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In Eurasia vs. NATOstan, Pepe Escobar takes us on a whirlwind journey through the swirling sands of the 21st century's defining clash. From the ancient Silk Roads to the modern-day War of Economic Corridors, Escobar paints a vivid picture of a world in transition, where the old order is crumbling and a new, multipolar reality is struggling to be born.
With his nonpareil blend of historical insight, deep cultural appreciation, and sharp geopolitical analysis, Escobar exposes the West's rules-based international order for the sham it is, a mere smokescreen for the Empire of Chaos to perpetuate its forever wars and plunder the Global South. But the tide is turning. Led by the Russia-China strategic partnership, a new Global Majority is rising, forging new alliances and building alternative systems that bypass the West's rigged game.
Eurasia vs. NATOstan is not just a chronicle of our turbulent times; it is a call to action. Escobar challenges us to shed the blinkers of Western exceptionalism and embrace the possibilities of a truly multipolar world, where cooperation, mutual respect, and a shared future for all replace the toxicities of war, division, and neocolonialism.
Includes Index of Persons; Timeline of the Rise of a New World Order; and a glossary of selected Escobarisms.
Seventh volume in Escobar's Chronicles of Liquid War, which also includes:
The Chronicles of Liquid War offer a unique and critical perspective on the changing nature of conflict in the 21st century, moving beyond simplistic narratives and exploring the complex interplay of geopolitics, economics, and technology with complete disregard for conventional Western and mainstream media narratives.
The inaugural Space Capstone Publication, Spacepower is capstone doctrine for the United States Space Force and represents our Service's first articulation of an independent theory of spacepower. This publication answers why spacepower is vital for our Nation, how military spacepower is employed, who military space forces are, and what military space forces value. In short, this capstone document is the foundation of our professional body of knowledge as we forge an independent military Service committed to space operations. Like all doctrine, the SCP remains subject to the policies and strategies that govern its employment. Military spacepower has deterrent and coercive capacities - it provides independent options for National and Joint leadership but achieves its greatest potential when integrated with other forms of military power. As we grow spacepower theory and doctrine, we must do so in a way that fosters greater integration with the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. It is only by achieving true integration and interdependence that we can hope to unlock spacepower's full potential.
Agility, innovation, and boldness have always been the touchstone traits of military space forces. Today, we must harness these traits to pioneer a new Service and a new professional body of knowledge. This capstone doctrine is a point-of-departure toward that goal, not a final adjudication. Given the nascent state of spacepower theory, this publication will inevitably evolve over time as it is applied, evaluated, and refined. Therefore, military space forces are encouraged to read, critique, debate, and improve upon the ideas that follow.
Other questions also demand answers. What is the xGW framework, which many theorists use to describe 5GW? What alternatives to the xGW framework exist? What 5GWs have been observed? What are the source documents for the xGW framework? What is the universe of discourse that the xGW framework emerged from? Why bother trying to understand 5GW?
This handbook attempts to provide systematic answers to these questions in several major sections, each of which is written by many contributors. While this handbook records many different voices of 5GW research, it speaks with one voice on the need to understand 5GW, the fifth gradient of warfare.
Operation Highjump, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN that sent 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. This 543-page volume is the full account of the operation. At the time of this reproduction, per OCLC's WORLDCAT global library catalog, the original printed copies were available in only two libraries in the world, the Naval Postgraduate School Library in Monterey and the Canterbury University library in New Zealand. This is a facsimile of the best available reproduction available to the Defense Technical Information Center. The copy furnished to DTIC contained a significant number of pages which do not reproduce legibly.
The story of the long-hidden polar expedition will appeal to fans of such outstanding writers as John Campbell, Charles Stross, Alastair Maclean, and Dan Simmons, who have all written exciting novels in similar settings. This completely factual account will also provide valuable ballast to credulous viewers of programs such as ANCIENT ALIENS and its fanciful stories of Nazi submarines and aliens in Antarctica.
