Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon
New York: Warner Books, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 464, illus., appendix, index, ink name inside front flyleaf, DJ slightly soiled, some foxing to fore-edge. More
New York: Warner Books, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 464, illus., appendix, index, ink name inside front flyleaf, DJ slightly soiled, some foxing to fore-edge. More
New York: Warner Books, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xiv, [2], 464 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ is price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman. He served in a variety of state and federal positions, including Chairman of the California Republican Party. He was Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan. Weinberger served in the 41st Infantry Division in World War II. His entry into politics was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959, and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He later became vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and still later Chairman of Forbes magazine. His tenure as Secretary of Defense is the third longest in U.S. history, and spanned the final years of the Cold War. He is also known for his key role in the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. He was awarded both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and an honorary British knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996. Book Club Edition. 470, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some wrinkling & damp stains to text (no pgs stuck), DJ edges worn and sm tears Hypothetical war scenarios of the major wars most likely to occur in the next dozen years, including a simultaneous invasion of South Korea by North Korea and of Taiwan by the People's Republic of China, U.S. military retaliation for nuclear terrorism by Iran, and violent unrest in Mexico spilling over the U.S. border. More
New York: Warner Books, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 273, notes, bibliography, index, date stamped on top edge. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Warner Books, c1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 273 pages. Notes, bibliography, index, slight soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: Warner Books, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. ix, [3], 273, [3] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of four books and co-author of a fifth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His newest book is One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. He is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Weiner worked for the Times from 1993 to 2009 as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC. Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. His book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget is based on that newspaper series. He won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his 2007 book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. His Enemies: A History of the FBI traces the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations—from the bureau's creation in the early 20th century through its ongoing role in the war on terrorism. An investigative and in-depth report on the U.S. military's "black budget" or "cache" of funds used to finance a variety of secretive military projects and research, with much information on how the military brass interacts with the U.S. government and Congress. More
Seattle, WA: Discovery Institute Press, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 266, [4] pages. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Occasional footnotes. Appendices. Bibliography. Foreword by Richard Perle. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Sleepwalking with the Bomb shows how we can forestall nuclear catastrophe. It offers familiar faces, cases and places to illustrate how the civilized world can face the most pressing nuclear dangers. Drawing from both history and current events, John Wohlstetter assembles in one place an integrated, coherent and concise picture that explains how best to avoid the "apocalyptic trinity"--suicide, genocide and surrender--in confronting emerging nuclear threats. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Book Club Edition. 543, illus., index, small tear in front DJ. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 543, illus., index, some wear to top and bottom DJ edges. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Second Printing. 543, illus., index, small tears to DJ edges, front DJ flap creased, ink name inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Linden Press, 1985. First Printing. 25 cm, 315, illus., black mark on bottom edge. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. xv, [1], 84 pages. Wraps. Endnotes. Timeline. Appendices. Judith Yaphe is an adjunct professor in the Elliott School and Senior Research Fellow and Middle East Project Director in the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Before joining INSS in 1995, Dr. Yaphe served for 20 years as a senior analyst on Middle Eastern and Persian Gulf issues in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA. She specializes in Iraq, Iran, Arabian/Persian Gulf security issues, and Political Islam/Islamic extremism. Yaphe received the B.A. with Honors in History from Moravian College and the Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the University of Illinois. Selected publications include Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran with Dr. Kori Schake, The Middle East in 2015: The Impact of Regional Trends on U.S. Strategic Planning, The United States and the Persian Gulf, ed. by Richard D. Sokolsky. More
Washington DC: National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. xv, [1], 84, [4] pages. Box. Endnotes. Timeline of Iran's Path to Nuclear Weapons. Appendixes. Notes at Appendix C. Name blacked out on title page, with some staining on next page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Dr. Judith Yaphe and Colonel Charles Lutes reexamining Iran's movement toward becoming a nuclear-weapons state and the implications of that development for stability in the Middle East, global nonproliferation efforts, and U.S. security and defense policy. The terrorist attacks of September 11, U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iran, and new evidence of Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons-related technologies all necessitate a reexamination of a nuclear-armed Iran. More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. vi, 250 pages. Table. Figure. Notes. Contributors. Index. Some ink marks noted. Toshi Yoshihara is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He was previously the inaugural John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. Dr. Yoshihara has also served as a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego; and the Strategy Department of the U.S. Air War College. He currently teaches a graduate course on seapower in the Indo-Pacific at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. In 2016 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in recognition of his scholarship on maritime and strategic affairs at the Naval War College. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. James Holmes holds the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. A former U.S. Navy surface-warfare officer, he was the last gunnery officer in history to fire a battleship’s big guns in anger, during the first Gulf War in 1991. He earned the Naval War College Foundation Award in 1994, signifying the top graduate in his class. His books include Red Star over the Pacific, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of 2010 and a fixture on the Navy Professional Reading List. More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. vi, 250 pages. Table. Figure. Notes. Contributors. Index. Toshi Yoshihara is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He was previously the inaugural John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies and a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. Dr. Yoshihara has also served as a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego; and the Strategy Department of the U.S. Air War College. He currently teaches a graduate course on seapower in the Indo-Pacific at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. In 2016 he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in recognition of his scholarship on maritime and strategic affairs at the Naval War College. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. James Holmes holds the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. A former U.S. Navy surface-warfare officer, he was the last gunnery officer in history to fire a battleship?s big guns in anger, during the first Gulf War in 1991. He earned the Naval War College Foundation Award in 1994, signifying the top graduate in his class. His books include Red Star over the Pacific, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of 2010 and a fixture on the Navy Professional Reading List. More
Washington, DC: Wash Inst/Near East Policy, 2002. 94, wraps, map, acronyms, chapter notes, appendices, publisher's press release laid in. More