Bøker utgitt av Potomac Books Inc

My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering.

On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later. When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the rest of the United States, was focused on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Congress held no hearings about the bombings, the national security community held no after-action reviews, and the mandatory Accountability Review Board focused on narrow security issues. Then on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. homeland, and the East Africa bombings became little more than an historical footnote.Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is Bushnell’s account of her quest to understand how these bombings could have happened, given the scrutiny bin Laden and his cell in Nairobi had been getting since 1996 from special groups in the National Security Council, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Bushnell tracks national security strategies and assumptions about terrorism and the Muslim world that failed to keep us safe in 1998. In this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account, she reveals what led to poor decisions in Washington and demonstrates how diplomacy and leadership will be our country’s most potent defense going forward.

Heather Selma Gregg argues that the U.S.-led efforts to "nation build" in both Iraq and Afghanistan failed to focus on the population and build national unity as part of its state building efforts.

The Soldier from Independence recounts the World War I military adventure that would mark a turning point in the life of a humble man who would go on to become commander in chief as the thirty-third president of the United States.

A son details the negotiations between a German Jew and the Nazi mass-murderer Heinrich Himmler that allowed for the release of women, including his mother, held in the Ravensbruck concentration camp.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative-one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.

A new look at terrorism and how politics, the media, and the War on Terror play off one another.

This After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate what Tim O'Brien calls a "true war story": one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.

Rodger McDaniel offers readers a glimpse into twentieth-century political shifts through the perspective of the liberal senator Gale McGee from a rural conservative state.

Blaming China makes a compelling case that America's political dysfunction, economic insecurity, and cultural fragmentation will create an environment where conflict with China becomes the rational choice of Americans who view China as the cause of their problems.

Peter Stehman resurrects the details of a World War I hate crime perpetrated on American soil against a German immigrant. Focusing on a time when Americans had been whipped into a patriotic frenzy by government propaganda and hate-mongering, this story illuminates a dark past that still bleeds into today.

How China Sees the World explores the roots of the growing Han nationalist group and the implications of Chinese hypernationalism for international relations.

Using examples from recent female-centric pop culture media and topics, Dianna E. Anderson shows how critics' insistence on a pure feminist portrayal fails the movement's attempt at feminist advancement.

Brian G. Shellum tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force to defend Liberia between 1910 and 1942.

¿The ugly wife is a treasure at home¿ is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese marriage involved matchmakers, child brides, dowries, and concubines, until the People¿s Republic of China was established by Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in 1949. Initially encouraging citizens to reject traditional arranged marriages and wed for love, the party soon spurned ¿the sin of putting love first,¿ fearful that romantic love would distract good Communists from selflessly carrying out the State¿s agenda. Under Mao, the party established the power to approve or reject proposed marriages, to dictate where couples would live, and to determine if they would live together. By the 1960s and 1970s, romantic love had become a counterrevolutionary act punishable by ¿struggle sessions¿ or even imprisonment. The importance of Chinese sons, however, did not wane during Maös thirty-year regime. As such, in a world where nobody spoke of love, 99 percent of young women still married. The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home draws the reader into the world of love in Communist China through the personal memories of those who endured the Cultural Revolution and the generations that followed. This collection of intimate and remarkable stories gives readers a rare view of Chinese history, social customs, and Communism from the perspective of today¿s ordinary citizens.

As the world has become increasingly digitally interconnected, military leaders and other actors are ditching symmetric power strategies in favor of cyberstrategies. Cyberpower enables actors to change actual economic outcomes without the massive resource investment required for military force deployments.Cashing In on Cyberpower addresses the question, Why and to what end are state and nonstate actors using cybertools to influence economic outcomes? The most devastating uses of cyberpower can include intellectual property theft, espionage to uncover carefully planned trade strategies, and outright market manipulation through resource and currency values. Offering eight hypotheses to address this central question, Mark T. Peters II considers every major cyberattack (almost two hundred) over the past ten years, providing both a quick reference and a comparative analysis. He also develops new case studies depicting the 2010 intellectual property theft of a gold-detector design from the Australian Codan corporation, the 2012 trade negotiation espionage in the Japanese Trans-Pacific Partnership preparations, and the 2015 cyberattacks on Ukrainian SCADA systems. All these hypotheses combine to identify new data and provide a concrete baseline of how leaders use cybermeans to achieve economic outcomes.

The Vietnam War aircraft carrier USS Oriskany and its aviators come to life in this memorial to the fallen of Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16), which experienced the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during the war.

The War Against the Vets tells the true story of the Bonus Army and the political battles waged against them.

The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable odyssey of a spirited young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--and her journey from unhappy housewife to daring leader of a notorious Middle East spy ring.

How the bipartisan partnership of President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg revolutionised America's foreign policy and set the course for America's global leadership.

On a US military base near Fallujah in Iraq, Col. John Folsom woke up one morning to the sound of a small, scruffy donkey tied up outside his quarters. Folsom and his fellow Marines took in the donkey, built him a shelter, and escorted him on daily walks. This book recounts the strong friendship between Folsom and this stray donkey and the challenges of reuniting Smoke with Folsom in the US.

Recounts how the US military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences, ignoring Iraqi citizens and the wider Arab population, and playing mere lip service to the directive: "put an Iraqi face on everything." Steven J. Alvarez couples his experiences as a public affairs officer in Iraq with extensive research on communication and government relations.