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Oxford University Press The Invisible Weapon
Book SynopsisA vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics, tools for rival interests, and weapons of war. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Headrick illuminates the political aspects of information technology, showing how in both World Wars, the use of radio led to a shadowy war of disinformation, cryptography, and communications intelligence, with decisive consequences.Trade ReviewA mine of useful information for communication researchers....The data presented here represent a major contribution to the field and will be of immense value to scholars interested in the historical linkages between mass media and communication technology .A refreshing-and relativizing-historical perspective. * Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsContents ; 1 Telecommunications and International Relations ; Characteristics of Electrical Communications ; Telecommunications and World History ; International Telecommunications as a Field of Study ; 2 New Technology ; Origins of the Telegraph ; International Telegraphic Cooperation ; The First Submarine Telegraph Cables ; The Mediterranean Cables ; The First Atlantic Cables ; The Red Sea Cable ; Telegraphs to India ; Conclusion ; 3 The Expansion of the World Cable Network, 1866-1895 ; The Technology of Cables ; The Atlantic Cables ; The Cable Companies ; Cables to India and Australia ; Cable Rivalries in the West Indies and Latin America ; Across Russia to Japan ; Commercial Codes and the International Telegraph Union ; Conclusion ; 4 Telegraphy and Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century ; The Telegraph in India ; The Telegraph in Indochina ; Cables and News in the French West Indies ; The Telegraph in China ; The East African Cables ; The West African Cables ; Cables and Colonial Control ; Conclusion ; 5 Crisis at the Turn of the Century, 1895-1901 ; Telegraphy and Diplomacy ; British Cable Strategy to 1898 ; Telegraphic Delays and French Imperialism ; Germany and the Azores Affair ; The Spanish-American War ; The Fashoda Incident ; The British Strategic Cable Report of 1898 ; The Boer War ; 6 The Great Powers and the Cable Crisis, 1900-1913 ; The British Pacific Cable and the "All-Red" Routes ; British Cable Strategy, 1902-1914 ; The American Cables ; France and the Cable Crisis ; Germany and the Cable Crisis ; Conclusion ; 7 The Beginnings of Radio, 1895-1914 ; Marconi and the Birth of Wireless Telegraphy ; The Marconi Monopoly and the Reaction of the Powers ; Technological Change and Commercial Rivalries ; The U.S. Navy and Radio to 1908 ; The Continuous Ware, 1908-1914 ; French Colonial Wireless ; German Long-Distance and Colonial Radio ; The British Imperial Wireless Chain ; Conclusion ; 8 Cables and Radio in World War I ; The Jitters of July 1914 ; Allied Attacks on German Communications ; German Attacks on Allied Communications ; Allied Communications during the War ; Censorship ; Propaganda ; Conclusion ; 9 Communications Intelligence in World War I ; Government Cryptology before 1914 ; Communications Intelligence on Land ; British Naval Interception and Direction-Finding ; German Codes and British Cryptanalysis in 1914 ; British Naval Intelligence, 1915-1916 ; The U-Boat War, 1917-1918 ; German Communications Intelligence ; The Zimmerman Telegram ; 10 Conflicts and Settlements, 1919-1923 ; The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ; The Washington Conferences of 1920-1922 ; The Struggle over Cables to Latin America ; The Radio Corporation of America ; British Radio, 1919~1924 ; German and French Radio to 1924 ; Radio in Latin America and China ; Conclusion ; 11 Technological Upheavals and Commercial Rivalries, 1924-1939 ; The Distribution of Cables in the World in 1923 ; Cable Technology in the 1920s ; The New Cables, 1924-1929 ; ITT and the Telephones ; The British Reaction ; French Colonial Shortwave ; The International Impact of Shortwave ; The British Communications Merger ; Responses to the British Merger ; The British Dilemma: Profits versus Security ; Conclusion ; 12 Communications Intelligence in World War II ; British and German Communications Intelligence to 1936 ; Cipher Machines ; The Approach of War, 1936-1939 ; The Outbreak of War, 1939-1940 ; British Communications Intelligence in Wartime ; German Communications Intelligence in Wartime ; The Battles of Britain and North Africa ; German Spies and Allied Radio Deception ; Funkspiele, Resistance, and the Normandy Landing ; The Soviet Rings ; Conclusion ; 13 The War at Sea ; The Cable War ; Communications and Naval Warfare in the Atlantic ; The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1944 ; American Communications Intelligence before Pearl Harbor ; From Pearl Harbor to Midway ; After Midway ; 14 The Changing of the Guard ; The American Expansion ; Strategic Cables to North Africa and Europe ; The Retreat of Britain ; The Organization of Postwar Communications ; Conclusion ; 15 Telecommunications, Information, and Security ; Bibliography Essay ; Books on Submarine Telegraph Cables ; Books on Radio and Telecommunications ; Communications Intelligence ; Primary Sources ; Index
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Crown Confront and Conceal Obamas Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Book SynopsisThis astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph. —Foreign Affairs President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power, including our most sophisticated—and still unacknowledged—arsenal of cyberweapons, aimed at Iran's nuclear program. Washington and the world were rocked by Confront and Conceal, which goes deep into the Situation Room as Obama questions whether this new weapon can slow Iran and avoid a war—or whether it will create blowback, as the Iranians and others retaliate with cyberattacks on the United States. It describes how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan, and how Obama's early idealism about fighting a war of
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Commissions of Inquiry and National Security
