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Ten true talesZullo, Allan.
Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1045 ZULJones, Seth G.
Summary: "Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 JONAlexander, Chris
Contents: Treading lightly. Price of entry -- Friend for a season -- Palace rules -- Secret heart -- Home front ; Hanging fire. Trampled vintage -- New colonialists -- Western approaches -- Inner light ; Bolder strokes. Talent's table -- Dance of war -- Lost arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 ALESummary: Soon after taking office in 2009, President Obama ordered an additional 17,000 troops and another 30,000 at year's end in the hopes of stanching a rapidly deteriorating situation. Has the surge failed, or does it need time to take its course? Panelists debate the consequences of U.S. withdrawal, the degree of progress, and the chances of success of counterinsurgency. They debate whether the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Rashid, Ahmed.
Summary: Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.05 RASZullo, Allan.
Summary: Five times throughout a fierce firefight, Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya spots an injured comrade in the street. And five times Scott disregards his own safety and rushes out into the open, braving enemy fire to rescue each wounded Marine. Staff Sergeant Chad Malmberg and his small band of soldiers are outnumbered ten to one against well-armed insurgents and they're running out of ammo....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.7 ZULSummary: The U.S. Army Reserves have sent 155,700 deployments to Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. Yet rarely is there an opportunity to see the personal effects inside the homes and lives immediately following a “call to duty.” Kansas to Kandahar, a part of the PBS America at a Crossroads series, is an up-close look at the physical and emotional challenges of these citizen soldiers who are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Coll, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLMercieca, Jennifer R.
Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020