The US nuclear submarine THRESHER (SSN-593) was lost because standard compensation procedures to adjust for hull compression during the deep-dive on 10 April 1963 were not followed. Consequently, THRESHER was heavy (negatively buoyant) at test-depth (1300 feet) and unable to deballast because adiabatic cooling froze moisture in the air-lines to the ballast tanks, blocking those lines.
Operation of the Reactor (Main) Coolant Pumps in FAST (2-pole mode) may have contributed to a reactor scram (shut-down) and loss of propulsion at 0909.0R (local time). THRESHER sank at an average rate of 120ft/min from test-depth (1300-feet) at 0909.0R to collapse at 09:18:24R at a depth of 2400-feet (1070 psi) in 1/20th of a second, too fast to be cognitively recognized by those aboard who - although they knew collapse was imminent - never knew it was occurring.
The Navy Court of Inquiry (COl) dismissed the results of their own test which established conclusively that flooding at test-depth - the COI's assessed cause of the disaster - would have been a catastrophic
event and would not have been reported by THRESHER to her escort ship, the USS SKYLARK (ASR 20), at 0913R as experiencing minor difficulties. Multiple lines of evidence - discussed in detail by Chapter
1 of this assessment - confirm there was no flooding prior to collapse of the pressure-hull at great depth.
In Eurasia vs. NATOstan, Pepe Escobar takes us on a whirlwind journey through the swirling sands of the 21st century's defining clash. From the ancient Silk Roads to the modern-day War of Economic Corridors, Escobar paints a vivid picture of a world in transition, where the old order is crumbling and a new, multipolar reality is struggling to be born.
With his nonpareil blend of historical insight, deep cultural appreciation, and sharp geopolitical analysis, Escobar exposes the West's rules-based international order for the sham it is, a mere smokescreen for the Empire of Chaos to perpetuate its forever wars and plunder the Global South. But the tide is turning. Led by the Russia-China strategic partnership, a new Global Majority is rising, forging new alliances and building alternative systems that bypass the West's rigged game.
Eurasia vs. NATOstan is not just a chronicle of our turbulent times; it is a call to action. Escobar challenges us to shed the blinkers of Western exceptionalism and embrace the possibilities of a truly multipolar world, where cooperation, mutual respect, and a shared future for all replace the toxicities of war, division, and neocolonialism.
Includes Index of Persons; Timeline of the Rise of a New World Order; and a glossary of selected Escobarisms.
Seventh volume in Escobar's Chronicles of Liquid War, which also includes:
The Chronicles of Liquid War offer a unique and critical perspective on the changing nature of conflict in the 21st century, moving beyond simplistic narratives and exploring the complex interplay of geopolitics, economics, and technology with complete disregard for conventional Western and mainstream media narratives.
During World War II, navies developed camouflage for their ships. Applying it to both vertical and horizontal surfaces, they reduced visibility and confused the identities of their ships to the enemy. Maritime artist Malcolm Wright, author of popular books on British naval camouflage schemes in World War II, now turns his attention to the ships and aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army from 1932 to 1945. Many schemes included in this volume are difficult to find without intensive research, making this a unique and valuable resource. The book covers every ship type from battleship to the smallest auxiliary, including the riverine craft that fought in China, all the ships in the separate fleet operated by the Imperial Japanese Army, and three special bonus pages describing camouflage schemes for selected hard-to-research ships from other navies. The timespan covered actually goes beyond 1932-45 and includes developmental milestones for each ship and class, from the 1914 construction of the battlecruiser KONGO to the 1946-47 repatriation service of the surviving vessels and their subsequent transfer to victorious navies.
At 288 11 x 8.5 pages with half-inch margins and 9-point type, this book offers almost double the content area of the previous volumes in the series, which were 196 10 x 8 pages each, with a somewhat challenging 7-point font. This expansive and reader-friendly layout allows for numerous full-page spotlight views of important and interesting ships and planes, for a total of 952 images and captions. The durable case laminate jacket and 70-pound premium paper assure a long-lasting and pleasant physical experience.
