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Afghanistan War

A Documentary and Reference Guide

By: Ryan Wadle

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Afghanistan War

A Documentary and Reference Guide

By: Ryan Wadle

Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students investigating the war in Afghanistan, this book highlights the evolution of the conflict through the documents that helped to shape it. This carefully curated primary source collection includes more than 80 documents from the national and international participants in nearly four decades of conflict that led to the Afghanistan War. Readers will gain an understanding of the macro and micro costs of the war on the participants and the political, social, economic, and military factors that have allowed the fighting to persist. Authored by a former member of the Afghanistan Study Team at the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute, readers will gain special insight into the military dynamics of the war in Afghanistan and how the war has changed those who have fought in it. The book is divided into four chapters that cover the primary phases of the war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and Civil War, 1979–2001; Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Reconstruction Begins, 2001–2003; The Taliban Return, 2003–2009; and The Surge, Drawdown, and an Uncertain Future, 2009–2017. This structure enables readers to clearly understand how the war evolved and the most significant developments that shaped each period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216042709

Selling Sea Power

Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917–1941

By: Ryan D. Wadle

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Selling Sea Power

Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917–1941

By: Ryan D. Wadle

The accepted narrative of the interwar U.S. Navy is one of transformation from a battle-centric force into a force that could fight on the “three planes” of war: in the skies, on the water, and under the waves. The political and cultural tumult that accompanied this transformation is another story. Ryan D. Wadle’s Selling Sea Power explores this little-known but critically important aspect of naval history. After World War I, the U.S. Navy faced numerous challenges: a call for naval arms limitation, the ascendancy of air power, and budgetary constraints exacerbated by the Great Depression. Selling Sea Power tells the story of how the navy met these challenges by engaging in protracted public relations campaigns at a time when the means and methods of reaching the American public were undergoing dramatic shifts. While printed media continued to thrive, the rapidly growing film and radio industries presented new means by which the navy could connect with politicians and the public. Deftly capturing the institutional nuances and the personalities in play, Wadle tracks the U.S. Navy’s at first awkward but ultimately successful manipulation of mass media. At the same time, he analyzes what the public could actually see of the service in the variety of media available to them, including visual examples from progressively more sophisticated—and effective—public relations campaigns. Integrating military policy and strategy with the history of American culture and politics, Selling Sea Power offers a unique look at the complex links between the evolution of the art and industry of persuasion and the growth of the modern U.S. Navy, as well as the connections between the workings of communications and public relations and the command of military and political power.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806164190

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9780806164199

Environmental and Low Temperature Geochemistry

By: Peter Ryan

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Environmental and Low Temperature Geochemistry

By: Peter Ryan

Environmental and Low-Temperature Geochemistry presents conceptual and quantitative principles of geochemistry in order to foster understanding of natural processes at and near the earth’s surface, as well as anthropogenic impacts on the natural environment. It provides the reader with the essentials of concentration, speciation and reactivity of elements in soils, waters, sediments and air, drawing attention to both thermodynamic and kinetic controls. Specific features include: • An introductory chapter that reviews basic chemical principles applied to environmental and low-temperature geochemistry • Explanation and analysis of the importance of minerals in the environment • Principles of aqueous geochemistry • Organic compounds in the environment • The role of microbes in processes such as biomineralization, elemental speciation and reduction-oxidation reactions • Thorough coverage of the fundamentals of important geochemical cycles (C, N, P, S) • Atmospheric chemistry • Soil geochemistry • The roles of stable isotopes in environmental analysis • Radioactive and radiogenic isotopes as environmental tracers and environmental contaminants • Principles and examples of instrumental analysis in environmental geochemistry The text concludes with a case study of surface water and groundwater contamination that includes interactions and reactions of naturally-derived inorganic substances and introduced organic compounds (fuels and solvents), and illustrates the importance of interdisciplinary analysis in environmental geochemistry. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying environmental/low T geochemistry as part of an earth science, environmental science or related program. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/ryan/geochemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405186127

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9781405186124

Afghanistan War

A Documentary and Reference Guide

By: Ryan Wadle

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A Documentary and Reference Guide

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Greenwood

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1440857466

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Selling Sea Power

Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917–1941

By: Ryan D. Wadle

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Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917–1941

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806164204

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Hammer Down

The Battle for the Watapur Valley, 2011

By: Ryan Wadle

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Hammer Down

The Battle for the Watapur Valley, 2011

By: Ryan Wadle

The study that follows will first provide a general overview of the geographic, cultural, and historical factors which shaped the Watapur Valley and its population. In the chapter that follows, this account will detail the ways in which coalition forces attempted to use both lethal and non-lethal operations to solve the problems posed by the Watapur between 2005 and 2010. HAMMER DOWN, TF Cacti's focused offensive operation against insurgent elements in the valley, becomes the focus of the remaining chapters. The conclusion seeks to provide key factors that highlight the experience of US soldiers in the Watapur during HAMMER DOWN, and by extension, offer general insights about how the US Army attempted to engage the isolated regions of Afghanistan that resemble the Watapur"--Page 2.

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1940804035

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