Christopher Paul: 148 books
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story.
“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary,...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...
Counterinsurgency Scorecard
Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A core finding of previous RAND research on 30 years of insurgencies worldwide was that a conflict's overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices perfectly predicted the ultimate outcome. Using the scorecard approach and...
The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from...
Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
A collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, along with a bank of 76 factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, supplements an analysis of historical and contemporary insurgencies, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations.
From Stalemate to Settlement
Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
A comprehensive review of historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a military stalemate shows that these negotiations followed a similar path that can be generalized into a “master narrative” of seven steps executed in a common sequence. Such a narrative could help guide and assess...
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Use this guide to explore the story of Bud, an orphan during the Great Depression, who journeys to find a musician he believes is his father. This instructional guide for literature features several challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities to work in conjunction with the text to help students...
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Connect students with events from the past by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons with this guide about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism. The Watsons visit their grandma in Birmingham, intending to have their troubled son stay with her...
by Isaac R. III Porche, Christopher Paul, Michael York
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The U.S. Army is studying ways to apply its cyber power and is reconsidering doctrinally defined areas that are integral to cyberspace operations. An examination of network operations, information operations, and several other, more focused areas across the U.S. military found significant overlap and potential boundary progression that could inform the development of future Army doctrine.
The Other Quiet Professionals
Lessons for Future Cyber Forces from the Evolution of Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
With the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command, the cyber force is gaining visibility and authority, but challenges remain, particularly in the areas of acquisition and personnel recruitment and career progression. A review of commonalities, similarities, and differences between the still-nascent U.S....
Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Insurgency is the most prevalent form of armed conflict and the subject of countless studies, yet the U.S. military has only recently begun to review doctrine and training in this area. An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals, for example, that good...
Enlisting Madison Avenue
The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Virtually every action, message, and decision of a military force shapes the opinions of an indigenous population: strategic communication, treatment of civilians at vehicle checkpoints, and the accuracy or inaccuracy of aerial bombardment. Themes of U.S. goodwill mean little if its actions convey...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case from history, Mexico stands to benefit from historical lessons...
by Paul CHRISTOPHER
Language: French
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Vous aimez Dan Brown ?
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Vous allez adorer Paul Christopher !
À la mort de son oncle, Peter Holliday, professeur d'histoire à l'académie militaire de West Point, hérite d'une épée médiévale, retrouvée après la guerre à Berchtesgaden, dans le fameux " nid d'aigle...