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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind. Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception...
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English
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"Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers a hidden world in a global investigation, drawing on secret documents, revealing interviews, and on-the-ground reporting. He shows how Palestine became the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration, and brutality of the hi-tech tools of the "Start-up Nation.""--
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's from the two men who launched the unit." --
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history between the British and Saudi governments to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world...
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English
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The House of Usher is built on death itself - and now it has a new master ... For generations the House of Usher has grown wealthier and more powerful on the invention and sale of murderous military weapons. But another evil has lived and grown within the House of Usher - a legacy of depravity and bloodshed that goes back for generations, and stains the hallways of the family mansion.
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Defense horizons volume no. 26
Publisher
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
9) Defense trade: better information needed to support decisions affecting proposed weapons transfers
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Publisher
U.S. General Accounting Office
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Report looks at how releasability of advanced weapons is determined, how U.S. technological advantage is considered and protected, and what information is needed to make informed decisions on the potential release of advanced weapons.
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Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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This one-of-a-kind user's guide to successful lobbying for defense appropriation draws on Matthew R. Kambrod's forty-plus years of experience both in the Pentagon as a military officer and on Capitol Hill as a lobbyist. The book presents step-by-step instructions for the lobbyist along with detailed information that only someone with the author's background could provide. He understands how the system works and shows how, when lobbying is conducted...
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English
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Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's...
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Series
Documented briefing volume DB-358-OSD
Publisher
Rand
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
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Driven by dramatically reduced defense budgets and spiraling costs of weapons systems, defense firms on both sides of the Atlantic are seeking increased access to each other's markets through collaborative ventures, teaming arrangements, or outright acquisitions. This book summarizes RAND's research on the current structure of the European defense market, focusing on the five countries with the largest defense industries in Europe: the United Kingdom,...
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United States congressional serial set volume serial no. 14815
Report / 108th Congress 1st session Senate volume 108-156
Report / 108th Congress 1st session Senate volume 108-156
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2003]
Language
English
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