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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009364170

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Coercion, Survival, and War

Why Weak States Resist the United States

By: Phil Haun

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Coercion, Survival, and War

Why Weak States Resist the United States

By: Phil Haun

In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival—but not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to escalate a conflict into a crisis by adopting a coercive strategy. In practice, however, the coercive strategies of the U.S. have frequently failed. In Coercion, Survival and War Phil Haun chronicles 30 asymmetric interstate crises involving the US from 1918 to 2003. The U.S. chose coercive strategies in 23 of these cases, but coercion failed half of the time: most often because the more powerful U.S. made demands that threatened the very survival of the weak state, causing it to resist as long as it had the means to do so. It is an unfortunate paradox Haun notes that, where the U.S. may prefer brute force to coercion, these power asymmetries may well lead it to first attempt coercive strategies that are expected to fail in order to justify the war it desires. He concludes that, when coercion is preferred to brute force there are clear limits as to what can be demanded. In such cases, he suggests, U.S. policymakers can improve the chances of success by matching appropriate threats to demands, by including other great powers in the coercive process, and by reducing a weak state leader's reputational costs by giving him or her face-saving options.

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Stanford University Press

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080479507X

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

By: Phil Haun

This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Commando Hunt, and Linebacker air campaigns, independently air power repeatedly failed to achieve US military and political objectives. In contrast, air forces in combined arms operations succeeded more often than not. In addition to predicting how armies will react to a lethal air threat, he identifies operational factors of air superiority, air-to-ground capabilities, and friendly ground force capabilities, along with environmental factors of weather, lighting, geography and terrain, and cover and concealment in order to explain air power effectiveness. The book concludes with analysis of modern air warfare since Vietnam along with an assessment of tactical air power relevance now and for the future.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009364189

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The Book of Imaginary Indians

Ancient Traditions and Modern Caricatures In the White Man's Quest For Meaning

By: Phil Hart

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The Book of Imaginary Indians

Ancient Traditions and Modern Caricatures In the White Man's Quest For Meaning

By: Phil Hart

Mathematicians often use imaginary numbers to compute formulas that cannot be completed with real numbers. In the same way, modern philosophers and religious leaders sometimes use the imaginary philosophies of imaginary Indians to form a basis for their own profound and spiritual systems of thought. The Book of Imaginary Indians examines several such philosophies, focusing especially on Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon and Hyemeyohsts Storm's Seven Arrows. It then examines what some actual Indians believe in and why that should matter to non-Indians who want to use Indian philosophies as a basis of their own belief systems. Phil Hart, a student of religion and cultures, researched an array of concepts including creation myths, Jung, archetypes, medicine wheels, vision quests, Mormon philosophies, and a variety of religions to create this compendium of information about Native American and new age culture. He discovers that despite all of the differences, threads of commonality unite all people everywhere and that no one has a total monopoly on the truth.

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200

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iUniverse

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0595435033

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9780595435036

Teaching Geography, Third Edition

By: Phil Gersmehl

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Teaching Geography, Third Edition

By: Phil Gersmehl

Keywords: assessments, CCSS, CD-ROM, Common Core standards, Common Core State Standards, children, classrooms, content areas, curriculum, education, elementary, geography, instruction, learning, methods, middle, pedagogy, schools, science, secondary, social studies, spatial-thinking skills, standards, students, teachers, teaching This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K/n-/12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world. The Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM features more than 225 reproducible student activities; a Model Curriculum; PowerPoint slides of the book's figures and discussion guides that focus on important concepts in each chapter; specially designed K-2 resources; teaching notes with links to Common Core State Standards and Geography Standards; and more. New to This Edition *Chapter on geography in the curriculum. *Chapter appendix on the neuroscience of spatial reasoning. *CD-ROM features additional graphics, many new activities, and a Model Curriculum. *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. "--

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Guilford Publications

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1462516416

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9781462516414

Dig

Sound and Music in Hip Culture

By: Phil Ford

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Dig

Sound and Music in Hip Culture

By: Phil Ford

Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienation from society--alienation due not to any specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of perception and consciousness. From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus to define himself against this system, to resist being stamped in its uniform, squarish mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity. Indeed, for many avant-garde subcultures music is their raison d'être. Hip intellectuals conceived of sound itself as a way of challenging meaning--that which is cognitive and abstract, timeless and placeless--with experience--that which is embodied, concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie Parker's "Ornithology," Ken Nordine's "Sound Museum," Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," and a range of other illuminating examples, Ford shows why and how music came to be at the center of hipness. Shedding new light on an enigmatic concept, Dig is essential reading for students and scholars of popular music and culture, as well as anyone fascinated by the counterculture movement of the mid-twentieth-century. Publication of this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Oxford University Press

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0199331022

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9780199331024

Coercion, Survival, and War

Why Weak States Resist the United States

By: Phil Haun

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Why Weak States Resist the United States

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Stanford Security Studies

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0804792836

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A-10s Over Kosovo

The Victory of Airpower Over a Fielded Army as Told by Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force

By: Phil M. Haun

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A-10s Over Kosovo

The Victory of Airpower Over a Fielded Army as Told by Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force

By: Phil M. Haun

First published in 2003. The NATO-led Operation Allied Force was fought in 1999 to stop Serb atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This war, as noted by the distinguished military historian John Keegan, "marked a real turning point . . . and proved that a war can be won by airpower alone." Colonels Haave and Haun have organized firsthand accounts of some of the people who provided that airpower-the members of the 40th Expeditionary Operations Group. Their descriptions-a new wingman's first combat sortie, a support officer's view of a fighter squadron relocation during combat, and a Sandy's leadership in finding and rescuing a downed F-117 pilot-provide the reader with a legitimate insight into an air war at the tactical level and the airpower that helped convince the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, to capitulate.

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1839310707

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9781839310706

A-10s Over Kosovo

The Victory of Airpower Over a Fielded Army as Told by Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force

By: Phil M. Haun,Christopher E. Haave,Air University Press

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A-10s Over Kosovo

The Victory of Airpower Over a Fielded Army as Told by Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force

By: Phil M. Haun,Christopher E. Haave,Air University Press

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www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK

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1780392761

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Any Guru Will Do

A Modern Man's Search for Meaning

By: Phil Brown

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A Modern Man's Search for Meaning

By: Phil Brown

A humorous look at a usually lofty and intimidating topic—the meaning of life—this book documents one man's uphill journey to enlightenment. Explaining the attractions (and pitfalls) of a pick-and-choose approach, the discussion covers Eastern and Western beliefs, all the while elucidating their practices through personal anecdotes. An attack of existentialism, a dogged attempt to discover God through poetry, a doomed "holiday" at a health farm, and time spent at a ritual Egyptian dance workshop are some of the instructive stories offered, complete with such odd characters as a saffron-turbaned Dadaji, the poet Les Murray, and a Catholic priest who stops taking the author's calls.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702258482

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9780702258480

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Coercion, Survival, and War

Coercion, Survival, and War

Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

The Book of Imaginary Indians

The Book of Imaginary Indians

Teaching Geography, Third Edition

Teaching Geography, Third Edition

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Dig

Coercion, Survival, and War

Coercion, Survival, and War

A-10s Over Kosovo

A-10s Over Kosovo

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