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Benjamin King puts a new twist on the old mystery of Lincoln's
death. Deep within the plot is the manipulative and corrosive
character Anderson. The same man who outwitted the Confederates in
King's first novel, A Bullet for Stonewall, is back to execute the
most history-altering plan of his career. King has done extensive
research on the assassination as well as the years that followed.
In his work, he looked at how political plans changed following
Lincoln's death. The guiding factor of his sleuthing was to
determine who seemed to benefit from the aftermath. And thus he
found the premise for this, his second novel. A group of young Wall
Street entrepreneurs, including soon-to-be-tycoon J. P. Morgan,
analyze the impact of the end of the war. They are angered by
Lincoln's plan to invest in rebuilding the South. They search for a
way to guarantee that the government will, instead, invest in their
economic interests in the West. That search leads them to Anderson,
the assassin with a money-back guarantee. Under numerous guises, he
begins to assemble a plot to frame the South for the death of the
president. Befriending Booth, Anderson inspires the actor to take
control of his Southern sympathies and put actions behind his
feelings. Meanwhile, he also infiltrates a Confederate spy ring,
adding more names to the list of scapegoats he will leave behind.
Relying heavily on historical accuracies, A Bullet for Lincoln
minimizes its fictional medium, making Anderson and his task highly
believable. The pressure of a federal agent closing in for his own
kill heightens the challenge and suspense for Anderson. He faces
unparalleled dangers as he tries to maintain his secret identity
and still pull off the greatest coup in the nation's history.
This new edition of Victory Starts Here is a short history of the
US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) as it is completing
four decades of organizational existence. Established in July 1973
to solve the cumbersome command and control issues of the old US
Continental Army Command (CONARC), TRADOC's mission was to oversee
Army schools, training, doctrine, and combat developments. Through
time those missions have evolved, and TRADOC also has become
responsible for preparing the Army for war and functioning as the
Army's architect of the future. General William E. DePuy, TRADOC's
first commander, understood that the Army required sound training,
coherent organization, modem weapon systems, and relevant doctrine.
His successors built on that foundation and addressed the need for
future planning. Readers will learn that TRADOC's story is
generally one of success. Still, as this monograph is published in
spring 2013, the full effects of about a dozen years of conflict in
Southwest Asia as part of the Global War on Terrorism, the 2005
Base Realignment and Closure effort that largely concluded in 2011,
and now the fiscal uncertainty caused by the budgetary process
known colloquially as sequestration altogether are presenting
TRADOC with a set of postwar'' challenges that bear useful
comparison to those the nation and the Army faced when the command
was established in the wake of Vietnam. Where these trials will
take TRADOC in the years to come cannot, of course, be determined
with certainty right now. Assuming that the past is a reliable
guide to the future (which is one of the compelling justifications
for the study of history in the first place), then the Army is
likely to continue to need an organization to train and educate
Soldiers, to formulate and promulgate doctrine, to devise and
determine weapons and organizations, and to puzzle out tomorrow's
Army. TRADOC's future survival, therefore, seems to be imperative
to a successful US Army. This latest version of Victory Starts Here
provides an overview of 40 years of TRADOC's service to the Army
and the nation.
Victory Starts Here is the history of the US Army Training and
Doctrine Command's (TRADOC's) 35 years as the architect of the
Army's future. During the first years of the 21st century,
"Transformation" became a new buzzword for the Army changing from
the Cold War era to a new conti-nental United States (CONUS) based
rapidly deployable Army. TRADOC, however, has been transforming the
Army and itself since its establishment in July 1973. Created to
solve the cumbersome command and control prob-lems of the
Continental Army Command (CONARC), TRADOC's mis-sion charter was to
oversee Army schools, training, doctrine, and combat developments.
Through time those missions evolved and TRADOC also became
responsible for preparing the Army for war and being the Army's
"architect of the future." TRADOC's first commander, General
William E. DePuy, understood that the Army required sound training,
coherent orga-nization, modern weapons systems, and relevant
doctrine. His successors built on that foundation and addressed the
need for future planning. This brief history provides an overview
of the first 35 years of TRADOC's service to the Army and to the
nation. Combat Studies Institute.
An in-depth account of Hitler's V-Weapons, the devastation they
caused, and the massive Allied countermeasures taken to destroy
them
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