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...s; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with... ...gainst his will. And yet even those who wholly engage themselves in such a war may behave them- selves with such temper and moderation, that the storm... ...nd I know, amongst those who behave themselves most bravely in the present war, some whose manners are so gentle, obliging, and just, that they will c... ...the cause, but their interest, that inflames them; they kindle and begin a war, not because it is just, but because it is war. A man may very well beh... ...by ordinary ways; what, therefore, they could not do legitimately, without war and without danger, they resolved to do by treachery; and what they cou... ... said to Alexander: “Your father will leave you a great dominion, easy and pacific”; this youth was emulous of his father’s victories and of the justi...

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...arious voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole. You may remember... ...pest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed alo... ...eel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me...

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...1 THE INFANCY OF AIRPOWER. . . . . . . . . .3 2 NAVAL AVIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 AIRPOWER IN WORLD WAR I . . . . . . . . . 11 4 LAYING THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, 1919–1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5 AN AGE OF INNOVATION, 1931–1941 . . . . 19 6 NAVAL AVIATION BETWEEN THE WARS . . . .23 7 WORLD WAR...

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...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see... ...ield between have countries and have-not countries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish).... ...ecrepit - fixed phone network. Thus, in Serbia, smarting from a decade of war and destitution, both the penetration and the growth rates are dismal, ... ... role of satellite telephones in the media coverage of the televised Gulf War - or the anti Ceausescu revolution in Romania. These are precisely the... ... Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses...

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... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I... ...nse Forces (IDF). Consequently, they don't enjoy the special benefits conferred on war veterans and ex-soldiers. Regrettably, it is also true that... ...ture and its attendant bureaucratic apparatus. All this changed after the Six Days War in 1967 and, even more so, after the Yom Kippur War. Militan... ...essed against the corrupt elite - is highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when the narcissist has become convinced t... ...much help to Europe as it reasserts the Monroe doctrine and attends to its growing Pacific and Asian preoccupations. It may assist the EU to cope w... ...stitute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I... ...nse Forces (IDF). Consequently, they don't enjoy the special benefits conferred on war veterans and ex-soldiers. Regrettably, it is also true that... ...ture and its attendant bureaucratic apparatus. All this changed after the Six Days War in 1967 and, even more so, after the Yom Kippur War. Militan... ...essed against the corrupt elite - is highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when the narcissist has become convinced t... ...much help to Europe as it reasserts the Monroe doctrine and attends to its growing Pacific and Asian preoccupations. It may assist the EU to cope w... ...stitute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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...ung become the kernel of long-term unemployment. This is because a tug of war, a basic conflict of interests exists between the “haves” and “have-no... ...nfluence on economists and governments during and immediately after World War II, with the result that monetary policy was not tried very much durin... ... employment was generally accepted in most industrial countries after the war. In 1944 the British government stated in its White Paper on Employmen... ...lities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war." One of the most influential British economists at this time was Sir ... ...nemployment. The U.S. full-employment budget was developed during World War II and has been regularly published in the president's annual Economic... ...ing study grants conditional on the student's return home." The key to a pacific and prosperous future lies in a multilateral agreement between bra... ... Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses...

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... Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Defici... ...e contributed to the froth. Greenspan and his ilk seem to be fighting yesteryear's war against a long-slain monster. The obsession with price stab... ...t. Congress went even further, providing coverage for 180 days and a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. Th... ...sport industry, by January this year, no re-insurer agreed to underwrite terror and war risks. The market ground to a screeching halt. AIG was the o... ...atastrophe, natural or man made. In Israel, South Africa, and Spain, terrorism and war damages are indemnified by the state or insurance consortia ... ... the urban sans- culotte raised a fuss against the economically enfranchised. This pacific co-existence conceals a maelstrom of envy. Behold the ra... ...n for Africa adopted anti-corruption guidelines in 1999. The otherwise opaque Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is now championing tra... ...stitute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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...in the global economy which contracted in 2009, the first time since World War II. There is not a single country in the world which has not been affec... ...kstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Bain Capital, TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). Together, these com... ...aos in the 1920s and 1930s. Capital controls were widely used in the inter-war years and immediately after World War II. Given the fact that reconstru... ... trade was the primary concern, most of the controls in the immediate post war period were associated with foreign trade. At that time, the basic link... ...ement of capital through markets was almost inconceivable. During the post-war period, even the mainstream wisdom favored the imposition of capital co...

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... financial crisis management led Albania to the verge of disintegration and a civil war. Rioters invaded police stations and army barracks and expro... ... gripped the nation just prior to the Great Depression. As Europe wallowed in post-war malaise, America seemed to have discovered a new economy, th... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ... The market is besieged by - mostly offshore - mutual funds managed by the likes of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), AllianceBernstein... ... Deficit The Delicate Art of Balancing the Budget Economic Management in a State of War Governments and Growth Iraq's Reconstruction - Payback Time ... ...lic since then - and not for lack of candidates. Poland is a special case. The pre-war (1934) law declares bankruptcy in a state of lasting illiqui... ...stitute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ...o that settlement after General Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Depart- ment that, in his opinion, no such movement was neces- sary to ... ...ter from you. Most truly your friend, A. LINCOLN. SPEECH ON DECLARATION OF WAR ON MEXICO SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY... ...oud 148 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two sobriquet of the “Great Pacificator,” and by that title, and for that service, his political friend... ... we will accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific mea- sures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on prin- cipl...

