Bacevich, Andrew J

Summary: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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Brooks, Rosa

Summary: A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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Manchester, William

Summary: Biography of one of the most controversial American generals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS MAN

Bunting, Josiah

Summary: "A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Ambinder, Marc

Summary: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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Summary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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Wagner, Kim A.

Summary: "In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2024

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Cassidy, David C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 CAS

Groom, Winston

Summary: Groom has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Bakken, Tim

Summary: Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty yers at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020

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Ricks, Thomas E.

Summary: Describes the values, strategic thinking, and leadership qualities of military leaders from World War II to the present day and how the widening separation between performance and accountability has not resulted in any recent Marshalls, Eisenhowers, or Pattons.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012

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Groom, Winston

Summary: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle were heroes of the aviation age. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond. Doolittle, a brilliant aviation innovator, led the Tokyo Raid to retaliate for Pearl Harbor; Lindbergh, hero of the first solo flight across the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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O'Connell, Robert L.

Summary: An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Clancy, Tom

Summary: In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. Battle Ready is all of that--and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZINNI, ANTHONY CLA

Boykin, Jerry.

Summary: Boykin reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-- and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2008

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Wukovits, John F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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Griffin, W. E. B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2002

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Hirshson, Stanley P.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEORGE, PATTON HIR

Perry, Mark

Summary: Examines how Douglas MacArthur overcame personal and professional challenges to lead his countrymen in the Pacific Theater.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS PER

Ellsberg, Daniel

Summary: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness expos©♭ of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 ELL

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Jacobsen, Annie.

Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 JAC

Burleigh, Michael

Summary: Describes how the collapse of power in the Philippines, the Congo, and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 BUR

Ulander, Perry A.

Summary: "This intimate memoir by an American GI who served in Vietnam offers a powerful narrative for readers with an interest in the effects of war and violence, American involvement in Vietnam and how trauma can be a catalyst for transformation"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2016

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