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** Includes a New Postcript 'The Chilcot Report-Early Thoughts on
Military Matters'** From 2001 Britain supported the United States
in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is
always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was
never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown were held responsible, and paid the price, but the role
played by the High Command in the Ministry of Defence also bears
examination. Critics have noted that the armed services were riven
by internal rivalry and their leadership was dysfunctional, but the
truth is more complicated. In his book Elliott explores the
circumstances that led to these wars and how the Ministry of
Defence coped with the challenges presented. He reveals how the
Service Chiefs were set at odds by the system, almost as rivals in
the making, with responsibility diffuse and authority ambiguous.
The MoD concentrated on making things work, rather than questioning
whether what they were being asked to do was practicable.
Federico Gomez de las Heras: Overview of Neglected Tropical
Diseases Gwendolyn A. Marriner Amit Nayyar, Eugene Uh, Sharon Y.
Wong, Tathagata Mukherjee, Laura E. Via , Matthew Carroll, Rachel
L. Edwards, Todd D. Gruber, Inhee Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Kriti Arora,
Kathleen D. England, Helena I.M. Boshoff, Clifton E. Barry III: The
Medicinal Chemistry of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Jeremy N. Burrows,
David Waterson: Discovering New Medicines to Control and Eradicate
Malaria Tomas von Geldern, Michael Oscar Harhay, Ivan Scandale,
Robert Don: Kinetoplastid Parasites Pei-Yong Shi,, Zheng Yin,
Shahul Nilar, Thomas H. Keller: Dengue Drug Discovery Dan Marquess:
Recent Advances in Discovery and Development of Medicines for the
Treatment of Secretory Diarrhea in the Developing World
A provocative look at how and why Britain has fallen into
decline from being a superpower in 1914 to being a third world
economy in 2014 by two of Britain's leading Economists
journalists
With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of
truth. Going South examines how the leader of the Industrial
Revolution came to exhibit the features of a "developing country."
The symptoms of this vertiginous plunge in the world's rankings are
already starkly apparent: a chronic balance of payment deficit, a
looming shortage of energy and food, a dysfunctional labor market,
volatility in economic growth, and a painful vulnerability to
external events. And if these are the big indicators of imminent
relegation to the Third World, many smaller ones are too numerous
to fully catalogue.
So stark is the evidence that it is our contention that Britain's
looming relegation is not in doubt. The names change with
intellectual fashion--the developing world, the Third World,
less-developed countries, "emerging markets," or simply the Global
South. But the destination is the same.
Britain is going south--rapidly.
Assuming that Britain faces up to its plight, there is no easy
model for the redevelopment of the national economy. Whichever path
is taken will be a hard one. The age of the quick fixes is
over.
Federico Gomez de las Heras: Overview of Neglected Tropical
Diseases Gwendolyn A. Marriner Amit Nayyar, Eugene Uh, Sharon Y.
Wong, Tathagata Mukherjee, Laura E. Via , Matthew Carroll, Rachel
L. Edwards, Todd D. Gruber, Inhee Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Kriti Arora,
Kathleen D. England, Helena I.M. Boshoff, Clifton E. Barry III: The
Medicinal Chemistry of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Jeremy N. Burrows,
David Waterson: Discovering New Medicines to Control and Eradicate
Malaria Tomas von Geldern, Michael Oscar Harhay, Ivan Scandale,
Robert Don: Kinetoplastid Parasites Pei-Yong Shi,, Zheng Yin,
Shahul Nilar, Thomas H. Keller: Dengue Drug Discovery Dan Marquess:
Recent Advances in Discovery and Development of Medicines for the
Treatment of Secretory Diarrhea in the Developing World
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Numb (Paperback)
L. Elliott; Illustrated by Wm Productions; G V Cora
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Beyond Belief (Paperback)
L. Elliott; Illustrated by Wm Productions; Ray H Richardson
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How to Date a Genie
Jessica L. Elliott
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