Unarmed Forces

Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724002
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unarmed Forces written by Matthew Evangelista and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote ideas and policies that would lessen this danger. Two of their organizations—the Pugwash movement and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War—won Nobel Peace Prizes. Still, many observers believe that their influence was negligible and that the Reagan administration deserves sole credit for ending the Cold War. The first book to explore the impact these activists had on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain, Unarmed Forces demonstrates the importance of their efforts on behalf of arms control and disarmament.Matthew Evangelista examines the work of transnational peace movements throughout the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras and into the first years of Boris Yeltsin's leadership. Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives and on interviews with Russian and Western activists and policymakers, he investigates the sources of Soviet policy on nuclear testing, strategic defense, and conventional forces. Evangelista concludes that transnational actors at times played a crucial role in influencing Soviet policy—specifically in encouraging moderate as opposed to hard-line responses—for they supplied both information and ideas to that closed society. Evangelista's findings challenge widely accepted views about the peaceful resolution of the Cold War. By revealing the connection between a state's domestic structure and its susceptibility to the influence of transnational groups, Unarmed Forces will also stimulate thinking about the broader issue of how government policy is shaped.

Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487842
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unarmed Forces written by Matthew Evangelista and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Cold War, people from both East and West, among them prominent scienstists and physicians, formed networks to promote antinuclear ideas. This book examines the influence of these networks.

Author : Montagu W. W. P. Consett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Unarmed Forces (1914-1918) ... written by Montagu W. W. P. Consett and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ron Shillingford
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312264369
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elite Forces Handbook of Unarmed Combat written by Ron Shillingford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines techniques used by special forces around the world: the lethal strikes of the Spetsnaz, locks and constrictions used by the Egyptian special forces, U.S. Army throws and holds, and elementary methods taught to Britain's Parachute Regiment.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428916857
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Armed Forces Officer written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Jenkins
Publisher : Feral Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780999293782
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steps Ascending written by Leo Jenkins and published by Feral Productions. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable true story of a group of former Special Operation soldiers turned entrepreneurs on a mission to end the war in Afghanistan with business, not bullets. -Every copy purchased sends a girl in Afghanistan to school.-This limited 1st edition is available only for a very short time.

Author : Richard Moody Swain
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160937583
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Armed Forces Officer written by Richard Moody Swain and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.

Author : Martin Dougherty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036785
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat written by Martin Dougherty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If taking flight isn't an option, fighting is a necessity. Extreme Unarmed Combat is the authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques, from fistfights to headlocks, from tackling single unarmed opponents to armed groups, from stance to manoeuvring.Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat's structure considers the different fighting and martial arts skills an individual can use before having to consider at the areas of the body to defend. It teaches how to attack without getting hurt, and how to incapacitate an opponent. With more than 120 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything a person need to know about what to do when escaping trouble isn't an option. This book can save lives.

Author : Morris J. MacGregor
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 written by Morris J. MacGregor and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the quarter century that followed American entry into World War II, the nation's armed forces moved from the reluctant inclusion of a few segregated Negroes to their routine acceptance in a racially integrated military establishment. Nor was this change confined to military installations. By the time it was over, the armed forces had redefined their traditional obligation for the welfare of their members to include a promise of equal treatment for black servicemen wherever they might be. In the name of equality of treatment and opportunity, the Department of Defense began to challenge racial injustices deeply rooted in American society. For all its sweeping implications, equality in the armed forces obviously had its pragmatic aspects. In one sense it was a practical answer to pressing political problems that had plagued several national administrations. In another, it was the services' expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism. But to a considerable extent the policy of racial equality that evolved in this quarter century was also a response to the need for military efficiency. So easy did it become to demonstrate the connection between inefficiency and discrimination that, even when other reasons existed, military efficiency was the one most often evoked by defense officials to justify a change in racial policy."_x000D_ Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., received the A.B. and M.A. degrees in history from the Catholic University of America. He continued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Paris on a Fulbright grant. Before joining the staff of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1968 he served for ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Stephen Pickard
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
ISBN 13 : 3374071880
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Military written by Stephen Pickard and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous. This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldier's responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces.