The Eagle And The Trident

Author : Steven Pifer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815730624
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eagle and the Trident written by Steven Pifer and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet Ukraine The Eagle and the Trident provides the first comprehensive account of the development of U.S. diplomatic relations with an independent Ukraine, covering the years 1992 through 2004 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States devoted greater attention to Ukraine than any other post-Soviet state (except Russia) after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Steven Pifer, a career Foreign Service officer, worked on U.S.-Ukraine relations at the State Department and the White House during that period and also served as ambassador to Ukraine. With this volume he has written the definitive narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship between Washington and newly independent Ukraine. The relationship between the two countries moved from heady days in the mid- 1990s, when they declared a strategic partnership, to troubled times after 2002. During the period covered by the book, the United States generally succeeded in its major goals in Ukraine, notably the safe transfer of nearly 2,000 strategic nuclear weapons left there after the Soviet collapse. Washington also provided robust support for Ukraine’s effort to develop into a modern, democratic, market-oriented state. But these efforts aimed at reforming the state proved only modestly successful, leaving a nation that was not resilient enough to stand up to Russian aggression in Crimea in 2014. The author reflects on what worked and what did not work in the various U.S. approaches toward Ukraine. He also offers a practitioner’s recommendations for current U.S. policies in the context of ongoing uncertainty about the political stability of Ukraine and Russia’s long-term intentions toward its smaller but important neighbor.

Author : John Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trident: Or, the National Policy of Naval Celebration ... written by John Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Scarrow
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755350847
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2) written by Simon Scarrow and published by Headline. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon Scarrow's compelling historical novels: 'Gripping and moving' The Times Britannia, AD 43. Bleak, rainy and full of vicious savages, Britannia is a land that Cato, solider of the Second Legion, wishes Rome didn't want to conquer. And as right-hand man to Centurion Macro, Cato sees the very worst of his native Britons, battling alongside his commander in bloodier combat than he could ever have imagined. But the Britons are fighting back with Roman weapons - which means someone in their own ranks is supplying arms to the enemy. Cato and Macro are about to discover even deadlier adversaries than the British barbarians...

Author : Mir Bahmanyar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960786
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SEALs written by Mir Bahmanyar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their creation in 1983, the US Navy SEALs have been involved in unconventional warfare around the globe, undertaking crucial and clandestine missions. These have included traditional underwater missions such as in Panama in 1989, the taking down of ships and also gas and oil platforms, and more recently, sniping and other missions in land-locked countries like Afghanistan. They have adapted their training, their tactics and their weapons to enable them to remain the best in whatever task they are set. This book covers the organization of the SEALs, their famously demanding recruitment, their equipment, and their missions. The authors have interviewed many past and serving SEALs, who tell their stories in their own words.

Author : Bruce Holdt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483683788
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in San Francisco written by Bruce Holdt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first appearance of my character, Jim Swenson. This is my first novel and my character’s debut. Because I am a retired U.S. Navy officer, I wanted Jim to be a naval officer, so I made him a U.S. Navy SEAL lieutenant. I wanted him to be tough as nails with an intimidating physique, so I made him 6.5 ft. tall and 250 lbs. of solid muscle. Jim attended Stanford University and starred on their wrestling and football teams. He was a Heisman Trophy winner. Jim studied martial arts as a teenager so that he could be a great fighter and never lose a fight. However, I also made him a kind and loving person who only fights to protect himself and those people unable to protect themselves. I had him grow up in San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the world. I usually name my characters in my books. I named one of my characters Jim Swenson after one of my best friends from high school. The Marine Corps major Ed Reynolds in the following section is named after one of my business partners who has been a close friend for twenty years. Jim Swenson always wins. I wanted him to be able to do things that all of us want to be able to do. To stand strong and unafraid, never back down, and always ready with an intelligent reply. I made him wealthy so he could do what he wants to do and never need to rely on anyone but himself. I want my readers to be like Jim Swenson. I hope you do!

Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476684995
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putin Confronts the West written by René De La Pedraja and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's surprising return to the world stage since 2000 has aroused the curiosity--if not the fear--of the West. Gradually, the Kremlin went from a policy of deference to foreign powers to acting with independence. The driver of this transformation was President Vladimir Putin, who with skillful caution navigated Russia back into the ranks of global powers. In theaters of conflict such as Georgia, Syria and Ukraine, the Kremlin won significant victories at little cost to consolidate its decisive position. Following a chronological approach from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present, this book draws on new documents to describe how Russia regained its former global prominence. Clear accounts of key decisions and foreign policy events--many presented for the first time--provide important insights into the major confrontations with the West.

Author : Douglas R. Burgess
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071430098
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seize the Trident written by Douglas R. Burgess and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The superliners of the Gilded Age so eclipsed their predecessors in size, splendor, and speed that they remain potent symbols of elegance, arrogance, and industrial might nearly a century after the last ones were built. They carried a flood of immigrants to America even as they reflected and magnified the frightening forces that were pushing Europe blindly into World War I. In a crowning irony, Germany's prize liners were used against her to carry American doughboys to the trenches of Europe." "Seize the Trident is a parable of imperial ambitions and ultimate tragedy set against the ostentatious backdrop of the Edwardian age, when dreams had no limits and the only standard of supremacy was excess."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Howard E. Wasdin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451682980
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Easy Day for the Dead written by Howard E. Wasdin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infusing the hardcore intensity of their New York Times bestselling memoir, SEAL Team Six, into two pulse-pounding novels, Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin plunge readers into the electrifying action of the Outcasts, the elite SEAL warriors who covertly defy the rules when America’s safety is on the line. They are the heroes the world will never know… Working under the radar in Special Ops unit Bitter Ash, these men and women take on the missions no one else wants. Every op is the highest possible risk and any moment could be their last. Now, they must parachute into the harsh desert on the border with Afghanistan, to meet a beautiful agent who will lead them to an Iranian biological warfare site they are to destroy with a suitcase-size nuke. And, like most missions, nothing goes according to plan, with a maniacal Revolutionary Guard officer a razor’s edge away from exposing them. Then the team must free a hostage in Lebanon before the fight takes them halfway around the world—in a frantic battle of courage and stealth that America cannot afford to lose.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gideon Delaplaine Scull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Montresor Journals written by Gideon Delaplaine Scull and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: