Armed with Abundance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armed with Abundance write by Meredith H. Lair. This book was released on 2011. Armed with Abundance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war
Armed with Abundance
Armed with Abundance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armed with Abundance write by Meredith H. Lair. This book was released on 2011-11-28. Armed with Abundance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other "comforts" share the frame with combat. To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers--and, by extension, the American public--from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier and certainly more palatable. The result was dozens of overbuilt bases in South Vietnam that grew more elaborate as the war dragged on. Relying on memoirs, military documents, and G.I. newspapers, Lair finds that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments. Abundance quarantined the U.S. occupation force from the impoverished people it ostensibly had come to liberate, undermining efforts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" and burdening veterans with disappointment that their wartime service did not measure up to public expectations. With an epilogue that finds a similar paradigm at work in Iraq, Armed with Abundance offers a unique and provocative perspective on modern American warfare.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War write by Paul Scharre. This book was released on 2018-04-24. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Twilight of Abundance
Twilight of Abundance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight of Abundance write by David Archibald. This book was released on 2014-03-24. Twilight of Abundance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over—prepare for the twilight of abundance.
Bringing God to Men
Bringing God to Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bringing God to Men write by Jacqueline E. Whitt. This book was released on 2014-02-17. Bringing God to Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the second half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. Broad-based and ecumenical in the World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally conservative and evangelical. Before and after the Vietnam War, the chaplaincy tended to mirror broader social, political, military, and religious trends. During the Vietnam War, however, chaplains' experiences and interpretations of war placed them on the margins of both military and religious cultures. Because chaplains lived and worked amid many communities--religious and secular, military and civilian, denominational and ecumenical--they often found themselves mediating heated struggles over the conflict, on the home front as well as on the front lines. In this benchmark study, Jacqueline Whitt foregrounds the voices of chaplains themselves to explore how those serving in Vietnam acted as vital links between diverse communities, working personally and publicly to reconcile apparent tensions between their various constituencies. Whitt also offers a unique perspective on the realities of religious practice in the war's foxholes and firebases, as chaplains ministered with a focus on soldiers' shared experiences rather than traditional theologies.