The captions combine construction, refit and service histories with sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes. Since sadly most pictures of World War II are in black and white, this book is a delight for anyone who wants to visualize the war as it actually occurred, in color. With its unparalled depth of technical detail and breadth of coverage, it is a must-have for students of naval history, the war in the Pacific, wargaming, and ship and aircraft modelling.
The highly readable captions combine construction, refit and service histories with sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes. Since sadly most pictures of World War II are in black and white, this book is a delight for anyone who wants to visualize the war as it actually occurred, in color. With its unparalleled depth of technical detail and breadth of coverage, it is a must-have for students of naval history, the war in the Pacific, wargaming, and ship and aircraft modeling.
The current printing includes fixes to several issues reported by reviewers, including making the ship scales consistent on page 7, cleaning up images on page 49 and 67, increasing image size on page 123, and removing a duplicate paragraph on page 187.
In today's world, where logistics and supply chains dominate headlines, understanding the challenges and triumphs of wartime base construction and operation offers valuable (and timely) insights. The US and an expansionist East Asian power are once again jockeying to acquire (and deny) access to the remote, undeveloped, and beautiful island bases in the Southwest Pacific described in this book. Similarly, US Marine Corps is in the midst of rebuilding itself for a distributed, mobile campaign focused on small and medium-sized transport, very similar to the campaigns waged by the PTs in the Solomons and New Guinea.
For history enthusiasts, WWII veterans and their families, model builders, and those interested in naval and military history, this book provides a unique perspective on the Pacific War. Discover how the Seabees, base personnel, and local populations worked tirelessly under harsh conditions to build and maintain these vital hubs of activity.
PT Boat Bases explores the evolution of bases from makeshift camps to sophisticated facilities, covering key locations such as Tulagi, Rendova, and Green Island. Through vivid descriptions and captivating photographs, you'll witness the construction of docks, repair shops, and living quarters, and gain an understanding of the complex logistical challenges faced.
Unique features include:
While the exploits of PT boats have been well documented, the logistical backbone that kept them operational remains largely unexplored. This book by PT expert Frank J. Andruss Sr. (The Mosquito Fleet Exhibit) and former Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman (SWCC) Ted Walther documents the crucial yet often overlooked role of PT boat bases in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Originally published in 1925, this short, readable, brilliant book was a milestone in the history of astrophysics. This beautiful reprint makes a fantastic gift for any young person interested in science. In its pages, Cecilia H. Payne presented a rigorous and innovative analysis of stellar spectra, which led her to propose that stars were predominantly composed of hydrogen and helium. Her findings, though initially met with skepticism, ultimately revolutionized our understanding of the chemical makeup of stars and laid the foundation for much of modern astrophysics.
The Editor's Foreword, by Harvard's Harlow Shapley, is dated May 1, 1925, and closes with the simple observation: The book has been accepted as a thesis fulfilling the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Radcliffe College.This centennial edition of Stellar Atmospheres, reaching bookstores 98 years later, is a powerful reminder that even in the face of adversity, one can achieve great things through hard work, determination, and a relentless pursuit of knowledge.
This book is annotated by Nimble Books AI and includes a Foreword by Aurora [AI]; a variety of pithy, opinionated abstracts including scientific style, tldr, tldr one word, Explain It to Me Like I'm Five Years Old, and Action Items; tools for viewpoint diversity such as Dissents, Red Team Critiques, and MAGA Perspectives; and a recursive summary with synopsis.
This volume contains four articles written by personnel of the National Security Agency (NSA) about the Voynich manuscript from 1965 to 1978.
The first essay, by Brigadier John Tiltman, is entitled The Voynich Manuscript: The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World and was presented to the Baltimore Bibliophiles in 1967. It provides a basic summary of facts about the manuscript and its provenance and adds a survey of proposed solutions, most of which it dispenses with quite quickly. I found it interesting to discover that Tiltman was first introduced to the Voynich ms. by William Friedman, founder of the NSA, in 1947 ( ) I was also intrigued that Tiltman's scholarly research into the history of medieval herbalism included consultations with leading English academics, no doubt during visits on Five Eyes business.
