Tet!, Oberdorfer, Don (distinguished Journalist In Residence, Johns Hopkins University)
Автор: Jake Blood Название: The Tet Effect: Intelligence and the Public Perception of War ISBN: 041565226X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415652261 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines intelligence`s role in shaping America`s perception of the Vietnam war and looks closely at the intelligence leadership and decision process in Vietnam.
Автор: Edward Corlew Название: Vietnam by Chinook: A CH-47 Crew Chief During the Tet Offensive ISBN: 1476684170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476684178 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Well armed and capable of deploying platoon-sized infantry units, the tandem-rotored Chinook and it`s crew were a formidable weapon in jungle warfare. Large and lightly armored, they also presented easy targets. This memoir relates missions over landing zones beset with hidden enemy positions, the author`s return home and his reflection on the war.
"Along the Way" is a collection of bright uplifting stories about wartime service during one of the most negative and controversial periods in American history.
Soldiers did not commit the U.S. military to war in Vietnam. However, young Americans bore the brunt of that commitment on both foreign battlefields and in their own hometowns when they returned. Not only did the soldiers fight battles against an enemy who hated them, but upon returning home they often faced countrymen who seemed to hate them as well.
Few Americans who served in Southeast Asia were pot smoking, cursing, killing machines, as they have too often been portrayed. Most were warm and sensitive sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers who had traveled far from their homes to help a country in its fight for freedom.
The great majority of the more than three million men and women who spent time in Vietnam were decent people who either felt they were fulfilling their patriotic duty or simply believed they were serving their country. Most of them were young, either still in or scarcely out of their teens when they were asked to shoulder heavy responsibility and face life-and-death situations, some of them on a daily basis.
"Along the Way" is a firsthand account of the many acts of selfless heroism and courage witnessed a young Special Forces (Green Beret) military adviser during his tour of duty in a surprisingly picturesque Southeast Asian nation.
These are stories that others have said made them proud to be an American.
Автор: Wirtz James J. Название: TET Offensive ISBN: 0801482097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801482090 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in American history, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently declassified U.S. sources, he is able to trace the strategy and unfolding of the Tet campaign as well as the U.S. response.
Описание: This is one of the most important books ever published in the West on Japanese culture."" – Times Literary Supplement""In both scope and sophistication of argument presented, Najita's Visions of Virtue ranks among the best books to appear in recent years in the field of Japanese intellectual history."" – Journal of Asian Studies
Автор: Tetsuya Sakai Название: Laboratory Experiments in Information Retrieval ISBN: 9811345813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811345814 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering aspects from principles and limitations of statistical significance tests to topic set size design and power analysis, this book guides readers to statistically well-designed experiments. Although classical statistical significance tests are to some extent useful in information retrieval (IR) evaluation, they can harm research unless they are used appropriately with the right sample sizes and statistical power and unless the test results are reported properly. The first half of the book is mainly targeted at undergraduate students, and the second half is suitable for graduate students and researchers who regularly conduct laboratory experiments in IR, natural language processing, recommendations, and related fields.Chapters 1–5 review parametric significance tests for comparing system means, namely, t-tests and ANOVAs, and show how easily they can be conducted using Microsoft Excel or R. These chapters also discuss a few multiple comparison procedures for researchers who are interested in comparing every system pair, including a randomised version of Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference test. The chapters then deal with known limitations of classical significance testing and provide practical guidelines for reporting research results regarding comparison of means. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss statistical power. Chapter 6 introduces topic set size design to enable test collection builders to determine an appropriate number of topics to create. Readers can easily use the author’s Excel tools for topic set size design based on the paired and two-sample t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and confidence intervals. Chapter 7 describes power-analysis-based methods for determining an appropriate sample size for a new experiment based on a similar experiment done in the past, detailing how to utilize the author’s R tools for power analysis and how to interpret the results. Case studies from IR for both Excel-based topic set size design and R-based power analysis are also provided.
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