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According to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents, over 4000 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were found, secured, and destroyed in Iraq from 2003 to 2009. This information was originally classified to protect US and allied forces, as well as the Iraqi people. FOIA documentation provided in the appendices of this work confirms that "yellow cake" was also discovered and secured in Iraq during that same period of time. There was significant...
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During the course of the SARS-nCoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, described in this book as "the event," many questions have been asked. Who is responsible for this event? Where did this virus come from? What happened in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? Why did this happen? And many others.
In this book, many of these questions are answered, the dots are connected, and the navigation buoys anchored to steer by in this most terrible fact-filled account...
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Back from 44 - The Sacrifice and Courage of a Few. Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point. From enlistment to basic training to saying goodbye to his new wife, he remembers his deadly missions around France Germany and the wider Mediterranean. Experience how it was first hand to encounter enemy flak and fighter attacks, while...
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The great War on Terror was not intentionally begun by the United States or its NATO allies. It came looking for us. America is a country that is an open society, where men like the 9/11 perpetrators could visit on a student visa and conduct the diabolical, fevered schemes of Osama bin Laden and other monsters from hell. Islamic extremists were angry that Western women are treated equally to men, can drive cars, and even show their faces in public....
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Poison gas was one of the most feared weapons of its day and added a terrifying new dimension to modern warfare. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas was a shell dressing, soaked in his own urine and then tied around his face. By 1918, the British Army had developed a range of innovative protection methods that heralded the birth of the modern day military respirator. Throughout both World Wars, Great...
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Sumérgete en el corazón de uno de los conflictos más impactantes y complejos de nuestro tiempo con "Sombras de Guerra: Ucrania y Rusia en el Conflicto Moderno". Este libro te llevará a un viaje fascinante a través de los entresijos políticos, culturales y militares que han definido la relación entre Ucrania y Rusia en el siglo XXI.A través de una narrativa meticulosamente investigada y envolvente, el autor desentraña los eventos que han dado...
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A Boydian Approach to Mastering Unconventional Warfare" is a seminal work that delves deeply into the strategic principles of John Boyd, a legendary military strategist, and applies them to the complex realm of unconventional warfare. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Boyd's key concepts, most notably the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), and explores their application in the context of irregular and asymmetric conflicts that...
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In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. Cries of barbarianism rang throughout Europe, yet Allied nations immediately jumped into the fray, kickstarting an arms race that would redefine a war already steeped in unimaginable horror.
Largely forgotten in the confines of history, the development of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service...
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"'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover...
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As Julie Willis transitioned from being a government contractor inside Army Futures Command, to being an entrepreneur in defense innovation, she was, thrown into the forefront of disruptive technologies and potential espionage, during the beginning of the Covid lockdown.
Conceal Reveal is about the gritty reality of the dysfunction of military modernization and the ecosystem that has been allowed to grow around it. It reveals the innovative, exciting...
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In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trial and its counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo trial failed to prosecute Imperial Japanese leaders for the very worst of war crimes: inhumane medical experimentation, including vivisection and open-air pathogen and chemical tests, which rivaled Nazi atrocities, as well as mass attacks using...
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Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending billions of dollars per year on medical countermeasures and biological detection systems. But most of this funding now comes from the Department of Health...
13) American Anthrax
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From Jeanne Guillemin, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax and bioterrorism, the definitive account of the anthrax investigation
It was the most complex case in FBI history. In what became a seven-year investigation that began shortly after 9/11-with America reeling from the terror attacks of al Qaeda-virulent anthrax spores sent through the mail killed Bob Stevens, a Florida tabloid photo editor. His death and, days later, the discovery...
14) Vietnam War Women Veterans Signs and Symptoms of Long-Lasting Physical and Psychological Injuries in
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It is well-known that war veterans experience long-lasting physical and psychological injuries following their deployment, and recent studies have proposed the construct of moral damage to explain the moral and spiritual effects of war on individuals.
Current research on moral injury has focused solely on male veterans. However, women have served in the military since colonial times, most often as nurses.
This book identified signs and symptoms...
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In 1943, a top-secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But, there was a problem, it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realized this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf laborers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation of gassed...
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A comprehensive survey of organic compounds used as poisons-on arrows and spears, in food, and even as insecticides-by numerous Native American tribes.
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
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Biological weapons are the least well understood of the so-called weapons of mass destruction. Unlike nuclear and chemical weapons, biological weapons are composed of, or derived from, living organisms. In Living Weapons, Gregory D. Koblentz provides a comprehensive analysis of the unique challenges that biological weapons pose for international security. At a time when the United States enjoys overwhelming conventional military superiority, biological...
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A wife tells of her husband's combat missions-and the Agent Orange exposure that changed both their lives.
Through her husband's letters from Southeast Asia about his combat missions in Vietnam and over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos in 1971 and 1972, Marge Hansen shares a gripping journey into one of the most divisive and turbulent periods in the nation's history. Brave Warriors, Humble Heroes: A Vietnam War Story captures in a flier's words the conflict,...
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As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "ecocide."
David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with Operation Ranch...
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“Holding Their Breath” uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their...
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