The second essay, originally classifed Top Secret Umbra, is An Application of PTAH to the Voynich Manuscript by Mary D'Imperio - the title itself was unclassified. A few pages in, I came to a full stop when I encountered this:
PTAH (named for the Egyptian god of wisdom), is a general statistical method developed at IDA (Institute for Defense Analyses), Princeton University. PTAH got its name when a programmer. Mr.Gerry Mitchell, was listening to the opera Aida while working on his program. He was struck by the passage immenso Ptah noi invociam, and named his program after the Egyptian god. The name was ultimately extended from this program, implementing a particular application of the method, to the method and its mathematical theory as well...
The technical meaning of PTAH remains classified, although Google helped me find a journal article that suggests PTAH must be some sort of Hidden Markov Model. (Math. Comput. Appl. 2019, 24, 14; doi:10.3390/mca24010014)
D'Imperio used PTAH to analyze the Voynich manuscript and similar works and concluded that I find the above comparisions quite convincing support for a view that the Voynich text, regarded as a string of single letters, does not 'act like' natural language. Instead, it exhibits a clear positional regularity or characters within words. I believe that these findings strengthen the theory of Friedman and Tiltman that an artificial language may underlie the Yoynich text.
Government interest dating back to 1947 ... pharmacology unknown to modern man ... artificial languages ... the movie ARRIVAL based on Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life ... hmmm ...
The third essay, also by D'Imperio, is An Application of Cluster Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling to the Question of 'Hands' and 'Languages' in the Voynich Manuscript. She uses cluster analytic techniques to examine findings by Captain Prescott Currier, who suggested that the manuscript's pages can be clustered into groups of multiple authors and styles. D'Imperio's discussion includes warnings that are still sound today: The interpretation of cluster analysis results is unavoidably circular; we propose a certain structure in the group of objects under study, we perform the computation, and we are happy if we see what we expected, or at least something that makes sense in terms of our original hypothesis, however revised.
The fourth and final essay, by James Child, takes an important step forward by proposing that the Voynich Manuscript does not contain an artificial language nor the enciphered text of an underlying text in an unknown language. but is a text in a hitherto unknown medieval North Germanic dialect.
People who enjoy works like THE DA VINCI CODE, PUZZLE PALACE, and Snowden will find this fascinating.
The King's English is less like a dictionary than Modern English Usage; it consists of longer articles on more general topics such as vocabulary, syntax and punctuation, and draws heavily on examples from many sources throughout. One of its sections is a systematic description of the appropriate uses of shall and will. The third and last edition was published in 1931, by which time Modern English Usage had superseded it in popularity.
Because all living languages continually evolve, the book is now considered outdated in some respects; and some of the Fowlers' opinions about correct English usage are at times incorrect with regard to contemporary standards. For example, the Fowlers disapprove of the word concision on the grounds that it had a technical meaning in theology, to which it may well be left; although concision is now a common synonym for conciseness, it is still an ugly word. The Fowlers also criticised the use of standpoint and just how much (as in Just how much more of this can we take?), describing them as undesirable Americanisms, but both are now common in British English. The book nevertheless remains a benchmark for usage. Every wordlover should have a copy.
The COI disregarded that assessment and concluded SCORPION was lost because of the explosion of (a) large charge weight externalto the submarine's pressure hull. That erroneous conclusion which, by default, has become the Navy's explanation for the tragedy, contributed to the conspiracy theory that SCORPION was sunk by a Soviet torpedo.
This book includes six letters sent to the Navy from 2009 to 2011. These letters provide the results of the first reanalysis in 40 yeears of acoustic detections of the loss of SCORPION. This reanalysis confirms the 1970 SAG battery-explosion assessment and provides important new information on the loss of SCORPION.