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... a cost. Alas! Pons did not dare to confess that heart and stomach were at war within him, that he could digest affronts which pained his heart, and, ... ...; or she would spill the gravy over his clothes. In short, she waged petty war after the manner of a petty nature, knowing that she could annoy an unf... ...d with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating element in the compound of artless- n... ...eum rooms and furniture with the agility of sailors cleaning down a man-of-war. There was not a speck of dust on the carved wood; not an inch of brass... ...ed Schmucke’s soul—he was moved to call Pons’ amphitryons “fools.” For his pacific nature that impulse equaled the wrath of Roland. With wise foresigh... ...e statesman, in the conceptions of the inventor, or the soldier’s toils of war; the fire within is apt to flash out in gleams of marvelously vivid lig... ...the service of these two gentlemen. V ery good! That is a declara- tion of war against the Presidente. You mean to do every- thing you can to gain pos...

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... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...untries. No, Father, if we are to stop the drug trade we must have an all-out war. Call it a 'Holy War' if you like, but nonetheless, a war!" "Sena... ...mis managed a smile. "In the meantime, I will consider other ideas, besides a war." Artemis wanted to say something more, but didn't know how, so he... ...rrow, they are bringing in a ton of cocaine. The cargo will land at three a.m Pacific time at the San Diego port. The ship is called the Buenos Suer... ...tles of DOS XXs and sitting down next to him. He looked out over the tranquil Pacific. "Ah, the ocean is so calm today. But soon it will turn into a ... ...U.S. can get the Colombian government to give us cover, we can go in from the Pacific side here and here." Gallucci pointed to the nearest spots to ... ...anta Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific ocean he surfed in as a young man. He wished he could hike in ... ...ad taken over Cardona's expansive, hillside villa that over looked the serene Pacific. Cardona had betrayed him, as he had expected. His assassins ha...

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...n account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute powers of observatio...

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...WTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING...

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...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ...mit that violence in films, TV programming and video games, helps to make better soldiers—where killing is an ideal form of behavior. In World War I ... ...for most soldiers to do. Then the psychologists helped the propagandists to develop their warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II... ...ere goose-stepping cogs in a terror machine bent on conquering the world while gassing undesirable gypsies and Jews along the way. The Korean War‘s ... ...xperience. ―Another was approaching Saturn‘s rings. And one of the big ones was returning to earth, seeing the Rockies, Baja, and the Pacifi...

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... flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand A...

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...est toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting symbolic images lets ... ...ve Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation a... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...‘s most amazing empire. Mongolian climates challenge man and beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asi... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unl... ... would overrun everything from the Indus River to the Danube and from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Mongols promised justice to tho... ...n 1227:  His armies were undefeated,  His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea, and  His realm was twice the size of t... ...ility of the Mongol Empire he had created. The victor in the family civil war was a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even gre... ...er adapted the tribal battle tactics of his mounted nomad hunters to wage war against civilized nations:  Each warrior carried only what he need...

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...Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with a Harvard education and membership to New York City’s...

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...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...ark be just, it be- comes useful to inquire whether so many just causes of war are likely to be given by united America as by disunited America; for i... ...erve the people in a state of peace with other nations. The just causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from dir... ...ental violations of treaties and the laws of nations afford jsut causes of war, they are less to be apprehended under one general govern- ment than un... ...nd the cabals of a third,*** had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a con- siderable part of Europe, are topics that have bee... ...red and alienated from each other. The genius of republics (say they) is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of me... ...posite interests of the parties, they might not easily be susceptible of a pacific adjustment. In the wide field of Western territory, therefore, we p... ... army, ready for the service of ambi- tion or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corr...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...acks. 96 The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the number of NORAD alert sites was reduced from its Cold Wa... ...k, and the 1995 Manila air plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Details on these plots appear in chapter 3. Another scheme reveale... ...the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultane- ously . Khalid Sheikh Moh... ...n, especially those for Strategic Forces and for four regions: Europe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South. Posts in these commands became prized a... ...nka” plot—the intended bomb- ing of 12 U.S. commercial jumbo jets over the Pacific during a two-day span. This marked the first time KSM took part in ... ...r plot.The oper- atives would hijack U.S.-flagged commercial planes flying Pacific routes across East Asia and destroy them in midair, possibly with s...

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...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...aise at Washington a vast obelisk to the memory of Washington—the first in war and first in peace, as the country is proud to call him. This obelisk i... ...s to that boast made on his behalf by his countrymen, that he was first in war and first in peace? Washington was a great man, and I believe a good ma... ...their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a sloop-of-war which was now lying in the river, ready to go to sea, and ready also to... ...is scope enough for all that man- hood can do between the Atlantic and the Pacific, even though those hot, swampy cotton fields be taken away; even th... ... American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to those on the Pacific. There is a population of thirty million souls. At the present mo- ...

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...d pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, buildin... ...ir acquaintance, it will be instructive to observe the instances multiply of pacific, ac quiescing manners; and to find how compatible it is to be gr... ...an not have the help expected from my papers, many of them being lost in the war. I have, however, found the following. ]* HAVING mentioned a great an... ... when collected. With respect to defense, Spain having been several years at war against Great Britain, and being at length join’d by France, which br... ...mounted on our battery, where the associators kept a nightly guard while the war lasted, and among the rest I regularly took my turn of duty there as ... ...ch greater number of them than I could have imagined, tho’ against offensive war, were clearly for the defensive. Many pamphlets pro and con were publ...

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... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ... ..., and the weariness of their marching. And I would think too of that other war which is as old as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparin... ...r which is as old as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competi- tion; the toil of seventy years, dear... ...ody; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. All sluggish and pacific pleasures are, to the same degree, solitary and selfish; and every ...