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Gaddafi’s Army, Libyan Rebels, Square Off For Showdown
WASHINGTON — Jubilant Libyan rebels racing westward to reoccupy the towns of Ajdabiya, Brega, Bin Jawad and Ras Lanuf are joyfully anticipating the imminent collapse of the Gaddafi regime, but their celebratory gunfire may be premature.
Conversations with History: S. Biddle

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, Stephen Biddle, $16.60

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Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle $27.95 In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic a…

Andrew Jackson and the Bank War (Norton Essays in American History) $14.28 One of the most controversial issues during the presidency of Andrew Jackson centered around the future of the Second Bank of the United States.During the changing economic and social conditions of the 1820′s and 1830′s there was much hostility between the Bank on the one hand, and rising capitalists, urban workers, and farmers on the other. In this context, Jackson aimed to do away with the Bank….

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) $35.00 A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about “strategic” bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on–and gained validity from–widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These…