Tag: Civilian

Free Download Alice Hunt Friend, "Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy"
English | ISBN: 150362918X | 2024 | 242 pages | EPUB | 632 KB
The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important. Today, civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurring line between war and competition and the speed of machine decision-making on the battlefield. Moreover, the legitimacy of political leaders and civil servants has been undermined by a succession of foreign policy failures and by imbalances of public faith in the military on the one hand and disapproval of civilian institutions on the other. A central question emerges: What does appropriate and effective civilian control of the military look like? Combining scholarly expertise and firsthand civilian experience in the Department of Defense, Friend argues that civilians combine authoritative status, institutional functions, and political expertise to ensure that democratic preferences over the use of force prevail. Friend focuses on the ways political context shapes whether and how civilian controllers-the civilians in professional and institutional positions with the responsibility for defense matters-exercise control over the military and each other.

Free Download Rachel Galvin, "News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945"
English | ISBN: 0190623926 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war, but still they felt they did not have authority to write about what they had not experienced firsthand. Consequently, these writers developed a wartime poetics engaging with both classical rhetoric and the daily news in texts that encourage readers to take critical distance from war culture.

Free Download Jim Winchester – Helicopters: Military, Civilian and Rescue Rotorcraft
Grange Books Ltd | 2005 | ISBN: 1840138122 | English | 258 pages | PDF | 144.62 MB
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Free Download Britain’s Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins During the Second World War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFRHSBMY | 2023 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Andrew Chatterton
Narrator: Mike Cooper
The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centered on "Dad’s Army"-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different. Top-secret, highly trained civilian volunteers were being recruited as early as the summer of 1940. Had the Germans attempted an invasion they would have been countered by saboteurs and guerrilla fighters emerging from secret bunkers, and monitored by swathes of spies and observers who would have passed details on via runners, wireless operators, and ATS women in disguised bunkers. Alongside these secret forces, the Home Guard were also setting up their own "guerrilla groups," and SIS (MI6) were setting up post-occupation groups of civilians to act as sabotage cells, wireless operators, and assassins had the Nazis taken control of the country.