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Book Synopsis Rise of the Mavericks by : Philip Clayton Shackelford
Download or read book Rise of the Mavericks written by Philip Clayton Shackelford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the Mavericks traces the beginnings and subsequent development of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Established in 1948 as part of the emerging U.S. national security apparatus, this communications intelligence organization was meant to place the fledgling U.S. Air Force on a competitive footing with its Army and Navy counterparts. As World War II ended and the Cold War began, Air Force leaders understood that an effective cryptologic capability would be crucial for maintaining and enhancing the Air Force as a strategic and decisive component of America‘s national defense. Successfully deploying air-atomic strategy in the event of a future war would require reliable information on the capabilities, intentions—and potential targets—of an opposing force, in particular the Soviet Union. Communications intelligence would be a critical source of this information, and Air Force leaders were adamant that their service not remain dependent on other service structures for this capability. The Air Force Security Service rose to the occasion, quickly establishing itself as one of the preeminent communications intelligence agencies in the United States. Rise of the Mavericks fills the gap in the military and intelligence history literature and further complicates the literature surrounding the history of the NSA, which too often ignores or hastily addresses the contributions and role of the service COMINT agencies during the early Cold War period. The book explains how Air Force Security Service personnel were viewed as mavericks by other U.S. military and government organizations. The airmen lived up to this characterization by creating and developing an independent communications intelligence capability while persistently resisting the controlling efforts of the Armed Forces Security Agency and the National Security Agency.
Book Synopsis The Rise of The Mavericks by : Kwame Kyei Gyamfi
Download or read book The Rise of The Mavericks written by Kwame Kyei Gyamfi and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: All through the years, the world has suffered from endemic leadership drought that has only reached epic proportions in recent years. Whether in politics, in governance of nations, in business or in religious circles, the news is almost always about scandals involving people in positions of trust who failed to hold high the confidence reposed in them. When these scandals occur they leave in their wake victims who innocently trusted that these men and women would be true to their duty vows. People lose their lives, or their lifetime savings, or their jobs as a result of flawed leadership. It is to bring an end these examples of socioeconomic injustices that the call is made the rise of independent-minded leaders who would equity and justice to all regardless of race or station in life.
Book Synopsis Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War by : Philip Clayton Shackelford
Download or read book Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War written by Philip Clayton Shackelford and published by Transforming War. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales from the Dallas Mavericks Locker Room by : Jaime Aron
Download or read book Tales from the Dallas Mavericks Locker Room written by Jaime Aron and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant book celebrating the greatest stories from the Dallas Mavericks -- newly updated to include the 2011 NBA Championship!
Book Synopsis Celluloid Mavericks by : Greg Merritt
Download or read book Celluloid Mavericks written by Greg Merritt and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Filmmaking documents this rich history, showing what it meant to be "independent" in the 1930s and what it means today. Author Greg Merritt distinguishes between indie and semi-indie productions, explores the genres represented under the independent umbrella, and addresses the question of what makes a movie independent -- its "spirit" or the budget backing the production. From one-reel flicks at the turn of the century to the blockbusters of the ‘90s, Celluloid Mavericks takes readers on a fascinating tour of the industry.
Download or read book Rebel Rebel written by Chris Sullivan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates the maverick and celebrates the individual. It is an essential read for the left of field.
Book Synopsis Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by : Giles Milton
Download or read book Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare written by Giles Milton and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men—along with three others—formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
Book Synopsis The Sundance Kids by : James Mottram
Download or read book The Sundance Kids written by James Mottram and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mottram traces the roots of this generation of American film-makers to Steven Soderbergh's 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' and looks at how many kickstarted their careers and made their mark at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah or at his film festival.
Book Synopsis Resurrecting the Shark by : Susan Ewing
Download or read book Resurrecting the Shark written by Susan Ewing and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prehistoric mystery. A fossil so mesmerizing that it boggled the minds of scientists for more than a century—until a motley crew of modern day shark fanatics decided to try to bring the monster-predator back to life. In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-fish freak Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen—a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Troll's obsession with Helicoprion, a mysterious monster shark from deep time. In 2010, tattooed amateur strongman and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt was also severely smitten by a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. These two bizarre-shark disciples found each other, and an unconventional band of collaborators grew serendipitously around them, determined to solve the puzzle of the tooth whorl once and for all. Helicoprion was a Paleozoic chondrichthyan about the size of a modern great white shark, with a circular saw of teeth centered in its lower jaw—a feature unseen in the shark world before or since. For some ten million years, long before the Age of Dinosaurs, Helicoprion patrolled the shallow seas around the supercontinent Pangaea as the apex predator of its time. Just a few tumultuous years after Pruitt and Troll met, imagination, passion, scientific process, and state-of-the-art technology merged into an unstoppable force that reanimated the remarkable creature—and made important new discoveries. In this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing reveals these revolutionary insights into what Helicoprion looked like and how the tooth whorl functioned—pushing this dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the spotlight of modern science
Download or read book Money Mavericks written by Lars Kroijer and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mavericks written by Craig Alanson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first..." -- Page [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis Lowry Air Force Base by : Jack Stokes Ballard
Download or read book Lowry Air Force Base written by Jack Stokes Ballard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1937 to 1994, Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of the city of Denver, served the nation and the surrounding community in many distinguished ways. The air base, primarily a technical training center, graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography, tremendously strengthening the countrys war efforts in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. In addition, from the 1980s, Lowry Air Force Base remained one of Colorados largest employers, with approximately 10,000 military and civilian men and women, providing an economic impact approaching $1 billion annually. Thus Lowry significantly contributed to maintaining the worlds largest air force and to promoting the accelerated growth of the Denver metro area and Colorado.
Download or read book Steve Nash written by Paul Arseneault and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 4, 5, 6, e, i.
Download or read book Midlife Mavericks written by Karen Blue and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of "unmarried American and Canadian women building better lives for themselves in Mexico's beautiful colonial villages."--Cover
Book Synopsis Maverick Military Leaders by : Robert Harvey
Download or read book Maverick Military Leaders written by Robert Harvey and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 16 riveting portraits, bestselling historian Harvey offers the definitive, one-volume account of some of history's most important and surprising battlesand the commanders who won the field. 16 b&w photographs.
Book Synopsis Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by : Michael Broyles
Download or read book Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music written by Michael Broyles and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.
Book Synopsis Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks by : Cathy Cobb
Download or read book Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks written by Cathy Cobb and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science popularizer Cathy Cobb takes a unique approach to explaining the concepts of physical chemistry by telling the story of the geniuses and eccentrics who made groundbreaking discoveries in this fascinating field that bridges chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The result is entertaining and illuminating. Her tale is about the colorful varieties of human character as well as the struggles to understand the workings of the material world. Through true stories of rebels, recluses, heroes, and rogues, she helps the reader to discover how one idea built upon another and how an elegant discipline arose out of centuries of difficult trial and error. Starting with the ancient Greeks, Cobb takes the reader on a sweeping tour of history. She shows how an understanding of basic chemical properties gradually arose out of ancient Greeks mathematics, Muslim science, medieval "magick," and the healing arts. Her tour continues through the scientific revolution, the emergence of physical chemistry as an independent discipline, and up to the present. Today, physical chemists contribute to the fields of chemical physiology, chemical oscillations and waves, quantum mechanics, and the curious and promising field of nanotechnology. This absorbing, eloquently written history of science is loaded with intuitive imagery, everyday analogies, and a colorful cast of characters who are guaranteed to entertain as well as edify.