The author was the lead acoustic analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for 42 years, ending in 2007. ONI did not receive any SCORPION acoustic data until the author provided it in October 2009.
The book includes a prologue signed by 96 members of the Scorpion families asking the Navy to bring forth further information on the causes of the tragedy.
Master the Perspectives, Capabilities and Goals of the World's Major Space Powers
- Global Perspectives on Space Power provides an in-depth look at the strategies and capabilities of the world's leading space powers, including Russia, China, India, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- Examines the legal, political, and technological aspects of space warfare, including counterspace weapons, space situational awareness, precision position, navigation, and timing, communication and electronic intelligence (ELINT), and cyber-space connections.
- Analyzes the opportunities, risks, and challenges of space power, and offers strategies for creating, developing, and protecting space assets.
- Explores the space policies of the world's leading space powers, and examines the use of space weapons such as missiles, lasers, satellites, aerospace drones, and space situational awareness capabilities, as well as the use of ground-based lasers, guardian satellites, and cybersecurity mechanisms.
- Examines the concept of explicit superiority and the need to level the battlefield, as well as the right to self-defense and protection of space assets, and the development of counterspace weapons.
Chapters are written by leading experts on each nation's space program, including Nadia Stoyanova, Dr. Brendan Mulvaney, Dr. Ajey Lele, Anne-Sophie Martin, Michael Unbehauen, Cesare Ciocca, Manuel Moreno Minuto, Sidney N. Nakahodo, Lucas M. Fonseca, Michael Spencer, Dr. Andrew Dowse, and Simon Agass MSc, FRGS.
The book has a scholarly yet accessible tone, with a focus on providing an in-depth analysis of the current state of space warfare and its implications for global security. The book's mood is one of awe and appreciation for the power of space, including the unique characteristics that make it an important warfighting domain.
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of space power and warfare. It provides a comprehensive overview of the strategies, capabilities, and legal considerations of the world's leading space powers. It is an essential resource for anyone looking to understand the future of space power.
During World War II, navies developed camouflage for their ships. Applying it to both vertical and horizontal surfaces, they reduced visibility and confused the identities of their ships to the enemy. Maritime artist Malcolm Wright, author of popular books on British naval camouflage schemes in World War II, now turns his attention to the ships and aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army from 1932 to 1945. Many schemes included in this volume are difficult to find without intensive research, making this a unique and valuable resource. The book covers every ship type from battleship to the smallest auxiliary, including the riverine craft that fought in China, all the ships in the separate fleet operated by the Imperial Japanese Army, and three special bonus pages describing camouflage schemes for selected hard-to-research ships from other navies. The timespan covered actually goes beyond 1932-45 and includes developmental milestones for each ship and class, from the 1914 construction of the battlecruiser KONGO to the 1946-47 repatriation service of the surviving vessels and their subsequent transfer to victorious navies.
At 288 11 x 8.5 hardbound pages with half-inch margins and 9-point type, this book offers almost double the content area of the previous volumes in the series, which were 196 10 x 8 pages each, with a somewhat challenging 7-point font. This expansive and reader-friendly layout allows for numerous full-page spotlight views of important and interesting ships and planes, for a total of 952 images and captions. The durable case laminate jacket and 70-pound premium paper assure a long-lasting and pleasant physical experience.
The captions combine construction, refit and service histories with sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes. Since sadly most pictures of World War II are in black and white, this book is a delight for anyone who wants to visualize the war as it actually occurred, in color. With its unparalled depth of technical detail and breadth of coverage, it is a must-have for students of naval history, the war in the Pacific, wargaming, and ship and aircraft modelling.
The highly readable captions combine construction, refit and service histories with sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes. Since sadly most pictures of World War II are in black and white, this book is a delight for anyone who wants to visualize the war as it actually occurred, in color. With its unparalleled depth of technical detail and breadth of coverage, it is a must-have for students of naval history, the war in the Pacific, wargaming, and ship and aircraft modeling.
