Examines the political, bureaucratic, technical and budgetary roots of the American military defence policy. The book goes further, to portray the procurement and construction required to turn policy into actuality.
Even if law and public policy would allow them to move to a particular suburb, they might then face threats, and at times violence, from white neighborhood residents.28 Other groups were also excluded or discouraged from suburban home ...
Halleck, Henry Wager. Elements ofMilitary Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactics of Battles & Etc. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 1846 (1971 rep.). Hanft, Marshall. The Cape Forts: Guardians of ...
Up on the bridge , perched fifty - five feet above the waterline , an officer calls out the headings , but the helm is in the hands of a twenty - seven - year - old bosun's mate , Eddie Lamon of Orlando , Florida .
This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically.
In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic.
Turning the country into -a fortress would bankrupt the treasury, dramatically change our daily lives, and fundamentally alter the essence of what it is to be an American. And still we would have no guarantees of safety because ...
In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic.
From an unheeded warning six years before the WTC disaster to dramatic war-game scenarios secretly conducted at Andrews Air Force Base and chilling on-site simulations of actual attacks, Fortress America paints a sobering picture of the ...
Follows the career of a U.S. Army officer during the downfall of the United States.