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Author | : Lloyd C. Gardner |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595589430 |
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With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States' leadership role in the world. In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding power base of presidential power that reaches back across decades and through multiple administrations. The new president ended the “enhanced interrogation” policy of the Bush administration but did not abandon the concept of preemption. Obama withdrew from Iraq but has institutionalized drone warfare—including the White House's central role in selecting targets. What has come into view, Gardner argues, is the new face of American presidential power: high–tech, secretive, global, and lethal. Killing Machine skillfully narrates the drawdown in Iraq, the counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan, the rise of the use of drones, and targeted assassinations from al-Awlaki to Bin Laden—drawing from the words of key players in these actions as well as their major public critics. With unparalleled historical perspective, Gardner's book is the new touchstone for understanding not only the Obama administration but the American presidency itself.
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575109661 |
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Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language of the planet Thamber, does not refer to Hekkus's own predilection for homicide, but to his fondness for horrific and murderous devices, including the giant robotic executioner that first gained him his nickname. As a boy, Kirth Gersen survived a raid on his home planet masterminded by five interstellar crime lords known as the Demon Princes. This five-novel sequence recounts his carefully-planned and implacable revenge. In this, the second volume, his target is Kokor Hekkus, better known as the Killing Machine. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
Author | : Lloyd Gardner |
Publisher | : New Press, The |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 159558918X |
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With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States’ leadership role in the world. In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding power base of presidential power that reaches back across decades and through multiple administrations. The new president ended the “enhanced interrogation” policy of the Bush administration but did not abandon the concept of preemption. Obama withdrew from Iraq but has institutionalized drone warfare—including the White House’s central role in selecting targets. What has come into view, Gardner argues, is the new face of American presidential power: high–tech, secretive, global, and lethal. Killing Machine skillfully narrates the drawdown in Iraq, the counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan, the rise of the use of drones, and targeted assassinations from al-Awlaki to Bin Laden—drawing from the words of key players in these actions as well as their major public critics. With unparalleled historical perspective, Gardner’s book is the new touchstone for understanding not only the Obama administration but the American presidency itself.
Author | : Gene Mustain |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1993-07-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1101665882 |
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"The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."—Mike McAlary, columnist, New York Post They were the DeMeo gang—the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Author | : Shaun Tennant |
Publisher | : Shaun Tennant |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0991879937 |
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Theo Daniels has spent his life learning the art of death. Military. CIA. Black Ops. For the last five years, he used his skills to help people, to do good in the world. Then his world was shattered. Now Daniels travels the world seeking revenge. He has become the Killing Machine. This is a collection of five short stories following Daniels' entire quest for revenge. Keywords: Spies, espionage, CIA, assassin, ninja, sword fight, swordfight, chase scene, spy thriller, action adventure, suspense, gun fight, escape, action scenes.
Author | : Jack Vance |
Publisher | : Spatterlight Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Assassins |
ISBN | : 1619470403 |
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Kirth Gersen is hunting down the five Demon Princes who had led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, destroying Gersen's parents and his entire world.
Author | : Fung Zhuowen |
Publisher | : Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9814580910 |
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Max has been treated unfairly and vows to get his revenge on the adults. But a god has gotten wind of his plans and wants to stop him. Will they be able to stop him and his assistants before he destroys the world?
Author | : Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 111804021X |
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The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses–an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping book, second in the author’s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier’s-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.
Author | : Adam Lankford |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739134175 |
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They usually start out as ordinary people, doing their best to deal with mixed messages in a complex world. What they donOt realize is that they may be the target of a violent system that is building an obedient workforce. One day theyOre enjoying a few laughs with buddies, and seemingly the next day, they wake up as human killing machines. And they allowed it to happen. Addressing one of the most serious threats to the world today, Human Killing Machines applies the model of systematic indoctrination to case studies of brutality in Iran, Nazi Germany, Al Qaeda, and Abu Ghraib. The book reveals how these transformations take place_how systems redefine morality to turn ordinary people into torturers, terrorists, and genocidal killers. Analyzing the key differences between these cases also helps to identify the safeguards which limit violence. Lankford demonstrates the weaknesses of indoctrination, the ways heroic individuals have resisted its influence, and the potential for countermeasures. Based on these examples, he offers recommendations for how we can begin to reform the U.S. military and increase its accountability, reduce Al Qaeda terroristsO commitment to their missions, and spark an awakening in Iran so that the oppressive regime goes out with a whimper_not with a bang.
Author | : Janet Cardiff |
Publisher | : Hatje Cantz Pub |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9783775720021 |
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A concise retrospective, this publication contains previously unpublished written and visual material, as well as pertinent literature on the oeuvre of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. SPECIALIST