Book SynopsisThis text presents a comparative, international study of commissions of inquiry that have been convened in response to extraordinary failures and scandals.In recent years, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.Table of Contents1 Toward the Comparative Study of National Security Commissions of Inquiry Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian 2 Influence without Power: Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community Andrew O'Neil 3 Public Inquiries in Canada: Making Espionage, Organizational Culture, Wrongdoing, and Mass Murder More Transparent Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker 4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain Mark Phythian 5 Inquiring into Dirty Wars: A "Huge Smokescreen of Humbug"? Peter Gill 6 The Role of Judges Ian Leigh 7 The Politics of U.S. National Security Commissions Kenneth Kitts 8 Investigative Oversight of the American Intelligence Community: Promise and Performance Glenn Hastedt 9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community Shlomo Shpiro 10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain Antonio M. Díaz Fernández 11 Cover Up or Dig Up? Inquiries into Security Services in Welfare States: The Cases of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Janne Flyghed 12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africa's Intelligence History 1960–2005 Kevin A. O'Brien 13 Commissions of Inquiry into National Security and Defense Affairs in the Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile José Manuel Ugarte 14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues Aidan Wills 15 The United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Inquiry Reid Morden 16 Inside a National Security Inquiry: The Aspin-Brown Commission at Work Loch K. Johnson Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors
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Random House Publishing Group SURVIVAL Stop Living in Fear
Book SynopsisSafe, common-sense advice for dealing with every kind of crime—what to do, what to say, how to act, to keep a dangerous situation under controlDo you know• What to do if someone points a gun at you?• The best way to create a “safe harbor” in your home?• The safest way to escape a sidewalk attack?• How to deal with a surprise assault in your car?• The way to feel totally safe in a isolated laundry room?• And many other safe, common sense strategies for avoiding crime?After forty years of investigating over one thousand cases, Hugh C. McDonald knows what crime victims should have—and could have—done to avoid tragedy. His safe, common sense strategies for dealing with every kind of crime will help you learn in advance what to do if it happens to you.
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Spinebill Press Falsehood in Wartime
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University of Hawai'i Press The Gates of Power Monks Courtiers and Warriors in Premodern Japan
Book SynopsisAn examination of the political influences of temples in pre-modern Japan. It uses a range of sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism and capital rather than its cause. The analysis brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas and politics.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Thought War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompletely individual and very interesting.... Kushner's book is, I think, the first to treat propaganda as a profession in wartime Japan. He follows it through its various stages and is particularly interested in its popular acceptance - wartime comedy, variety shows, how entertainers sought to bolster their careers by adopting the prewar message, which then filtered down into society and took hold. Using almost entirely primary materials, which have not before been translated, Barak re-creates the wartime world in which propaganda was the truth. In so doing, he has given us an eminently readable account of an unknown aspect of the war and has defined our understanding of it." — Japan Times"[The Thought War] reveals a good deal more about Japan at war than has been available heretofore in Western languages.... This soundly researched book highlights the multiple, often ill-coordinated sources of Japan's wartime propaganda.... [It] should help considerably in advancing the urgent project of defining and assessing responsibility, not only for Japan but for all combatants, and not only for World War II but for all conflicts and modes of political violence." — Journal of Japanese Studies
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El Gato Tuerto, Ediciones, Div of Intelinet Psychological Warfare and the New World Order The Secret War Against the American People
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Lulu Press Sound The Alarm A Warning to the British Nations 6 The AK Chesterton Trust Reprint Series
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St Martin's Press Gideons Spies
Book SynopsisIn the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth exceeds all the fantasies about the Mossad. Revised and updated for 2015, this new edition includes: - Mossad''s secret meeting in 2013 with Saudi Arabia''s intelligence chief to plan for Israel to use Saudi to attack Iran should the Geneva discussion fail to be honored by Iran.- The attack on Iraq''s nuclear reactor that will be the flight path to an attack on Iran''s nuclear facilities.- Mossad''s new cyber-war unit preparing to launch its own pre-emptive strike.- Why Mossad''s former director, Meir Dagan, has spoken out against an attack on Iran.- Mossad agents who operate in the Dark Side of the internet to track terrorists.- Mossad''s drone and its first killing.- Mossad''s role in the defense of Israel''s Embassy in Cairo during the Arab Spring.-
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St. Martins Press-3PL Barefoot Lawyer A Blind Mans Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
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Lulu Press Non SEI Il Mio Giudice
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Advertising and Propaganda in World War II Cultural Identity and the Blitz Spirit
Book SynopsisDavid Clampin is Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He completed his PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Place of Commercial Advertising in Wartime Britain 2. War Begins at Home 3. Instruction and Direction 4. Fighting the War via Consumption 5. Gender Identities through the War 6. Defining the Postwar World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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