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In this anniversary edition of one of her most endearing books, Joan Walsh Anglund celebrates the wonders of childhood.
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Sweet illustrations.......2000-09-22
If you like Joan Walsh Anglund, you'll like this book. She has filled it with simple drawings of the most endearing children, who are busy doing activities that we all remember. There aren't a lot of words, but there are just enough to build on the feelings that go along with the pictures. Adults might like it even more than children will.
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Attorney Roger M. Groves has concluded an in-depth analysis of the short-comings of the hiring and support of African American coaches to the sport of Big Ten college football. He offers multiple recommendations to university decision makers on how to hire and not fire African American coaches.
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Great Read.......2006-06-08
I thought this book was very well written. It really captures the challenges that exists in the head coaching position's at Universities. For all that really did not know the truth about Bobby Willimas and his struggles at MSU will learn a great deal after reading this wonderful book. It is also a motivational book for students and athlethes....
A must read!!
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This volume traces the evolution of the American military, its institutions, strategic doctrines, and technology. The selections provide a social and institutional focus of the "new" military history, and follow the metamorphosis of the militia, the professionalization of the officers' corps, and the course of civilian control of the military.
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Good Collection of Essays.......2006-04-18
The collection of documents contained in the book provides a good look at major problems and issues spanning the entire three-hundred (say from the founding of Jamestown) or so years of American military history. Of particular interest to me was General Patton's commentary on the U.S. Army's position on tanks during the period between World War I and World War II.
There are also some articles on doctrine and on the establishment of a professional standing army. The documents do a good job of tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. In the end, the book provides a good collection of opinions on important subjects in the military's past and present.
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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history.
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War incorporates a spate of new research and a number of recently declassified documents concerning the Vietnam War. This new evidence and scholarship expands the volume's coverage of the experiences of average soldiers during the war.
- The reader gives close attention to the experiences of women and minorities in the war.
- The text includes new chapters on the experience of the average soldier and on the legacy and memory of the Vietnam War.
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vietnam.......2007-06-12
this book is such a waste of time, it tells you only the point of view of one's man ego and his denial of america's defeat by the north vietnamese. throughout the whole war,the u.s miltary only rely on body counts for there victory ,hoping the north vietnamese would fear the u.s army and surrender ,but in the end ,they were wrong ,the nva and viet cong were determine to fight to the death.
face it,even though the u.s military won many battles,the united states lost the war and retreated . the whole world is aware of this defeat but only some american citizen like this author denies this.
many of the vc casualty are infact innocent civilians ,that the u.s military has covered up by placing nva /vc uniforms and weapons on dead civilians ,then taking photographic pictures of it.
the united states gain nothing from the war ,with 60,000 + dead u.s soldiers ,thousands m.i.a (s) ,150,000 billion dollars down the drain ,over 100,000 seriously injured soldiers including amputees (missing legs,arms , body parts) ,and handicaps ,torn the country apart during the 60's and 70's ,fail to stop communism,fail to protect south vietnam,fail to stop an army that is 10 time smaller then u.s army,and fail to justified the war in rightious context,basically the united states gave up and retreated.
the north vietnamese suffered high casualty by fighting u.s army,australian army ,arvn army,south korean army,and new zealand all by them self ,but fighting to regain there country for a better vietnam in the future was a well justified reason to die just like anyother civil war (compared this to american civil war casualties).
so one's man ego and his obsession of denial will not change the world's view on why people should think who really won the war,everybody knows who won this war,and media wasnt wrong at all.
A good, although sometimes boring look at the Vietnam War.......2006-03-07
This book has a lot of good information in it. Through the essays you gain a deep understanding of some of the events that influenced the course of the war that other books cover only slightly or omit all together.
There are a couple HORRIBLE essays that seem to drag for a long long time. Each chapter concludes with 2 essays that either have differing points of view or cover different aspects of the chapter in more detail.
The blessing of this book is that it has a lot of information that comes directly from the Vietnamese, including some translations of South Vietnamese army members as they consider their defeat and flee Saigon after the North takes it over.
Over all, I like this book. At least one of the essays in the very beginning is bad enough that I almost put the book down and didn't pick it back up, but once you get past that, you are in for a good read!
Lessons learned.......2006-02-02
As the book title and "a reader" suggests this is a book with tons and tons of essays on the Vietnam War. These essays cover just about everything that was political or social or anything else about the war. It has topics on Kennedy, Johnson, Eisenhower, Nixon, My Lai, The Tet Offensive, discrimination, the domestic homefront, etc. This book provided a great wealth of sources for a research paper that I had to do. However, unless you are really into the Vietnam War, or that era, this book may be a little dry some times. It does provide a lot of good information, such as facts and figures, but it is just a bunch of peoples, the scholars who wrote the essays, opinions; as well as some Vietnam Vets accounts of the war itself, coming home, etc.
