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The Spartan Initiative

Author : Robert A. Tayler
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1647188547
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Spartan Initiative written by Robert A. Tayler and published by BookLocker.com, Inc. . This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand years ago, ancient Sparta developed a training system called the Agoge that produced the fiercest warriors the world had ever seen. It was said that one Spartan soldier was the equal to four enemy soldiers, and Sparta's system was the envy of the known world. Can't get around the facts. I'm a lethal government operative, trained from an early age. Guns, planes, hands-didn't matter, I'm proficient with them all. I'm irrationally drawn to Raisa Sokolov, a beautiful, mysterious Russian woman thrust into my life through a bizarre set of circumstances. Thirdly, certain experiences haunted me more than Moby Dick vexed Ahab. Could I function effectively in light of everything I'd seen and done? Should I take the CIA's warnings about Raisa seriously? Fast forward to April 1967. The United States was in crisis, younger generations revolting after years of war in Southeast Asia. A desperate President Johnson signs off on a program designed to find the best and brightest among America's youth, children who could be taught from an early age to embrace devotion to the country. A program that eerily resembled that of Sparta's. Seven-year-old Damon Harker, who possesses extraordinary mental and physical skills, is among those chosen. His parents grudgingly give permission for Damon to enter this new "educational enhancement" program, ignorant of its military bent. Damon is forced to lie to them about what he is really doing, which tears at his psyche. As Damon grows he and his fellow "Spartans" are pushed into hostile environments as their handlers test them to gauge the effectiveness of the training. Damon's military prowess is called upon again and again, his skills and intelligence enabling he and his team of covert operatives to complete seemingly impossible missions. But are his handlers treating him more like a machine than a person, downplaying the psychological toll these operations are taking on a young boy / man? While dealing with past memories, Damon must confront a monstrous evil in his hometown, where he meets the beautiful, mysterious Raisa Sokolov, seven years his senior. He engages soldiers of the shadowy Lashkar Legion, suffering grievous injuries in the process. Raisa is tasked with helping nurse him back to health, but can she be trusted, or is she not exactly what she seems? The CIA harbors many suspicions about her, but is mercurial CIA officer Steve Tolliver a friend or foe?

New Principles of War

Author : Marvin Pokrant
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124616
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book New Principles of War written by Marvin Pokrant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenced in part by the writings of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Henri Jomini, and other strategists, most major militaries have adopted principles of war that are widely promulgated. Marvin Pokrant argues that these commonly accepted principles fail to reflect the ideas that led to them. Looking at the fundamental and enduring concepts behind the original principles of war, Pokrant presents nine new principles of war. To illustrate his points Pokrant uses numerous examples drawn from military history, including land, sea, and air warfare from ancient times to the present. By analyzing and reforming the principles of war, Pokrant provides a modern, relevant, and useful way to guide decisions made in times of war.

Sparta

Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1914535200
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Sparta written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least in the range of its contributors. The authors of the fourteen new papers represent nine different countries and demonstrate many of the fertile modern approaches to the history, the archaeology - and the still-influential image - of the city on the Eurotas.

The Ambition to Rule

Author : Steven Forde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745786
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ambition to Rule written by Steven Forde and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fresh examination of Thucydides' treatment of Alcibiades in his History of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades' significance in the History, and his relation to Thucydides' political themes.

Athens and Boiotia

Author : Roy van Wijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009340581
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Athens and Boiotia written by Roy van Wijk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was distinctive and complex. Moving between diplomatic normative behaviour, commemorative practice and the lived experience in the borderlands, he offers a close analysis of literary sources, combined with recent archaeological and epigraphic material, to reveal an aspect to neighbourly relations that has hitherto escaped attention. He argues that case studies such as the Mazi plain and Oropos show that territorial disputes were not a mainstay in diplomatic interactions and that commemorative practices in Panhellenic and local sanctuaries do not reflect an innate desire to castigate the neighbour. The book breaks new ground by reconstructing a more positive and polyvalent appreciation of neighbourly relations based on the local lived experience. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Aristophanes

Author : Carlo Ferdinando Russo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134735383
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Aristophanes written by Carlo Ferdinando Russo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Ferdinando Russo's book has been a seminal work on Aristophanes since its publication in Italy in 1962. In his detailed analysis, Russo considers the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage. This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Now finally available in English and much-updated, it is essential reading for any student of Athenian comedy.

Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

Author : Philip Matyszak
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473874742
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation written by Philip Matyszak and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat. Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nation—even as its warriors remained invincible on the battlefield. The Spartans believed their society was above the changes sweeping their world. And by resisting change, they were doomed to be overwhelmed by it. But the Spartans refused to accept total defeat, and for many years their city exercised influence far beyond its size and population. This is a chronicle of political failure—one rich in heroes, villains, epic battles and political skullduggery. But it is also a lesson in how to go down fighting. Even with the Roman legions set to overwhelm their city, the Spartans never gave up

Seize the High Ground

Author : James A. Walker
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Seize the High Ground written by James A. Walker and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.

