Progressive Management: 3249 books

This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is an superb review of the incredible launch facilities, including Launch Complex 39, built for the Apollo moon landing program in the 1960s at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The preface...

This Air Force book presents the many interesting stories of a McDonnell Aircraft engineer on everything from aeronautical engineering to manned spacecraft. From the Foreword: Rarely is a reader exposed to such an extraordinary, multi-faceted presentation of aerospace technology as Bob Brulle narrates...

This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the C-5 cargo airplane. The success of the C-5 transport aircraft is underscored by the performance of the fleet as an operational system and its heavy...

This official Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a reproduction of the NextGen Implementation Plan, which provides an overview of the FAA's ongoing transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. The Plan...

This unique book provides a detailed chronology and analysis of the intelligence failures and successes of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author, Mr. Kenneth Absher, contends that, when our national security is at stake, the United States should not hesitate to undertake risky intelligence collection...

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers logistics operations. Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 4, Logistics, describes the theory and philosophy of military logistics as practiced by the United States Marine...

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual provides guidance to individual Marines (private through general officer) and their dependents on terrorism and its effects. This reference publication gives an overview of terrorism, explains...

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual is to be used as a tool to help ensure that the values of the Corps continue to be reinforced and sustained in all Marines after being formally instilled in entry level training. This document...

This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post–Cold War, post–9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Accomplishing the space changes needed in the future requires a major national security (MNS) change. The term MNS change is coined in this thesis to define a change that requires multiple...

This significant historical volume was produced by the Center of Military History as part of its special studies on the War of American Independence (the Revolution). This book deals with the period when the Medical Department existed only as a wartime expedient and concludes with the passage in April...

These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in the Ukraine, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...

This unique Saturn V Flight Manual, written for the astronauts flying the mammoth Apollo moon rocket, has fascinating information about flight systems, events, and crew interactions. This document, produced for the Apollo 8 first manned Saturn V mission, has a special level of extraordinary technical...

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual provides the tactics, techniques, and procedures of Marine Corps close combat. Today's Marines operate within a continuum of force where conflict may change from low intensity to high...