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Hiatus (Hardcover)
Justin Perkins
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R1,055
Discovery Miles 10 550
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An account by the American missionary, Justin Perkins, of his years
living among the Christians of Persia, with a new Introduction by
John Ameer, setting the activities and experiences of the American
missionaries in Persia in their historical context.
Gives a travelogue and a journal of his missionary activities in
the Middle East between 1834 and 1841, primarily with the Church of
the East.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
From fighting terrorists to stabilizing a war-torn country to
waging all-out combat, military campaigns are increasingly shaped
by networks that enable dispersed and disparate forces to
collaborate by sharing data. Along with the high-precision sensors
and weapons they connect, networks are turning information power
into military power. Defense investment priorities are shifting
from mechanized platforms and weapons to the information
collectors, processors, links and services that compose these
networks. With its unmatched defense resources and technological
talents, the United States has pioneered networked warfare. But the
United States will have company-not all of it friendly. For
example, China and Al Qaeda, using very different doctrines, are
showing interest in tapping the power of information. Indeed, Al
Qaeda and its franchised affiliates are displaying cunning and
resourcefulness in putting this power to work with virtually no
investment. As adversaries exploit networks, the United States must
seek new leverage by improving its fighters' ability to use
information in war's confusing, critical, and violent conditions.
Blessed with more, better, and timelier information, yet vexed by
increasingly murky circumstances, the cognitive faculties of
military decision makers-lieutenants no less than lieutenant
generals-are more crucial than ever. In a forthcoming National
Defense University book, the authors suggest why and how U.S. and
allied forces should improve these faculties to attain new
operational and strategic advantages, or at least to avoid the loss
of the advantages they now enjoy. Although military combat is
unique, the authors draw lessons from non-military sectors,
including some in which urgent life-and-death decisions must be
made. This paper summarizes their thinking. While this is neither
the first nor the last word on why and how to gain cognitive
advantage, it aims to take an integrated view, provide a
geo-strategic context, broaden and heighten awareness, frame policy
issues, offer preliminary advice, and indicate where research and
analysis is needed.
As the world careens into the 21st century, the capacity and means
by which the American Armed Forces defend their nation are entering
a paradigm-breaking transition period. Previous transitions have
been driven by the technologies of weapons and their platforms:
from sail, to boiler, to turbine; from foot, to horse, to vehicle;
from balloon, to manned aircraft, to unmanned aircraft. This is not
so in the 21st century. We need to reset our "warfighting gyro," so
to speak. To this end, taking the information revolution as a
starting point, Battle-Wise argues that only by strengthening the
relationship between information technology and brain matter will
the U.S. military enhance its ability to outsmart and outfight
future adversaries. We certainly have had our challenges in recent
military operations. Despite the exceptional heroism, courage, and
intellect of today's young military members, we need to reformulate
the manner by which we prepare them. For decades we have given them
the best weapons systems our country could produce. The authors
believe, as I do, that the time has come to augment weapons systems
and information networks with the intellectual tools that will
enable them to gain and maintain cognitive superiority and thus
turn the tables on our clever and nimble adversaries. Only by
developing battle-wise soldiers-a daunting, but critically
important effort on the part of our military leadership-can we
expect to avoid the "second kick of a mule."
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