Grey Wars
Grey Wars

Author: N. W. Collins

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0300198418

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An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of America's twenty-first-century wars This original and accessible book is a comprehensive, authoritative analysis of U.S. Special Operations. U.S. Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the purposes of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Since 9/11, impelled by an attack on U.S. soil, these forces have been a central instrument of America's military campaign--operating in about one hundred countries on any given day. This fight--neither hot war nor cold peace--was launched and executed as a new type of global war in 2001 and has since splintered into a spectrum of regional conflicts. The result is our nation's grey wars: hazy and lethal. This contemporary history, incorporating extensive interviews and archival research by security studies expert N. W. Collins, delves deeply into the transformation of these forces since 9/11.

Grey Wars
Grey Wars

Author: N. W. Collins

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0300258348

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An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of America’s twenty-first-century wars This original and accessible book is a comprehensive, authoritative analysis of U.S. Special Operations. U.S. Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the purposes of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Since 9/11, impelled by an attack on U.S. soil, these forces have been a central instrument of America’s military campaign—operating in about one hundred countries on any given day. This fight—neither hot war nor cold peace—was launched and executed as a new type of global war in 2001 and has since splintered into a spectrum of regional conflicts. The result is our nation’s grey wars: hazy and lethal. This contemporary history, incorporating extensive interviews and archival research by security studies expert N. W. Collins, delves deeply into the transformation of these forces since 9/11.

Summary of N. W. Collins's Grey Wars
Summary of N. W. Collins's Grey Wars

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-06-15T22:59:00Z

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 MacDill Air Force Base is the center of America’s twenty-first-century wars. The forces are the central instrument of America’s military campaign, but they are often peripheral in national security decision-making. #2 We were at MacDill for a series of briefings on the 9/11 wars. We would visit the two combatant commands co-located there: U. S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, developed forces for global counterterrorism activities, unconventional operations, and crisis missions; and U. Central Command, or CENTCOM, organized geographically, directs forces deployed to the Middle East and Central Asia. #3 MacDill Air Force Base is the home of both SOCOM and CENTCOM, and is where they send their staff members to spend their two or three years assigned to them. It is not a place for training purposes. #4 The four-star foreign policy system in the United States is rooted in the Roman Empire’s pro-consuls, well-funded, semi-autonomous centers of American foreign policy.

The Grey Code
The Grey Code

Author: Megan W. Russ

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781539919100

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The Galactic Empire has fallen, In its wake two new governments have risen, The Republic Empire, rulers of the inner systems, And the Order of the Empire, that controls the outer rim. These two governments live in an uneasy alliance. The Jedi Order has been reestablished as peace keepers, between the two governing systems of the galaxy. Though the Jedi Order exist, the Jedi live in scattered groups, Each group establishing its own temple and their own laws. The Jedi only answer to their Grand Masters and the Governments they serve. Planetary systems live in chaos as the two governments fight for territory. While the Republic Empire prefers diplomacy, The Order of the Empire refers planetary occupation and Favoritism of influential citizens to control the planets in their territory. Civil war looms on the horizon, Can the scattered and disjointed Jedi Order restore peace, Before it is too late...

A Fortress of Grey Ice
A Fortress of Grey Ice

Author: J. V. Jones

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1429975989

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"Wonderful . . . J. V. Jones is a striking writer." So says Robert Jordan, the author of The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series. And Jones lives up to that praise in the highly charged epic adventure of Ash March and Raif Sevrance, two outcasts whose fate are entwined by ancient prophecies and need, in the cold, dark world that threatens to be torn asunder by a war to end all wars. Isolated by their birthrights, they are but two who fight the dreaded Endlords, and their strength and courage will be needed if the world is to be saved from darkness." Raif, wrongly accused and cut off from his clan by the treachery of their new headsman, has a talent for killing that is part of his curse and his burden. But he bears another burden of greater weight. Ash is a sacred warrior to the Sull, an ancient race whose numbers have declined. Raised as a foundling, never knowing her true history, she must learn to accept the terrible gifts of her heritage. But as Ash learns more of her greater fate, Raif's task looms dark and desperate, for he must journey through the nightmare realm of the Want, a place where even the Sull now fear to tread. For deep within the Want is the Fortress of Grey Ice, and there he must heal the breach in the Blindwall that already threatens the world. Should he fail, not even Ash's powers can save them. . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Spy Wars
Spy Wars

Author: Tennent H. Bagley

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0300134789

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King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. He changes from king to beggar, and finally, to man, in a pattern of loss and discovery which reflects the archetype of tragic wisdom.

Marcus Grey
Marcus Grey

Author: Don Six

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13:

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Magic is real and, after the discovery of the Nine Fonts, magic has been available for humanity to use without limitation. That is except for The Drain, a cosmic quid pro quo that saps energy from casters leaving them weakened and, in some cases, permanently disfigured or dead. Because of the side effects of magic abuse, magic has been cast aside by society, criminalized by the world governments, and considered a dangerous addiction by the majority of humanity. Join one recovering addict, Marcus Grey, as he finds himself cast into a war between the Gods of Good and Chaos for the very soul of humanity. Marcus has struggled his entire life with his addiction but has finally made it to three years clean. He has a steady girlfriend, an addiction nurse named Wallace, who he plans on proposing to. He has a steady job working in exotic car repair and restoration. He has a strong support group in Magic Anonymous. He finally has a life and a plan, but the cosmos have another thing coming. Join Marcus as he himself is cast into the binding spell of chaos that his life becomes as he fights, not only for his life, but the lives of those he loves.

The Green and the Gray
The Green and the Gray

Author: David T. Gleeson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-09-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1469607573

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Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the rise of Lost Cause ideology. Focusing on the experience of Irish southerners in the years leading up to and following the Civil War, as well as on the Irish in the Confederate army and on the southern home front, Gleeson argues that the conflict and its aftermath were crucial to the integration of Irish Americans into the South. Throughout the book, Gleeson draws comparisons to the Irish on the Union side and to southern natives, expanding his analysis to engage the growing literature on Irish and American identity in the nineteenth-century United States.

The Evolution Wars
The Evolution Wars

Author: Michael Ruse

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780813530369

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Draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. Focuses on the great debates, including the 19th century clash over the nature of classification and debates about the fossil record, genetics, and human nature.