The Past as Prologue

2006-05-08
 |  History
The Past as Prologue

Author: Williamson Murray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521619637

Category: History

Page: 298

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Exploring the usefulness of the study of history for contemporary military strategists, this volume illustrates the great importance of military history while simultaneously revealing the challenges of applying the past to the present. Essays from authors of diverse backgrounds--British and American, Civilian and Military--present an overwhelming argument for the necessity of the study of the past by today's military leaders in spite of these challenges. Part I examines the relationship between history and the military profession. Part II explores specific historical cases that reveal the repetitiveness of certain military problems.

The Past as Prologue

2022-11-09
 |  History
The Past as Prologue

Author: John Tierney

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

ISBN: 9781648046285

Category: History

Page: 578

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The Past as Prologue ("Over There" in American History) By: John Tierney The Past as Prologue ("Over There" in American History) is a collection of essays (162) written between 2015 and 2021. The central theme, from the main title, is an attempt to tie history to the present and future on the subject, bearing in mind the recent domestic turmoil to "erase" aspects of "Americana" or to alter the past in order to build a different future. In this sense the book is "traditional" insofar as it respects the past as a "prologue" to what comes next. But the hope ("aspiration") is that the best elements of American history in world politics will serve as guides to what the country can do to provide a secure and free global future. The essays herein try to remember when Americans won world wars and the Cold War, when they made efforts to both "isolate" themselves from war and conflict and when they, reluctantly, had to "intervene" to establish peace and prosperity where disaster had destroyed both. In this sense the book looks "forward" to a better future, where the best elements of history carry forth and where the "other" elements are allowed to develop amidst stability and progress. Finally, the essays try to resurrect America's history in world politics, against a background where it has been forgotten, which in history has been called "normalcy." The reader may judge if the term applies.

Past Prologue

2002-07-18
 |  Fiction
Past Prologue

Author: L.A. Graf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780743445979

Category: Fiction

Page: 272

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Thanks to the accidental triggering of an ancient alien technology, Captain Kirk has been banished to his own past. During a brutal massacre on Tarsus IV, Kodos the Executioner entered the history books as one of the most genocidal tyrants of the twenty-third century. As a boy, Kirk barely survived. Can he stand by now and let it happen again? Lt. Kevin Riley is the only other survivor of Tarsus IV serving aboard the U.S.S Enterprise. His traumatic memories provide Spock's best hope of finding their time-lost captain - before Kirk alters their time line forever!

America and the Future of War

2017-04-01
 |  History
America and the Future of War

Author: Williamson Murray

Publisher: Hoover Press

ISBN: 9780817920067

Category: History

Page: 184

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Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about conflict deserves in the formation of American strategy in coming decades. The author offers a historical perspective to show that armed conflict between organized political groups has been mankind's constant companion and that America must remain prepared to use its military power to deal with an unstable, uncertain, and fractious world.Williamson Murray shows that while there are aspects of human conflict that will not change no matter what advances in technology or computing power may occur, the character of war appears to be changing at an increasingly rapid pace with scientific advances providing new and more complex weapons, means of production, communications, and sensors, and myriad other inventions, all capable of altering the character of the battle space in unexpected fashions. He explains why the past is crucial to understanding many of the possibilities that lie in wait, as well as for any examination of the course of American strategy and military performance in the future—and warns that the moral and human results of the failure of American politicians and military leaders to recognize the implications of the past are already apparent.

The Janus Gate Three: Past Prologue

2012-09-11
 |  Fiction
The Janus Gate Three: Past Prologue

Author: L A Graf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781471106484

Category: Fiction

Page: 288

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In the final part of the trilogy, we find that space and time have been altered by the Janus Gate. Members of the crew of the Enterprise have been thrown backward and forward through time, altering history, and then returning to the present many years older or younger. Mr Spock and Chief Engineer Scott have managed to avoid the effects of the Janus Gate and are trying desperately to reorganise the crew and to find a way to pass them through the gate to restore them to their proper ages. This task is made even more difficult when they realise that they must re-adjust history to ensure not only that everyone still exists in the present, but also that the Federation itself has a future. Captain James T. Kirk, meanwhile, remains trapped in his own past. As a boy, he barely survived a brutal massacre on Tarsus IV - an event which resonates through twenty-third century history. Can he stand by now and watch those same events unfold again? The traumatic memories of Enterprise crewmember Lt Kevin Riley -- a fellow survivor of Tarsus IV -- may be Spock's best hope to locate the captain before time runs out for them all.

Past Prologue

2019-07-23
 |  Fiction
Past Prologue

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781982139582

Category: Fiction

Page: 34

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Where should we go? All that we knew is gone, and all that we have is each other… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon and Steve Berry—along with their popular series characters Jamie Fraser and Cotton Malone—team up for the first time ever.

Past Prologue

2014-12-04
 |  Fiction
Past Prologue

Author: Gary Sapp

Publisher: Nest Egg Publishing

ISBN: 9781310615023

Category: Fiction

Page: 124

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Sometimes the game of future's past is played by bending the rules. But the citizens of the city of Atlanta have broken them all. Thomas Pepper draws close...dangerously close to discovering the answers to the three questions that every Person of Color in America wants to know: Who killed the first Black president of the United States? Who is the Caretaker? And what is the Whirlwind? Special Agent Christopher Prince and his childhood friend Dr. Angel Hicks Dupree learn that their lies and worse...all of their truths have come back to potentially destroy them both. And while one player tragically exits the game forever, another experiences a rebirth that you will have to see to believe.

The Past as Prologue?

2002
 |  Colombia
The Past as Prologue?

Author: Dennis M. Rempe

Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute

ISBN: UTEXAS:059173010072261

Category: Colombia

Page: 60

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"The author outlines the history of U.S. counterinsurgency policy and the recommendations made by U.S. Special Survey Teams in Colombia from 1958-66. An examination of that history and the concomitant recommendations indicates that a review of that record would be in order. This monograph comes at a time when the United States is seriously considering broadening its policy toward Colombia and addressing Colombia's continuing internal war in a global and regional context. Thus, it provides a point of departure from which policymakers in the United States and Colombia can review where we have been, where we are, and where we need to go."--SSI site.