An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment: homeland, security, privacy, torture, and drone. Alex Lubin synthesizes nearly two decades of United States war-making against terrorism by asking how the War on Terror has changed American politics and society, and how the War on Terror draws on historical myths about American national and imperial identity. From the PATRIOT Act to the hit show Homeland, from Edward Snowden to Guantanamo Bay, and from 9/11 memorials to Trumpism, this succinct book connects America's political economy and international relations to our contemporary culture at every turn.
Endless War features controversial strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular, raising perceptive, often shocking questions others fear to ask. In a sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim military triumphs a thousand years ago through the turning of the tide between East and West to the brutal unconventional struggles of today and tomorrow, former Military Intelligence officer Peters extends his successful series of books on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness. Endless War engages the toughest security issues of our time, including: Does our Afghan war make sense? Can we win? Do we even have a strategy? ; Has flawed military planning left our troops as virtual hostages in combat zones? ; Can Israel survive? What would an Iranian nuclear arsenal mean for the world? ; Is Islam a "religion of peace," or has the war between Islam and Western civilization continued virtually without interruption for almost fourteen centuries? ; Why doesn't the greatest superpower in history win more often? Are we our own worst enemies? ; Have we lost our sense of warfare's reality? Why don't we fight to win? ; Do terrorist prisoners really deserve better treatment than American citizens? ; What's the true price of striking serious history courses from our schools? ; Who does deeper damage to the United States, our violent enemies or arrogant ruling elite? In powerful prose combining clarity with passion, Ralph Peters continues to shape our country's military and strategic thought, while standing up for our troops and American values. No book on strategy or foreign affairs this year will be fiercer or more brutally honest. As ever more dark clouds gather over the world, this is a voice we need!--Publisher description.
Fourteen of history’s longest-running military conflicts, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the Sudanese Civil War. Sometimes the causes of war are so intractable, the opponents so unyielding, and the rivalries so deep-rooted that the combat continues for years, decades, even centuries. And often when it does abate, the resentments still smolder, so that the slightest spark might reignite the conflagration. An at once captivating and unsettling volume, Why Some Wars Never End shines a spotlight on fourteen of history’s longest-running conflicts. They range from the almost century-long Punic Wars, which saw ancient Rome achieve dominance over the Mediterranean and lay the foundations of its world-changing empire, to the seventy years of uprisings and bloody encounters that triggered the Jewish Diaspora in the second century CE, to the nineteenth-century Seminole Wars, which virtually wiped out the Seminole Indians, to the violent British suppression of Afghan self-rule that set the stage for that nation’s distressing contemporary plight. Each of these wars had consequences and influences far beyond its source and the reach of its battles, not only redrawing political boundaries, but also coloring the worldview of generations of participants and bystanders, and thereby refashioning entire cultures. And all demonstrate, in harrowing fashion, why violence still stains our modern world, and why warfare shows no sign of ending any time soon. Praise for Joseph Cummins “This book is worthy of a place in the libraries of historians and politicians alike. Its stories of the past warn us about the future. Recommended.” —Armchair General on The World’s Bloodiest History “Gripping stories and lively writing.” —Library Journal on History’s Greatest Untold Stories
AN INTOLERANCE FOR TEMPERANCE Despite Iowa's statewide prohibition against liquor, Sioux City refuses to stay on the wagon. The saloon owners give a share of their profits to the city treasury to stay in business—and keep the newly established police force off their backs. But no amount of money can sway the Reverend George Channing Haddock from his fire-and-brimstone sermons against the evils of alcohol. The city's police commissioner has asked Clint Adams to protect the preacher from those seeking a different kind of retribution. Although not a teetotaler, Clint cannot stand by and allow the holy man to get riddled with holes. And when the good reverend survives some attempts made on his life, he's grateful to have the Gunsmith as his own angel of vengeance...
