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Unconventional Warrior

Author : Walter Morris Herd
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601526
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Unconventional Warrior written by Walter Morris Herd and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror. Herd argues that conflicting political objectives have muddied the way forward for the on-the-ground commanders and thus threaten the prospect of any real victory in Afghanistan. He uses everyday stories to make his points: "One of the local leaders pointed to his wrist and said to my interpreter, 'the Americans have all the watches but we have all the time.' That made a lasting impression on me." Colonel Herd was one of the highest ranking officers on the ground with a command of some 4,000 elite soldiers from all branches of the U.S. military and five other coalition nations. It was a mission he had trained for all of his life. A sixth-generation soldier, Herd became a master parachutist, a combat scuba diver, a Green Beret and an Army Ranger. He conducted combat missions against the Taliban by using the Special Forces mandate to work by, with and through the local population.

Unconventional Warriors

Author : Diego Solis
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Unconventional Warriors written by Diego Solis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about war, nor is it a book about politics. It's about a profound spiritual journey that took Diego Solis to some of the most dangerous places on earth, inspired to answer one question: What is a warrior? From Afghanistan's snowcapped mountains to New Guinea's jungles, Unconventional Warriors will help the reader find a sense of empowerment and awaken their inner warrior. It's about finding a cause that leads to a greater sense of purpose. About choosing our battles wisely and empathizing even with those we viscerally disagree with. It's about better knowing ourselves by leaving our comfort zone and resiliently adapting to harsh, uncertain, and complex environments. About accepting our darkest fears and using them strategically to create self-trust. And it's about knowing what type of inner warrior do we want to empower in the toughest wars of all-the war against ourselves.

Unconventional Warriors

Author : Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Unconventional Warriors written by Matthew B. Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the "American Guerrilla" narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history. American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a mythic narrative in which Americans, despite having the most powerful military in history, are presented as underdog resistance fighters against an overwhelming and superior occupying evil. Unconventional Warriors: The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film explains that this fantasy has occupied the center of numerous war films and in turn shaped the way in which Americans see those wars and themselves. Informed by the author's expertise on war in contemporary literature and popular culture, this book begins with an introduction that outlines the basics of the "American Guerrilla" narrative and identifies it as a recurring theme in American war films. Subsequent chapters cover one hundred years of American "guerrillas" in film and television. The book concludes with a chapter on science fiction narratives, illustrating how the conventions and politics of these stories shape even the representation of wholly fictional, imagined wars on screen.

Unorthodox Strategies For The Everyday Warrior

Author : Ralph D. Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000009750
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unorthodox Strategies For The Everyday Warrior written by Ralph D. Sawyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a handbook of tactics based on the ancient Chinese military classics. This unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience of warfare to present a distillation of a hundred key strategic principles applicable to modern life, including business and human relations.

Special Warfare

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Special Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Moral Witness

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173508X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Witness written by Carolyn J. Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.

Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South

Author : Okocha, Desmond Onyemechi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668480956
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South written by Okocha, Desmond Onyemechi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are inequalities in global knowledge production in communication outlets, cultural practices, and governance problems. Under this symbiotic relationship, they reinforce the cultural ideas, values, and governance systems operating in the Western countries as an ideal and role model for the Global South countries. Media is regarded as the agent of change for communication and cultural values. Indigenous knowledge production and dissemination is an essential feature to get a better insight into Global South countries. Likewise, dewesternizing and demystifying societal culture and governance issues are pertinent in this age of information. The Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South focuses on local production practices keeping in view the local needs of communication outlets and societal and cultural sensitivities. This Indigenous knowledge would provide deeper and richer insights into the problems and sensitivities of Global South countries. To achieve this end, this book adopts a broader approach encompassing development issues, democratic values, digitalization practices, gender equality issues, and more. Covering topics such as biocultural activism, language ideology, and religiocentrism, this major reference work is a valuable resource for graduate students, sociologists, government officials, students and educators of higher education, librarians, development organization leaders, religious scholars, policymakers, researchers, and academicians.

Chosen Soldier

Author : Dick Couch
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307339394
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Chosen Soldier written by Dick Couch and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers. In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces–the legendary Green Berets. Following the experiences of one class of soldiers as they endure this physically and mentally exhausting ordeal, Couch spells out in fascinating detail the demanding selection process and grueling field exercises, the high-level technical training and intensive language courses, and the simulated battle problems that test everything from how well SF candidates gather operational intelligence to their skills at negotiating with volatile, often hostile, local leaders. Chosen Soldier paints a vivid portrait of an elite group, and a process that forges America’s smartest, most versatile, and most valuable fighting force.

U. S. Army Special Forces

Author : Fred J. Pushies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610607629
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book U. S. Army Special Forces written by Fred J. Pushies and published by . This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2002, the U.S. Army Special Forces will celebrate a half-century of exemplary service. This illustrated look at the training and work of the U.S. Army Special Forces as it is today includes a brief history of these fighting elite followed by an up-close look at the advanced weaponry, high-tech gadgetry and fear-inspiring vehicles and aircraft at their disposal. Also discussed are special functions and duties like sniping, military free-fall, SCUBA and linguistic and cultural training. Color photographs of U.S. Army Special forces in training and in the field, are accompanied by appendices detailing their service history and the specifications of their specialized weaponry and equipment.

Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care

Author : Nancy J. Ramsay
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827223803
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care written by Nancy J. Ramsay and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care offers resources to inform and support practices of spiritual care for veterans and others affected by moral injury incurred in the context of military service. A dozen contributors, all experienced in the field, contributed to this work first published in Pastoral Psychology and now widely available. This book is published with the support of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School. Interreligious in its focus, the Center sponsors research and creates resources to inform and support religious leaders and communities of faith as they respond to veterans and their families and others affected by military moral injury. Proceeds from the book support the Center's work.

Strategic Assessment ...

Author : National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Assessment ... written by National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture

Author : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634963
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture written by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.

Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior

Author : Simon Anglim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783462186
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Orde Wingate: Unconventional Warrior written by Simon Anglim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Major General Orde Wingate (1903-1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. He splits opinion among soldiers, academics and writers seven decades after his death. His exploits in Ethiopia and Burma, in particular his creation of the Chindits, special forces who were trained to use guerrilla tactics behind the Japanese lines, have made him into a key figure in the history of irregular warfare. But, as Simon Anglim reveals in this thought-provoking and insightful study, myths and misunderstandings tend to cloud understanding of Wingates career, and he seeks to put the record straight. He bases his work on a major study of Wingates official and private papers, and those of his contemporaries, and he aims to provide the definitive guide to Wingate as a military commander."--Publisher's information.

Green Berets in the Vanguard

Author : Chalmers Archer Jr.
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682473511
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Green Berets in the Vanguard written by Chalmers Archer Jr. and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of an award-winning memoir about growing up black in Mississippi, Chalmers Archer turns his attention in this book to his experiences as one of the first members of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. His perspective is unique, not only as one of the first to wear the Green Beret but as a black man in the early days of armed forces integration. Archer participated in some of the earliest forays into Laos, long before Southeast Asia was in American headlines, and he was a member of the first U.S. unit to go into Vietnam. He trained the first Special Forces teams of the South Vietnamese army and participated in some of their earliest operations, many of them unknown until now because of their highly classified nature. He saved the lives of the first American and Vietnamese soldiers injured in war and also witnessed the first American combat death in Vietnam, holding the man in his arms as he died. His unit operated alongside the Central Intelligence Agency and helped influence American foreign policy. A self-described soldier-teacher, he developed and spread the early gospel of special warfare while serving in the Philippines, Hawaii, Korea, Taiwan, and Panama, as well as in Southeast Asia. All of these activities are fully chronicled in this book, but Archer's perspective as an African American in an elite unit of the U.S. armed forces in the 1950s gives his memoir additional depth and insight. It is an uplifting--though sometimes harrowing--story of struggle in unfamiliar environments and an eye-opening account of events little known today.

The Warrior and the Wolf

Author : Rich Hungerford
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982290560
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Warrior and the Wolf written by Rich Hungerford and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an arduous path that warriors walk, no matter where they live in the world. True warriors seek to learn what serves them and what does not, what is selfish and what is selfless, and how to decide in favor of light over dark. Like everyone else, the warrior owns the consequences, good or bad. In a how-to manual, modern-day warrior Rich Hungerford offers guidance and support to a new era of warriors desiring to positively impact the world while navigating the challenges of life. Intertwined with his often deeply-personal insights gathered from his own life journey is philosophical guidance on how to successfully walk the warriors’ path. Within the three stages of the journey, Hungerford candidly describes both the difficulties and rewards that accompany a warrior’s commitment to personal growth, provides an awareness of the importance of developing the mind, body, and spirit along the way, and encourages the acceptance of and surrender to a personal destiny with grace. The Warrior and the Wolf shares wisdom, insights, and advice for warriors seeking guidance on how to walk a spiritual path to develop the higher self, live true, and truly live.

The Sheriff

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183936
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Sheriff written by Colin S. Gray and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States' role in the world. In this hard-nosed but sophisticated examination, Colin S. Gray argues that America is the indispensable guardian of world order. Gray's constructive critique of recent trends in national security is holistic, rooting defense issues and prospective answers both in U.S. national security policy, broadly defined, and in the emerging international security environment. Colin S. Gray is professor of international politics and strategic studies at the University of Reading, England, and senior fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the author of seventeen books, including Modern Strategy and Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History.

Covert Warriors

Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101552220
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Covert Warriors written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charley Castillo and the former members of Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis are officially “retired.” But that doesn’t mean they’re out of action… At a Mexican roadblock, a US Embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers murdered, and a fourth kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from US federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts. They believe that it's a diversion—that the murders and kidnapping were ordered by someone to lure Castillo & Company to their deaths. But even knowing that may not save them. Powerful forces in the US government are arrayed against them as well, and if one side doesn't get them...the other side will.