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Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Alvarez Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347721, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2016
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier di...

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Lavi The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

Golan John W.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347226, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
456 pp., 23x15 cm

The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy, Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufac...

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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Worley Robert D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347202, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
432 pp., 23x15 cm

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the...

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Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars Air Power in Kosovo and Libya

Gregory Robert H.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347318, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2015
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 illus.

On March 24th, 1999, President Clinton announced that the United States, along with NATO allies, had initiated air strikes against the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo. After seventy-eight days of bombing, Milosevic agreed to withdraw h...

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Fall of the Double Eagle The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary

Schindler John R.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347653, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914?and the unprecedented carnage that resulted?effectively doomed the...

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Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Chick Sean Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612347127, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 illus.

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland Campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Dismantling the West Russia's Atlantic Agenda

Bugajski Janusz

ISBN: HB: 9781597972109, Casemate, Potomac Books, October 2009
268 pp., 23x15 cm

As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the deve...

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