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Superior defense plans fuse political, economic, military,
technological, and sociological power in ways that cover state
interests, while conserving resources to the greatest prudent
extent. Poor products can increase costs without reducing risks,
because forces and funds that support slipshod schemes often fail
to furnish security. This critical appraisal of the U.5. defense
planning system seeks to serve a five-fold purpose: set assessment
standards, appraise U.S. planning in principle, appraise U.5.
planning in practice, identify U.S. planning problems and present
optional courses of corrective action. The study shows how domestic
and foreign policy inputs from the White House, National 5ecurity
Council, and State Department affect defense planning.
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial
law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a
state of exception from law, martial law was understood and
practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a vital
component of both England's domestic and imperial legal order. It
was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue
Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish
spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on
Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins
reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and
creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate
new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that
legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and
political histories of early modern England and its empire.
HR Management in the Forensic Science Laboratory: A 21st Century
Approach to Effective Crime Lab Leadership introduces the
profession of forensic science to human resource management, and
vice versa. The book includes principles of HR management that
apply most readily, and most critically, to the practice of
forensic science, such as laboratory operations, staffing and
assignments, laboratory relations and high impact leadership. A
companion website hosts workshop PowerPoint slides, a forensic HR
newsletter and other important HR strategies to assist the reader.
A fully illustrated guide to 25 paper airplane designs (using just
single sheets of paper--no glue, no cutting), including a new
category of airplanes that will stay airborne indefinitely.
A major American news magazine in the spring of 1997 included an
article about the effects of new technology on national defense. It
observed that, "In future wars, knowledge may be more important
than terrain," but geography still exerts enormous influence on
military operations, war, and security as it has throughout
history.
A collection of easy-to-fold paper airplane designs and innovative
theories of flight, including the author's Guinness World
Record-breaking airplane. Features 16 tear-out model planes.
Will YOU be the next to break the WORLD RECORD?
Anything is possible with The New World Champion Paper Airplane
Book, the newest collection of designs and theories of flight from
John M. Collins, the man behind the Guinness World Record-breaking
distance plane. Featuring twenty-two unique airplane designs with
step-by-step instructional photos, plus tear-out models printed on
regulation-weight paper stock, this entertaining and informative
guide promises hours of flying fun.
Take your paper airplane-making to the next level with features
such as:
- Instructions for folding "Suzanne," the plane that shattered
the previous world record by flying an unprecedented 226 feet,
10 inches, and garnered more than three million views on YouTube
- Four "Follow Foil" aircraft that can stay aloft for minutes
at a time
- A pioneering cambered-wing plane
- A primer on flight theory, and how it applies to paper airplanes
- Tips for improving the accuracy and distance of your throws
- The adjusting technique that helped break the record
- And more
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial
law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a
state of exception from law, martial law was understood and
practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a vital
component of both England's domestic and imperial legal order. It
was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue
Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish
spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on
Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins
reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and
creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate
new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that
legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and
political histories of early modern England and its empire.
John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of history s great
military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual
skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates
practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with
reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic
building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum,
methods for developing talent and strategic acumen, and recent case
studies that put principles into practice. Collins never tells
readers what to think, but in "Military Strategy" he provides them
with the intellectual tools to think for themselves. Written in a
clear, straightforward style, this book will appeal to officers,
policy-makers, students, and the public.
In this volume, John Collins speaks with the authority of one who
was literally present at the birth of the "low intensity conflict"
era. His long-term, intimate, and direct contact with the esoteric
world of special operations has few parallels. Their roots go back
in time and history considerably farther, but today's Special
Operations Forces are largely products of the past three decades.
Their development has been in response to the pressures of
world-wide situations perceived to bear upon or which actually do
affect American strategic interests. The use of raw military power
may not provide solutions to the complex problems involved and may
even be counter-productive. Special Operations Forces, uniquely
suited to fill the quasi-military gap, require the highest degree
of professional competence in the application of the classical
principles of war. This is a big order. It is difficult in a few
words to pay John Collins the tribute he deserves for continuing
efforts to educate both the Congress and the U.S. Armed Forces
concerning the capabilities and limitations of special operations
and the forces they involve. This latest addition to his carefully
researched studies combines history, philosophy, factual data, and
reference materials in a single document that should be on the
desks of civilian and military leaders whose responsibilities
relate in any way to special operations. William P. Yarborough
Lieutenant General, USA (Ret)
This book covers many topics that are crucial to military planning
but often receive only passing mention in histories or briefings.
Collins, a former Army officer, stresses land geography, but he
does not stint oceans, the atmosphere, or interplanetary space. His
discussions of urban areas are too brief, given the increasing
amount of large-scale violence in cities since the end of World War
II.
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