Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Author : David W. Wragg
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750924740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory written by David W. Wragg and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At many points in the 20th century, failures in command or political direction have resulted in military campaigns and operations failing to achieve their objectives. This text explores a selection of such instances including Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs, the Falklands and Serbia in 1999.

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ISBN 13 : 0195093542
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Dictionary of Eponyms written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah M. Gaughran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory written by Sarah M. Gaughran and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert R. Owens
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1594672954
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Won the Vietnam War!, Or, How the Left Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory written by Robert R. Owens and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert R. Owens
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1612150942
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution Failed written by Robert R. Owens and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you say, "The Constitution failed?" Don't you mean, "We failed the Constitution?" Or is that a distinction without a difference? Since the declared and understood purpose to the writing and ratification of the Constitution was to create and sustain a limited government and since We the People now face an unlimited government Dr. Owens maintains we face the painful reality, "The Constitution failed." As a member of the Richmond Tea Party and a contributing author to the websites of numerous Tea Parties across the fruited plane Dr. Robert Owens, the author of the History of the Future builds upon Dispatches from that History to show not only that the Constitution has failed but that in many ways that failure was foretold before it was ever ratified by the arguments of the Anti-Federalists. He then goes on to offer recommendations for how We the People can organize and advocate for a solution which will preserve liberty in the land of the free and the home of the brave."

Author : Colin McNairn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632208989
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In a Manner of Speaking written by Colin McNairn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do “the whole kit and caboodle,” “the whole shebang,” “the whole megillah,” “the whole enchilada,” “the whole nine yards,” “the whole box and dice,” and “the full Monty” have in common? They’re all expressions that mean “the entire quantity,” and they’re all examples of the breadth and depth of the English-speaking world’s vocabulary. From the multitude of words and phrases in daily use, the author of this delightful exploration into what we say and why we say it zeroes in on those expressions and sayings and their variations that are funny, quirky, just plain folksy, or playfully dressed up in rhyme or alliteration. Some may have become clichés that, as it’s said with “tongue in cheek,” should be “avoided like the plague.” Others have been distorted, deemed politically incorrect, or shrouded in mystery and must bear some explanation. Among the topics the author delves into are expressions that shouldn’t be taken literally (“dressed to kill” and “kick the bucket”), foreign expressions that crept into English (“carte blanche,” “carpe diem,” and “que sera, sera”), phrases borrowed from print ads and TV commercials (“where there’s life, there’s Bud” and “where the rubber meets the road”), animal images (“a barrel of monkeys” and “chasing your tail”), and food and drink (“cast your bread upon the water,” “chew the fat,” “bottom’s up!”, and “drink as a lord”). Here’s a book for everyone who delights in the mysteries of language and the perfect gift for all the “wordies” in your life.

Author : Oliver North
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0895260379
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Stories written by Oliver North and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from his tour as an embedded journalist in Iraq, bestselling author Oliver North reports in living detail the story of the real Iraq War.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030024102X
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has proven notoriously difficult—especially given his relentless travel, tight control of his own image, and the complexity of governing the world’s first transatlantic empire. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world’s leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. In Emperor, he explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles’s achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler’s life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles’s reign and views the world through the emperor’s own eyes.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380564576
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Language written by William Safire and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on slang, jargon, and neologisms.

Author : Richard C. Thornton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490748415
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reagan Revolution Iii written by Richard C. Thornton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of the Reagan Revolution series recounts the president's successful defeat of the Soviet drive for global hegemony--for strategic weaons superiority, political domination of the Eurasian landmass, and decisive leverage over world oil. In volumes I and II of this study I analyzed the president's decisions to jettison the failed strategy of detente and seek victory in the Cold War. In broadening the nation's economic base to sustain a more powerful military capability, he confronted the Soviet military challenge. Simultaneously, he worked to rebuild the Western Alliance, which had disintegrated during the detente years. In this volume I show how Reagan foiled the Soviet drive for strategic weapons superiority with a complex, high technology weapons buildup and a surprise shift to strategic defense, inaugurating a fundmental change in the national security equation. He neutralized the Soviet attempt to dominate the Eurasian landmass with the SS-20 missile by deploying the Pershing II/cruise missile package to Western Europe. And he blocked the Soviet drive to shift Iran into its orbit thereby preserving the secure flow of oil to the west and opening the door to an improvement of reltions with Iran. Recognizing that the Soviet Union was overextended, fueling revolutionary movements on four continents and deeply mired in Afghanistan, the president raised the costs of competition for the Soviet economy already laboring under the heavy burden large-scale military expenditures. He worked for reduced energy prices, reducing Soviet hard-currency earnings, while at the same time blocking the transfer of high technology upon which the Soviet Union depended to remain competitive with the United States. By the middle of 1984 the Soviet leadership concluded that its strategy had failed and would have to be changed.