I am giving it four out of five because of the dryness that sometimes occurs. Yet, it does remain a really good source for material, if one has to do research or just has general curiosity. Of course, by the end of the book, the reader will begin to see the lessons learned from Vietnam.
a look into the war that America lost.......2002-12-17
This book id a seris of documents that examines the war. It gives the reader alot of insight into how decisons were made and the consequnces of these decisons. it a well rounded look into the war and its aftermath. The book deals with America involvment with the French until the fall of Saigion and the aftermath of the war. The section that deal with the North Vietnamese and there thoughts and roles are particlar strong. a few weak essay hold the book back from a five star rating. Highly recomended
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This text presents a carefully selected group of readings that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. The volume covers World War II from the homefront and the battlefield, examining both the military and social impact of the war.
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays. Major Problems in World War II History follows the proven Major Problems format, with a combination of documents and essays, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.
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This bold and important book strives to be a practical "strategy for a Second American Century." In this brilliantly argued work, Thomas Barnett calls globalization "this country's gift to history" and explains why its wide dissemination is critical to the security of not only America but the entire world. As a senior military analyst for the U.S. Naval War College, Barnett is intimately familiar with the culture of the Pentagon and the State Department (both of which he believes are due for significant overhauls). He explains how the Pentagon, still in shock at the rapid dissolution of the once evil empire, spent the 1990s grasping for a long-term strategy to replace containment. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Barnett argues, revealed the gap between an outdated Cold War-era military and a radically different one needed to deal with emerging threats. He believes that America is the prime mover in developing a "future worth creating" not because of its unrivaled capacity to wage war, but due to its ability to ensure security around the world. Further, he believes that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to create a better world and the way he proposes to do that is by bringing all nations into the fold of globalization, or what he calls connectedness. Eradicating disconnectedness, therefore, is "the defining security task of our age." His stunning predictions of a U.S. annexation of much of Latin America and Canada within 50 years as well as an end to war in the foreseeable future guarantee that the book will be controversial. And that's good. The Pentagon's New Map deserves to be widely discussed. Ultimately, however, the most impressive aspects of the book is not its revolutionary ideas but its overwhelming optimism. Barnett wants the U.S. to pursue the dream of global peace with the same zeal that was applied to preventing global nuclear war with the former Soviet Union. High-level civilian policy makers and top military leaders are already familiar with his vision of the future—this book is a briefing for the rest of us and it cannot be ignored. --Shawn Carkonen
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Building upon the works of Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, and Francis Fukuyama, The Pentagon's New Map describes recent U.S. military history and strategy, discusses where America's forces will likely be heading in the near future, outlines the crucial role the nation needs to play in establishing international stability, and provides much needed hope at one of the most difficult times in American history.
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ONE WORD: GLOBALIZATION.......2007-09-15
I give this book 5 stars for educating me about how the Pentagon thinks, organizes and deals with Internation issues such as military conflicts.
The "New MAP" refers to the POST COLD WAR ERA. Measuring up possible future world powers vs. multiple smaller conflicts, and how "GLOBALIZATION" is steering countries like China towards becoming more Democractic over time.
Mr. Barnett describes his role at the Pentagon, and politics that steer decisions in war time or peace time (Defense Budget inter fighting).
I'm still reading this book, and I know the data is a bit outdated, but for someone newer to this subject, it's still informative and facinating to read, if this subject interests you.
The Pentagon,s New Map - a recipe for continuing millitary catastrophies........2007-06-27
This book is pure salesmanship for a person and a point of view. It is not fun to read, but it is probably important that it be read because it provides insight into the incredibly mundane world of selling military solutions to congress and the administration. What are touted as great ideas turn out to be simplistic interpretations of the world situation based upon a lack of understanding of culutral diversity and concern for human rights. Because it is important for the public to understand how the U.S. gets into stupid, counterproductive militeary adventrures it is imporant that this book be widely read, however it is tedious and tiresome to be continually barraged with the authors misguided and unsophisticated views.
Must read.......2007-05-18
This book is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the world at large. Barnett puts issues of security and economics within the context of globalization. A true guide to our 21st century universe.
A Most Important and Dangerous Book.......2007-04-03
Thomas P. M. Barnett's "The Pentagon's New Map" is one of the most important Post-Cold War books on defense, and possibly THE most important book on American national security written in decades. "The Pentagon's New Map" is also one of the most, if not THE most dangerous books on American national security written in the same timeframe.
Dr Barnett's `Functional Core and Gap' model of the world is a compelling construct for America's policymakers to use in future national security planning endeavors -- executed as part of a comprehensive American (and Core) grand strategy to shrink the Gap that is the source of so much of the recent and current world strife.
The Core-Gap construct and analysis alone earns this book a place on the shelf of any serious military library. It goes far in clearly identifying much of the world's systemic problems and provides a powerful argument for use in framing the development of possible strategies and tactics to form a long-term strategy and designing long-term solutions. In short, the Core-Gap construct is a superb starting point for analyzing future security needs and developing a national `grand strategy'.
The author correctly signals his world model's greatest strength as being the `repeatability' of the Core-Gap construct. That is, understanding of the construct is compelling and tends to convince any rational audience of the truth of it -- regardless of political party or position in the American ideological spectrum. What makes this construct even more compelling is the truth of it comes through in spite of the book's surrounding conceptual (no convincing rationale for keeping current defense spending at historically low levels for example, and oversimplification of what it takes to make and maintain a `Leviathan' for another), and perceptual (the author's perspective benefits AND suffers from having been `inside the Navy', but not `of it') missteps. All these errors in the early chapters are irritations, but do not detract at all from the beauty of the Core-Gap model and understanding as to how and where the world is (or is not) working.
