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Before The First Shots Are Fired: How American Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield
by Zinni, Tony ( General)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1137279389
- ISBN 13
- 9781137279385
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ( 2014 ). First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, 246 pages, blue boards; autographed sticker on top panel of dj ( not clipped, but unpriced, but apparently no book club copies were issued).
Signed by Zinni on the half-title. Drawing on his vast experience, from combat in Vietnam to peacekeeping in Somalia, to war games in Washington, DC and negotiations with former rebels in the Philippines, retired four-star General Tony Zinni argues that we have a lot of work to do to make the process of going to waror notmore clear-eyed and ultimately successful. He examines the relationship between the executive and the military (including the difference between passive and engaged presidents); the failures of the Joint Chief of Staff; the challenges of working with the UN, coalition forces, and NATO; the difference between young, on the ground officers and less savvy senior leaders; the role of special forces and drone warfare; and the difficult choices that need to be made to create tomorrows military.
Signed by Zinni on the half-title. Drawing on his vast experience, from combat in Vietnam to peacekeeping in Somalia, to war games in Washington, DC and negotiations with former rebels in the Philippines, retired four-star General Tony Zinni argues that we have a lot of work to do to make the process of going to waror notmore clear-eyed and ultimately successful. He examines the relationship between the executive and the military (including the difference between passive and engaged presidents); the failures of the Joint Chief of Staff; the challenges of working with the UN, coalition forces, and NATO; the difference between young, on the ground officers and less savvy senior leaders; the role of special forces and drone warfare; and the difficult choices that need to be made to create tomorrows military.
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- Seller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5154
- Title
- Before The First Shots Are Fired
- Author
- Zinni, Tony ( General)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 1137279389
- ISBN 13
- 9781137279385
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 2014 )
- Keywords
- military policy, mlitary industrial complex, strategy, politics, Mideast, Middle east, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Tony Zinni,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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