The current printing includes fixes to several issues reported by reviewers, including making the ship scales consistent on page 7, cleaning up images on page 49 and 67, increasing image size on page 123, and removing a duplicate paragraph on page 187.
The manual is written by the Office of General Counsel of DoD. Because of limitations on page count, the Preface and Foreword are provided on front and back cover.
Break this code:
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Hint for the reader: patriots and tiki torches FTW. Solution inside.
This famous lecture by William F. Friedman, the father of American cryptography, provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of cryptology during the American Civil War, examining the systems used by both Union and Confederate forces.
Key Points:
Additional Observations:
Overall, the lecture provides a valuable introduction to the fascinating world of Civil War cryptology and offers insights into the evolution of secure communications in warfare.
In March 2020 POLITICO reported that after the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the Obama Administration's National Security Council had prepared a detailed, thorough pandemic playbook that was available to Trump administration officials, who treated it dismissively and did not draw on it during the response to the coronavirus. The leaked 69-page PowerPoint is reproduced in full color in durable hardcover landscape format, a crucial resource for understanding the Trump administration's response to COVID-19.
The Playbook describes itself as follows: a decision-making tool that identifies: (1) questions to ask; (2) agency counterparts to consult for answers to each; and (3) key decisions which may require deliberation through the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-1 process or its successor National Security Council process. This is a document with an optimistic view of its role in the world. It is not clear that policy leaders in any Administration are actually interested in outsourcing their decision-making to a tool developed by a previous admninistration. To the contrary, policy-makers typically place a great deal of emphasis on getting their own people in place to ask the right questions.
The main body of the Playbook is comprised of two major sections, one for international events that have not yet reached the US and one for events with a US locus. For each, a Rubric is provided that is not intended to serve as a comprehensive concept of operations or replace national or pre-existing U.S. Government response structures, but rather to serve as a proposed guide based on existing authorities, guidance, and response frameworks for staff monitoring emerging infectious disease threats and interagency planning and response, should the need arise in the future. The key words are for staff monitoring emerging infectious disease threats... -- in other words, this document was intended for use by staff who are monitoring things, rather than for policy makers who are deciding them.
The Rubrics explicitly spell out key assumptions--for example, on the domestic side that the U.S. Government will use all powers at its disposal to prevent, slow, or mitigate the spread of an emerging infectious disease threat... The drafters did not include any language such as unless it might hurt the stock market. Both Rubrics contain exhaustive lists of important questions and decisions that correspond well with what we know now to have been important in the response to COVID-19.
An Appendix contains several useful resources, including a laundrty list of declarations and mitigation options -- things that the US government or other agencies can declare and do, specifically including pharmaceutical, medical, travel-related and community interventions. Some of the latter will seem remarkably familiar:
a. Voluntary home isolation of the ill and home quarantine of the exposed
b. Dismissal of students from schools
c. Social distancing measures, such as telework
d. Cancellation of large public gatherings; and
e. Widespread use of personal protective devices
A section on Communications envisages the Secretary of HHS as the primary spokesperson. No mention is made of daily 5 pm press conferences with the President.
Readers who enjoy works like THE GREAT INFLUENZA, CONTAGION, and THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN will find this a fascinating look behind the curtain. Also an ideal gift for that no masks relative who just will not read the peer-reviewed science that you patiently email to them
So, then, how can analysts and researchers study and discuss 5GW? Other questions also demand answers. What is the xGW framework, which many theorists use to describe 5GW? What alternatives to the xGW framework exist? What 5GWs have been observed? What are the source documents for the xGW framework? What is the universe of discourse that the xGW framework emerged from? Why bother trying to understand 5GW?
This handbook attempts to provide systematic answers to these questions in several major sections, each of which is written by many contributors. While this handbook records many different voices of 5GW research, it speaks with one voice on the need to understand 5GW, the fifth gradient of warfare.This Kindle version includes all images and figures from the printed book; some images will not display well on grayscale devices.