japanese train. Fluckey and his crew sent an astounding seventeen enemy ships, including an aircraft carrier, to the bottom of the sea. In Torpedo Run, acclaimed naval historian Don Keith dives into the most thrilling and dangerous tales of Fluckey’s war, as he guides his gallant crew against the Japanese fleet. For his heroism and intrepidity, Fluckey earned four Navy Crosses and the Medal of Honor, and showed what a submarine—and he—was capable of.
The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and military experts critically examine eight basic assumptions of Minimum Deterrence against available evidence. In general, Minimum Deterrence does not fare well under the careful scrutiny. Proponents of a "Minimum Deterrent" US nuclear force posture believe that anywhere from a handful to a few hundred nuclear weapons are adequate to deter reliably and predictably any enemy from attacking the United States now and in the future. Because nuclear weapons are so destructive, their thinking goes, no foreign leader would dare challenge US capabilities. The benefits, advocates claim, of reducing US nuclear weapons to the "minimum" level needed are: better relations with Russia and China, reinforcement of the arms control and Nonproliferation Treaty, billions of defense dollars in savings, and greater international stability on the way to "nuclear zero." As political pressure builds to pursue this vision of minimum US deterrence, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence stands as the seminal study to address the many claims of great benefit using available evidence. This book was published as a special issue of Comparative Strategy.
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE HUNTER KILLER—STARRING GERARD BUTLER AND GARY OLDMAN A submarine captain races to prevent World War III in this thrilling adventure. Below the polar ice cap, an American nuclear submarine moves quietly in the freezing water, tailing a new Russian sub. But the usual, unspoken game of hide-and-seek between opposing captains is ended when the Americans hear sounds of disaster and flooding, and the Russian sub sinks in a thousand feet of water. The American sub rushes to help, only to join its former quarry in the deep. The situation ignites tensions around the world. As both Washington and Moscow prepare for what may be the beginnings of World War III, the USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location to give aid. He soon discovers that the incident was no accident. And the men behind it have yet to make their final move. A move only Glass can stop.
The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GERARD BUTLER AND GARY OLDMAN A submarine captain races to prevent World War III in this thrilling adventure. Below the polar ice cap, an American nuclear submarine moves quietly in the freezing water, tailing a new Russian sub. But the usual, unspoken game of hide-and-seek between opposing captains is ended when the Americans hear sounds of disaster and flooding, and the Russian sub sinks in a thousand feet of water. The American sub rushes to help, only to join its former quarry in the deep. The situation ignites tensions around the world. As both Washington and Moscow prepare for what may be the beginnings of World War III, the USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location to give aid. He soon discovers that the incident was no accident. And the men behind it have yet to make their final move. A move only Glass can stop. Previously Published As Firing Point
Leviathan—the world's largest Typhoon-type vessel, a subcarrier equipped with the most advanced twenty-first-century laser technology and the ultimate weapon—a fast, agile fleet of SFV-4B Barracudas, the undersea version of the world's hottest new fighter plane. The ultimate undersea challenge Fresh from bloody battle off the coast of Cuba, Leviathan rides out to meet trouble at its source—Alexandria. There the formidable Islamic navy and its allies gather, sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar to block South American oil supplies and bring America to its knees. Challenged by the Teigei, a Japanese supersub whose superior technology matches Leviathan's, Commander T. Morgan Gray, ace Navy pilot, must lead his intrepid men into a chilling undersea battle—one where only their daring, skill, and courage can snatch victory from the jaws of death and devastating final defeat.
The threat of nuclear war hangs over Europe and Axia as the Commonwealth of Independent States shatters into pieces. As a civil war escalates, Captain Matthew Tombstone Magruder and the Jefferson's Battle Group launch an assault to stop the deployment of Russian Typhoon submarines.
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