Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs And Operations In The 9/11 World

Arkin, William M.

ISBN 10: 1586420836 / ISBN 13: 9781586420833

Verlag: Steerforth Pr, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 2005

Beschreibung

608pp/end-paper maps. From "Able Ally" to "Zodiac Beauchamp," Code Names identifies more than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for which they stand. Among other things, this book will help readers gain a clearer picture of the political and diplomatic machinations that underpin the global counterinsurgency campaign that is the "war on terrorism" and help reveal to American citizens initiatives and strategies being implemented around the globe by their leaders in their name. Clean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007304

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans,...

Verlag: Steerforth Pr, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2005

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: First Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

Addressing the growing emphasis on secrecy in the post-9/11 world, a defense analyst identifies more than three thousand code names and explains the missions and plans for which they stand. 25,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

William M. Arkin is a NBC News military analyst, consultant, and author. He has been a columnist for The Los Angeles Times, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, U.S. Air Force, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Arkin s work as a military analyst for NBC News has spanned Desert Fox in Iraq in 1998, the 1999 Yugoslav war, the events of September 11, and current operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.