Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome, Tripathi, Deepak
Автор: Lebovic James H. Название: Planning to Fail: The Us Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan ISBN: 0190935324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190935320 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: ITIL(R) Intermediate Release, Control and Validation - 4 daysThe four courses in Service Capability is aimed at students who need deep knowledge of the processes and the roles of ITIL. Service Lifecycle covered in the course but the primary focus is on processes, functions, roles and activities of its application and use by lifecycle. The courses within the Service Capability is role-based modules, each with a separate certification. Each course includes a grouping of processes and roles within ITIL is intended to give participants a specific knowledge of the practice and application related to the daily work.You`ll learn You get a deeper understanding of the part of the ITIL framework which deals with testing, validation and deployment of services. The course is aimed primarily at people working actively to plan and execute changes in IT services. You get a deeper understanding of the interaction between the requirements definition, testing and deployment as well as the importance of having a well functioning configuration management.Target groupThe target group of the ITIL Expert Qualification: Release, Control and Validation is:¢ Individuals who have attained the ITIL Foundation certificate in Service Management and who wish to advance to higher level ITIL certifications.¢ Individuals who require a deep understanding of ITIL Certificate in Release, Control and Validation processes and how it may be used to enhance the quality of IT service support within an organization.¢ IT professionals that are working within an organization that has adopted and adapted ITIL who need to be informed about and thereafter contribute to an ongoing service improvement programme¢ Operational staff involved in Change Management, Release and Deployment Management, Service Validation and Testing, Service Asset and Configuration Management, Request Fulfilment, Service Evaluation and Knowledge Management, who wish to enhance their role-based capabilities.This may include but is not limited to, IT professionals, business managers and business process owners.ExamThe examination is closed book and made up of multiple choice questions based on a scenario. Students will be allowed 120 minutes to answer the questions. You need at least 70% (28/40 points) to pass.PrerequisitesCandidates wishing to pass the exam for this qualification must already hold the ITIL Foundation Certificate.
Описание: Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons.
Описание: The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence, covert operations and failed intelligence. The Secret War in Afghanistan undertakes a full analysis of recently declassified intelligence archives in order to asses Anglo-American secret intelligence and diplomacy relating to the invasion of Afghanistan and unveil the Cold War realities behind the rhetoric. Rooted at every turn in close examination of the primary evidence, it outlines the secret operations of the CIA, MI6 and the KGB, and the full extent of the aid and intelligence from the West which armed and trained the Afghan fighters.Drawing from US, UK and Russian archives, Panagiotis Dimitrakis analyses the Chinese arms deals with the CIA, the multiple recorded intelligence failures of KGB intelligence and secret letters from the office of Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter. In so doing, this study brings a new scholarly perspective to some of the most controversial events of Cold War history. Dimitrakis also outlines the full extent of China's involvement in arming the Mujahedeen, which led to the PRC effectively fighting the Soviet Union by proxy. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of the Cold War, American History and the Modern Middle East.
Автор: Egel, Daniel Ries, Charles P. Connable, Ben Helmus, Todd C. Robinson, Eric Baruffi, Isaac Bradley, Melissa A. Card, Kurt Loa, Kathleen Mann, Sean Название: Investing in the Fight ISBN: 0833096699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780833096692 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bob Sjogren and Gerald Robison reflect on the God-given traits of cats ("you exist to serve me") and dogs ("I exist to serve you"), and point out the same dichotomy at work in the theological attitudes of many Christians. Unlike the house pet, however, human beings are capable of rethinking their relationship with the Master.
Автор: Higashi Название: Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding ISBN: 1138850403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138850408 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The objective of this book is to develop an understanding of the mechanisms for constructing-or eroding-the legitimacy of newly created governments in post-conflict peacebuilding environments.
Описание: This book explains why and how the U.S. and NATO military gains have not produced the expected political victory, and calls for rethinking U.S. policy toward promoting Afghanistan as a regional economic hub in Southwest and Central Asia as it fits within the broader national security interest of the regional states.
Автор: Mendelson, Sarah E. Название: Changing course ISBN: 0691632251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691632254 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 11880.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where "misfit" ideas--ones that severely challenged the status quo--were turned into policies. She draws on firsthand interviews with those who ran Soviet foreign policy and the war in Afghanistan and on recently declassified material from Soviet archives to show that both ideas and political strategies were needed to make reform happen.
Focusing on the Soviet decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, Mendelson details the strategies used by the Gorbachev coalition to shift the internal balance of power in favor of constituencies pushing new ideas--mutual security, for example--while undermining the power of old constituencies resistant to change. The interactive dynamic between ideas and politics that she identifies in the case of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is fundamental to understanding other shifts in Soviet foreign policy and the end of the Cold War. Her exclusive interviews with the foreign policy elite also offer a unique glimpse of the inner workings of the former Soviet power structure.
Originally published in 1998.
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Автор: Whitlock Craig, The Washington Post Название: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War ISBN: 1982159006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982159009 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 4138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public about the longest war in American history.
Описание: This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan--to name only those countries dealt with in this book. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.
Описание: Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country`s foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and p
Автор: Giustozzi Antonio Название: Missionaries of Modernity ISBN: 1849044805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849044806 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18772.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Описание: This is a collective volume on Soviet-American relations with the three rimland states of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The contributors argue that what happens in these three states would ultimately affect the states in the Gulf and the Middle East.
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