Welcome to the Little Scroll promised in the Bible. Promised to prevent a nuclear war and more crazy shootings. So pay attention. Before I describe the book, read a little from it. Does it or does it not describe the recent shootings in France? Or the problems with ISIS? If you think it does, then read this book. You got a lot to learn about the real God and Satan. God vs. Satan is a secret war between which populations use their left or right brains the most. Right hand - good hand, because God favors left brain thinking, verbal-Jews, before the right brain thinking of artistic people. This is why they fight. The Holy Ghost won't allow God to rule mankind if he rules as an unfair tyrant. If he smothers the creative abilities of the right brain. Being a tyrant contradicts the purpose of his existence. It also sterilizes the progress of a society. If that occurs the Life Force will eventually betray that society. Dooming it to failure. I'll explain the Life Force later. Then why is God trying to push total left brain control in Europe by using Muslims to push Islamic laws in Europe? He isn't pushing it. Satan is. But why would he do it? Isn't it contrary for his plans for Europe? Yes, in the long run it is, but not in the short run. Plans spanning human lifetimes. Considering what you know about them now, what do you think is the biggest danger as far as Satan is concerned? Isn't a big part of their war biological? Isn't a lot of their war about which populations use their left brains or right brains more? For many people upbringing greatly influences brain usage, but not in Semitic populations with their natural genetic predisposition towards using their left brains. It's more nature over nurture for how their minds work. The genetic trait for left brain dominance is dangerous for Satan if it spreads too much in Europe. So how does he deal with this problem? This is the tricky part. God knows he can't abuse his power by becoming too strict in populations created to be more balanced. It would hinder progress by choking creativity which would turn the Life Force against him. So he doesn't push too much. He knows he has to temper his ways with different populations. So what does Satan do? He influences radical religious minds to become unreasonable, to become inflexible, ungrateful, and unable to assimilate into European cultures. Satan makes them overstep their boundaries in Europe. But to what purpose? How does this help him? Satan knows the right brains in white Europeans will grow resentful and find Islamic laws repugnant in their own nations in the long run. This in turn will trigger a group genetic response in whites to become racist for real. When social approval for the attitude becomes condoned. Every biological group, like a body, has a safety mechanism built into it, to protect the body from foreign invaders. When our bodies realize they have been invaded by germs an alarm is triggered. A biological alarm which triggers the production of white cells in them. There is a similar group mechanism which protects racial gene pools. Satan is trying to trigger it in Europe. But he can't do it unless Muslims don't assimilate into Europe without trying to subvert it. So what does he have to do to pull this trigger? He has to inject hatred of Western life styles into the minds of radical Muslims. Making them hate the Western nations they live in. Making them headstrong and intolerant. Making it impossible for them to assimilate into European culture. Even making them insist on living under Islamic law in populations which couldn't tolerate it. The English, the Italians, the French, the Spanish, the Germans, the Russians, and more populations could never live under Islamic law. Not unless they were conquered. Which is why some Muslims believe they have to conquer Europe, not with guns, but by producing more babies. When they do that, they have declared war on Europeans. Now back to psychic networks.
The History Society Journal publishes original, mind-provoking and scholarly research undertaken by students from HKU. HSJ aims to promote history among students through in-depth studies of historical topic and provide an academic platform for our students to publish and express their opinions on topic of the year and other historical topics. This year’s topic of the year of the HSJ is Struggle between the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie: Did Cold War really end in 1991? We have always heard the words such as Proletariat and Bourgeoisie when we are reading the history of Russia, more specifically, the Soviet Union, however, what exactly do they mean? Not many people know the meaning of such words that has strong communistic origins. In fact, Proletariat and Bourgeoisie mean People with no assets and People with assets respectively. The struggle between them was often regarded as events that happened in the past, especially during the period between 1945 and 1991, after the collapse of the Japanese Empire and before the demise of the Soviet Union, but is that really true? The collapse of the Soviet Union is widely viewed as the end of the Cold War. Frankly speaking though, the argument that Cold War is a continuous event even till this day is not something made up by some random nobodies in the basement of their parent’s house, but something that is being brought up from time to time by different critics across the world. It is often referred to as The Second Cold War, or the New/Neo Cold War, often involving in the United States, China and Russia, the primary successor state of the former Soviet Union. As a resident of Hong Kong, a city which is very close with the states mentioned above, be it economical or geographical, it would be necessary for us to acknowledge the influence and consequences of the actions in this new “Silent” War, in order for us to cope with the events and develop alternative ways to survive in this dangerous and hazardous world. Submission of original, scholarly research articles is open to undergraduates from students at HKU. For further information, feel free to communicate with the History Society at [email protected].
All Actions have consequences All debts must be repaid All mistakes will be accounted for All things broken must be remade This is the story of three children, Eko, Kat, and Clayton, as they travel the mystical land of Andrabax, each running from a past they'd rather soon forget. This is the story of how the best of intentions may lead to the most disatserous outcomes, and how solutions are never as black and white as they first appear. This is the story of the rise of the Hero Thief, the Would-Be Queen, and the Warrior Monk. This is the start of a new legend. And this, is how Legends End.
In the field of social policy, some topics are so complicated that they will always be subject to debate. Since no clear right or wrong exists, they are consigned to the gray areas of ongoing dispute. Among such issues open for debate both across America and in this eye-opening series are capital punishment, genetic engineering, gun control, and global warming. Others involve terrorism and chemical and biological warfare, two outright evils, though with highly disputable solutions. Open for Debate explores the past, present, and future to shed light on complex, high-priority public policy. A lucid, readily accessible format offers the pros and cons of each issue with opinions from social policy experts. It features sidebars of fascinating facts and easy-to-understand diagrams of key statistics. Open for Debate introduces future public policy thinkers to both sides of twenty-first-century, life-and-death concerns.
Highby expertly cuts apart the 5000-year history of the war on women so that she can decode and explain the ancient - deliberately difficult and elitist historical jargon for the sake of the intelligent general reader. Highby surprises us by showing how the war on women always played out as parallel to a war against Nature, as well as a class war. Therefore, the war devalues Nature, slaves, and lower-class men as well as women. This war influenced the Renaissance Spirit/Matter split with its witch burnings. It applies to current Darwinian versus Creationism arguments, too.
