The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad
Place_Pub: New York: Viking, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. 300, illus., maps, index. More
Place_Pub: New York: Viking, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. 300, illus., maps, index. More
New York, NY: Atria Books, 2005. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 465 p. More
New York: Atria Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To: Judy, I hope you enjoy. David is the best. Vince Flynn. Vincent Joseph Flynn (April 6, 1966 – June 19, 2013) was an American author of political thriller novels surrounding the story of the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series 24. He died on June 19, 2013, after three years with prostate cancer. With the exception of his first novel Term Limits, his works centered around counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp. His 2008 release, Extreme Measures, became the ninth novel in the series. Mitch Rapp is a fictional undercover CIA counter-terrorism agent. Rapp's primary focus is thwarting terrorist attacks on the United States, and he is presented as an aggressive operative willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable. His constant frustration with procedures and red tape is a major theme throughout the entire series. Starting in 2015 with The Survivor, the Mitch Rapp series has been continued by Kyle Mills. More
London: International Institute for Strategic Studies/Oxford University Press, 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. 94, [2] p. Notes. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2010. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. Quarto, 36 pages (including covers). Wraps. Color illustrations. Diagrams. Figures. Formulae. Table. Charts. References. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The Laboratory has a proud history and heritage of more than 70 years of science and innovation. The people at the Laboratory work on advanced technologies to provide the best scientific and engineering solutions to the nation's most crucial security challenges. The primary responsibility of the Laboratory is assuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Though the world is rapidly changing, this essential responsibility remains the core mission. The Laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. It took just 20 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo bombing range. Under the scientific leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the military direction of General Leslie R. Groves, scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. Hitler was defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued to wage an aggressive Pacific war. So President Harry S. Truman chose to employ atomic bombs in an effort to end WWII. Little Boy, a uranium gun-type weapon, was used against Hiroshima; Fat Man, an implosion plutonium bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki. An invasion of the Japanese home islands proved unnecessary, thus sparing thousands of American and Japanese lives. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 803, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on half-title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Bradley Graham has spent more than twenty-five years at The Washington Post in various reporting and editing assignments focused on military and foreign affairs. The author of Hit to Kill: The New Battle Over Shielding America From Missile Attack, he lives in Washington, D.C. More
Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, c1987. 24 cm, 320, illus., few of the usual library markings, DJ pasted to boards Analyses terrorism in America, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and Britain. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. 194. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2011. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 204 p. : Illustrations. Maps. Glossary and Abbreviations. Military Operations Cited in the Text. This is one of the Letort Papers. More
London: Inst for Study of Conflict, 1979. 22 cm, 465, maps, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Internat'l Security Council, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 114, wraps, illus. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, A Touchstone Book, 2006. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 307 p. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First Printing. 376, chronology, notes, bibliography, some foxing to fore-edge, bottom DJ edge worn and creased, small chips at DJ spine. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Paperbk Edition. Second Printing. 388, wraps, appendix, chronology, notes, bibliography, some wear to cover edges. More
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. vi, 398 p. Figure. Endnotes. More
New York: ReganBooks, c2001. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 361, illus. (some color). More
New York, NY: Crown Publishers), 2011. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. [8], 296 p. Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. More
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, c1979. First? Printing. 24 cm, 450, illus., rear board weak, DJ soiled with frays and tears, edges soiled, text clear and clean. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2009. Revision 1. Brochure. Format is approximately 17 inches by 11 inches, folded in half, resulting in four panels of 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Color illustrations. This is a description of the Global Security Directorate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium (element 116) named after it. LLNL was established in 1952 as the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, an offshoot of the existing UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos in New Mexico, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore facility. The new laboratory was sited at a former naval air station of World War II. It was already home to several UC Radiation Laboratory projects that were too large for its location in the Berkeley Hills above the UC campus, including one of the first experiments in the magnetic approach to confined thermonuclear reactions. Southeast of Berkeley, the Livermore site provided much greater security for classified projects. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab, 2002. 28 cm, 28, wraps, illus. (some color), mailing label residue and stamp on rear cover. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 186 pages. Bookplate signed by the author with a sentiment on fep. Notes in ink on rep. Some pencil marks to text noted. Preface, Notes, and Index. The chapters are: The Imperative of Triage; Perceptions of the Terrorist Threat; Measuring the Terrorist Threat: What is the Evidence?; The Cabal, The Invasion of Iraq, and the Origins of the War on Terror; The War on Terror Whirlwind; and Freeing America From the War on Terror. Ian Steven Lustick (born 1949) is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East. He held the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the department of Political Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a dissertation titled Arabs in the Jewish State, later adapted for a book of that title. He spent 1979-1980 as an analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State. He was subsequently a professor at Dartmouth College, where he taught for 15 years. Lustick became more broadly known with the publication of his book Trapped in the War on Terror in which he argues that the War on Terrorism is an irrational policy for fighting America's enemies. He argues that this policy was initially conceived of by a neo-conservative cabal at the Project for a New American Century who were determined to shift the direction of U.S. foreign policy towards unilateralism. Given a number of political features unique to the US system, Lustick concluded, the War on Terror has ultimately turned into something beyond anyone's control. More
Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. [6], 33, [1] pages. Map. Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Central Asia is the third largest point of origin for Salafi jihadist foreign fighters in the conflagration in Syria and Iraq, with more than 4,000 total fighters joining the conflict since 2012. As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant continues to lose territory under duress from U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition activities, some predict that many may return home bent on jihad and generating terror and instability across Central Asia. Yet several factors indicate that such an ominous foreign fighter return may not materialize. Among these factors are that a majority of Central Asians fighting for ISIL and the al-Nusra Front in Syria and Iraq are recruited while working abroad in Russia, often from low-wage jobs making the recruits ripe for radicalization. Most Central Asian states face their greatest risk of domestic instability and violent extremism as a reaction to political repression policies that counterproductively conflate political opposition and the open practice of Islam with a domestic jihadist threat. Greater U.S. CT assistance to address foreign fighter returns may strengthen illiberal regime short-term focus on political power consolidation, increase the risks of domestic unrest and instability. The United States has few means to pressure Central Asian regimes into policies that address domestic radicalization. U.S. security assistance—and the specific subset of CT assistance—is a significant lever. U.S. CT assistance for Central Asia should eschew additional general lethal assistance and instead scope security attention toward border security intelligence and physical capacity enhancements. More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. Listing of SAS Operations of World War II, Falklands Casualties, SAS Specializations, and Bibliography. Inscription to Gotabaya Rajapaksa is signed by Lionel Balasuriya, near an address label pasted on fep. From 22 March 1991 - 21 August 2007 Lionel Balasuriya worked as a Director in Kenworth Corporation (U.K.) Limited. Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP, psc, GR (born 20 June 1949) is a retired officer of the Sri Lanka Army, a former Secretary to Ministry of Defence and Urban Development of Sri Lanka. After serving through the early parts of the country's civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, he retired from the army in 1992 and emigrated to the US. With the election of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed Defence Secretary in November 2005. Rajapaksa played a key role towards the successes achieved by the Sri Lankan Military in defeating the Tamil Tigers and ending Sri Lanka's 26-year-long civil war. Investigations on assassinations, abductions and assaults on journalist revealed that Gotabhaya directed a death squad to attack journalists that was outside the Army command structure during this time 17 journalists and media workers were killed and others were either assaulted or abducted. DJ has some wear and edge tears. More
New York: Pocket Books, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 352, illus., index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author (Marcinko). More
New York: Pocket Books, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, glossary, black mark on bottom edge, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More