LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael j forsyth

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  • The White House and Pentagon at Odds
    Michael J. Forsyth
    The ability of leaders to develop sound national security policy and strategy has suffered immensely since the Vietnam War. A primary reason for this downward trend is that civil-military relations have been generally poor since that time. This book theorizes that the quality of national security policy and strategy is directly proportional to the tenor of US civil-military ...
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    72,00 €

  • A Year in Command in Afghanistan
    Michael J Forsyth / Michael J. Forsyth
    During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt. Col. Michael J. Forsyth kept a daily journal. In it he candidly wrote about his daily interactions with the Afghan government, citizens, security forces, and his intermittent conflict with the enemy. As the deployment progressed, the journal reveals that his initial expectations for peace in Afghanistan...
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    34,84 €

  • The Great Missouri Raid
    Michael J. Forsyth
    In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army’s Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South’s last inva...
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    58,77 €

  • The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War
    Michael J. Forsyth
    The Union Army’s Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronged attack aimed at gaining control of Shreveport, Louisiana. It lasted until May 22, 1864, when, after suffering significant casualties, the Union army retreated to Simmesport, Louisiana. The campaign was an attempt to prevent Confederate alliance with the French in Mexico, deny supplies to Confeder...
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    43,00 €

  • The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War
    Michael J. Forsyth
    The Confederacy had a great opportunity to turn the Civil War in its favor in 1864, but squandered this chance when it failed to finish off a Union army cornered in Louisiana because of concerns about another Union army coming south from Arkansas. The Confederates were so confused that they could not agree on a course of action to contend with both threats, thus the Union of...
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    43,94 €