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(0)Andrew Cockburn
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"For the first time in our military history, how we wage war is being built around a single strategy: the tracking and elimination of "high value targets"--in other words, assassination by military drone. Kill Chain is the story of how this new paradigm came to be, from WWII to the present; revealing the inner workings of these military technologies; introducing the key figures behind the transformation as well as the people on whom these deadly technologies...
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In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US soldiers are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. In this book, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the intentions behind Washington's martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private...
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Secrets of War volume 35
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The secret US plan for the invasion of Japan was shrouded in secrecy.
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Secrets of War volume 39
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They were the English spies before "James Bond.
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Secrets of War volume 12
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It was the greatest secret of World War Two... the time and place of the D-Day invasion.
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Secrets of War volume 50
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They were five disillusioned young men studying at Cambridge University in the 1930's when they were secretly recruited by Soviet agents.
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Secrets of War volume 14
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Untold stories behind the boldest US military strike since Vietnam - the surprise invasion of Panama in December 1989.
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Secrets of War volume 46
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A look at the secret forces behind the strife throughout the Balkan States.
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Secrets of War volume 36
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In a constant war of survival, the state of Israel commissioned super sleuths for military intelligence, kidnappings, and hostage rescues.
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Secrets of War volume 53
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Japanese tradition made him a god, but Japanese law made him Commander in Chief of the Japanese Armed Forces.
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Secrets of War volume 41
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From rubber tanks and camouflage to booby traps and tactical manoeuvers of deception, the role "trickery" plays on the modern battlefield.
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Secrets of War volume 2
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In World War Two one of Germany's best-kept secrets was the code machine "Enigma.
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Secrets of War volume 32
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From his "grand deception" against Stalin to his spy operations in America, Adolf Hitler shared many secrets with his intelligence masters.
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Secrets of War volume 43
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The roots of China's conflict with Taiwan go back to WWII.
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Secrets of War volume 51
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The soldiers who employ "Psy Ops" use every means available to destroy the will of the enemy to resist.
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Secrets of War volume 45
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Behind the Nazi war machine was a well-crafted secret propaganda campaign aimed at Germans and foreigners.
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Secrets of War volume 17
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From primitive balloons to supersonic spy planes and amazingly sophisticated satellites, they are the ultimate intelligence resource.