Lessons from the Past

Author : Frances Anne Pownall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025678
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the Past written by Frances Anne Pownall and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

Rulers of the Sea

Author : John Nash
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311134293X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Rulers of the Sea written by John Nash and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use of naval power combined with land power had a defining impact on the period. After an examination of the oft-overlooked practical issues of navigation and administration, the book explores the idea of a ‘maritime consciousness’ in Greece and how this shaped the way the Greeks engaged in war. Naval operations from the Persian Wars down to the rise of Thebes are examined at the operational and strategic level, including a catalogue of the hundreds of different maritime operations from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. Further, while the great sea power Athens is most prominent, it looks at other city-states to examine how they utilised sea power. This new approach uses modern theory to highlight some enduring lessons of sea power. It demonstrates that Classical scholars should embrace sea power as an important concept in the Greek world. Modern scholars of naval and strategic studies should cast their gaze further back in time when looking for lessons in sea power. This book helps to bridge the scholarship between these two disciplines.

A Companion to Archaic Greece

Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118451384
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Archaic Greece written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period. The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic Greece Places Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical context Gives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer subjects like gender and ethnicity Combines accounts of historical developments with regional surveys of archaeological evidence and in-depth treatments of selected themes Explores the impact of Eastern and other non-Greek cultures in the development of Greece Uses archaeological and literary evidence to reconstruct broad patterns of social and cultural development

Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy

Author : Robert J. Buck
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515072212
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy written by Robert J. Buck and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Die wissenschaftliche Welt wie alle an der Geschichte Griechenlands im klassischen Zeitalter Interessierten ueberhaupt, haben B. fuer einen wertvollen und originellen Beitrag zur althistorischen Diskussion, vor allem aber fuer eine nuetzliche und konzise Monographie ueber eine trotz reicher Detailforschung nur selten in zusammenfassender Form dargestellte Epoche der athenischen Geschichte zu danken." Tyche "Although Thrasybulus of Steiria was a major player in some of the most important events of Athenian history, he has been largely neglected by ancient commentators and modern scholars alike. By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411-389. [...] The reader will find a concise, clearly-written, and well-argued discussion of the events of the period." Bryn Mawr Classical Review Content: Sources and Scholarship � Thrasybulus: His Early Life and Career � Arginusae and the Thirty � The Overthrow of the Thirty and the Restoration of Democracy � The First Two Years of the Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and Conon � The Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and the New Athenian Empire � Thrasybulus and Athens � Chronology .

Special Panel on the Strategic Defense Initiative

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on the Strategic Defense Initiative
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Panel on the Strategic Defense Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on the Strategic Defense Initiative and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek Archives, Cults, and Topography

Author : W. Kendrick Pritchett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663665
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Greek Archives, Cults, and Topography written by W. Kendrick Pritchett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four original essays on Greek archives at the time of the Pentekontaetia, the cults at Hyampolis and the early Thessalo-Phokian war, Thucydides' campaign of Tanagra, and the Hypate-Kallion route through central Greece. The book includes indexes, also covering Prof. Pritchett's previously published books 'Essays in Greek History' and 'Thucydides' Pentekontaetia and Other Essays'.

The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric

Author : Vasiliki Zali
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283587
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric written by Vasiliki Zali and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric, Vasiliki Zali offers a fresh assessment of Herodotus’ rhetorical awareness. Redressing the usual view that considers Thucydides as a significant jump from earlier authors in the rhetorical tradition, Zali attempts to find a place for Herodotus. The volume explores the direct and indirect speeches in Herodotus’ fifth to ninth books, focusing in particular on the ways in which they highlight two major narrative themes: the fragility of Greek unity and the problematic Greco-Persian polarity. Through discussion of case studies and Herodotus’ literary background, Zali brings Herodotus’ sophisticated rhetorical system to life, examines the ways in which this system affects Herodotus’ authority, and demonstrates that Herodotus occupies a crucial place in the development of rhetoric.

Disruptive Strategies

Author : David L. Berkey
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817923861
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Strategies written by David L. Berkey and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, there have been military operations that attempted to produce tectonic shifts in the balance of power. In this volume, historians demonstrate how knowledge of past military operations can inform current policy discussions by analyzing conflicts between dominant states and the rising powers who seeks to contest their hegemony. What might a conflict between the United States and its main rival, China, look like in the years ahead? What factors are important for strategists to consider?Paul A. Rahe considers the rival ambitions between Sparta and Athens. Barry Strauss explores the Punic Wars fought by Carthage and Rome. Edward N. Luttwak examines a decisive military campaign between the Byzantine empire and its nemesis, the Sasanians. Peter R. Mansoor describes the emergence of Sweden as a military might under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus. Andrew Roberts studies the expansion of French power during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Michael R. Auslin formulates a hypothetical conflict between China and the United States in the year 2025. Each of these conflicts offers important lessons about the behaviors of ascendant powers and the responses they provoke.

Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317697685
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals) written by Barry Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that – at least in the case of Athens – has received far less attention. Along with the problems of reconstructing the economy and replenishing the population, the problem of renegotiating political consensus was equally acute. Athens after the Peloponnesian War, first published in 1986, undertakes a radically new investigation into the nature of Athenian political groups. The general model of ‘faction’ provided by political anthropology provides an indispensable paradigm for the Athenian case. More widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus. Athens after the Peloponnesian War offers a detailed demographic analysis, astute insight into political discourse, and is altogether one of the most thorough treatments of this important period in the Athenian democracy.