Bøger af Benjamin Franklin Cooling
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453,95 kr. To military aviators, "air superiority" is an unquestioned prerequisite for effective aerial operations. Stripped to its barest essentials, it has a deceptively simple definition. As the authoritative Department of Defense Diction of Military and Associated Terms declares: air superiority is "that degree of dominance in the air battle of one force over another which permits the conduct of operations by the former and its related land, sea, and air forces at a given time and place without prohibitive interference by the opposing force". These are case studies in the achievement of air superiority.
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- War, Business, and Building a National Security State
728,95 kr. While many associate the concept referred to as the 'military-industrial complex' with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was 'part of historical lore' as the American nation discovered the inextricable relationship between arms and the State.
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- 728,95 kr.
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- From the Peninsula to the Antietam
243,95 kr. During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union's earlier multi-theatre thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust.
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- Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man
663,95 kr. In Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the pantheon of Confederate heroes and villains.
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- 663,95 kr.
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- Herald of Empire
283,95 kr. The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the nineteenth century, she became famous as Admiral George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay.
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- 283,95 kr.
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- The Fort Stevens Story
876,95 kr. In The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story, historian B.F. Cooling documents the story of President Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864.
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