However, problems with the author's arguments in the first half of the book that are introduced as part of convincing the reader of the `truth' of the Core-Gap model unfortunately multiply and cascade later in the text-- and become foundations for much of what is wrong with the second half of the book.
`Repeatability' begins to fade in Chapter 5 and takes a beating from Chapter 6 onward, when Dr Barnett begins expanding on ideas and providing the details of his vision. When the author lays out the `hows' and `whats' whereby the Core shrinks the Gap via his prescriptions for structural changes to the United States and the world, it is then that the gamut of probable, possible, and fanciful inexplicably get rolled up into the `inevitable'. Dr. Barnett goes to great lengths to present the Core-Gap model within a logical framework as ideology-free as possible (which I believe hinders him somewhat in identifying causal factors from time to time), but Dr. Barnett's ideological bent hemmorages over the second half of the material - and this prevents the arguments for his way forward from ever being as `repeatable' as the argument for the Core-Gap construct.
Given the senior political and military leadership audience that Dr. Barnett has gained for his Core-Gap construct in the wake of 9/11/2001, his vision of the future may gain far more interest, acolytes, and apostles than it otherwise would or should have. If military and civilian long-range thinkers 1) ignore the problems with the `how' the U.S. should achieve the ambitious end-state the authors offers as our future, or even the problematic end objectives themselves, and 2) embrace instead the Core-Gap construct with its baggage intact, then the unfortunate `perturbations' of this book could be ruinous to the long term security and well-being of the nation, as well as the Core and the Gap - hence my `Most Dangerous' assignation (and decision to review this book as my first for Amazon).
Read this book and embrace the Core-Gap model by all means. But to safely traverse the whole book, keep a wary eye open for optimism, cynicism, oversimplification, unnecessary complexity, and more.....in all the wrong places.
This book projects the future - and its right on in Iraq.......2007-02-15
I bought and read this book because I watched the author giving a powerpoint presentation on PBS. I don't know if you've ever sat through one of these, but I actually wanted to buy a tape of the show just so I could see it again. HIGHTLY recommended, and his projections for the future of the military are already happening exactly how he describes.
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Ambitious, pleasantly arrogant, often thought provoking, occasionally convincing........2006-09-19
Barnett is very ambitious in this book, pleasantly arrogant in tone, slightly presumptuous in his conclusions, but often thought provoking and occasionally convincing.
According to Barnett, connectivity (read globalization) is the key to world peace and prosperity. Countries that are integrated into the world economy don't go to war with each other. Standards of living rise leading to less frustration and less violence internally and towards the world. Connectivity is therefore a moral good with essentially limitless potential for making the world a better place. The United States, as the sole remaining superpower, has a responsibility to maintain a safe environment for globalization. It should aggressively expand globalization by being the Leviathan that provides the order necessary for commerce and connectivity. America's military is so vastly superior to any competitor that it is the de-facto Leviathan. America should use preemptive war to remove really disruptive forces from power and expand connectivity to their countries.
If America does this then the non-integrated gap will shrink, eventually disappearing (the disappearing is implied in the book, not explicit), and the world will have "a future worth creating."
A few criticisms:
I'm uncomfortable with the future being defined with such clear terms and such broad strokes. The broad strokes by nature don't address the details of his argument and it is at the detail level that the truth or falsehood of a theory can be examined. Otherwise, his theory is merely an assertion, and whether I accept it or not has less to do with its basis in reality than with the package it comes in: the persuasiveness of its presenter (a matter of rhetoric rather than evidence), anecdotal evidence, illustrations, etc.
I appreciate his effort to paint the future in an optimistic light but I think that his statement that "the end of war is within our historical grasp" is wrong. I see no indicators of war's demise. It seems alive and well.
Also, I find it dangerous to extrapolate too much from current trends, which is what Barnett is essentially doing. He takes the past 15-25 years and looks at what globalization has caused in that time. It has been truly amazing. But to extend that trajectory, sans hiccups, into the indefinite future, is to commit the same fallacy that most prophets fall to: The future as an extension of the present. That said I want to have that hope... the end of war and internal state violence are definitely goals to shoot for. But not realistic ones, I fear.
I agree with him that we probably won't end up going to war with China... but I disagree with him regarding their capabilities. They are more capable than he gives them credit for, and the situation is not quite as in-the-bag as he indicates.
So, I come away appreciating some of his big points, even if he doesn't spell out their mechanics: globalization will bring an increasing level of prosperity to the regions it touches. Good. I agree, with reservations. Is globalization the unalloyed moral good he seems to think it is? Is it something worth shedding blood over? I don't propose an alternative but I am uncomfortable with the ease that war becomes an option in this book.
I'm also hesitant about his role of the US as the Leviathan of the world. I agree that no military in the world is America's equal, and no military in the world could take on the role of international system guarantor... but ability does not equal moral imperative.
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