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Tae kwon do!
Easy-to-read, rhyming text describes a Tae kwon do class, at which children learn to kick, punch, and spin, as well as to cooperate and have fun.
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Warfighting and Disruptive Technologies
Occasionally, during times of peace, military forces achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry Pierce terms these developments 'disruptive innovations' and shows how senior leaders have often disguised them in order to ensure their innovations survived. He shows how more common innovations however, have been those of integrating new technologies to help perform existing missions better and not change them radically. The author calls these 'sustaining innovations'. The recent innovation history suggests two interesting questions. First, how can senior military leaders achieve a disruptive innovation when they are heavily engaged around the world and they are managing sustaining innovations? Second, what have been the external sources of disruptive (and sustaining) innovations? This book is essential reading for professionals and students interested in national security, military history and strategic issues.
1. Introduction 2. Explaining Disruptive Innovations 3. US Marine Corps Innovation: The development of amphibious warfare 4. Post-World War II Marine Corps Disruptive Innovations I: Helicopter warfare 5. Post-World War II Marine Corps Disruptive Innovations II: MAGTF warfare, combined arms operations 6. US Marine Corps Inchoate Disruptive Innovation: Maneuver warfare 7. US Marine Corps Sustaining Innovations and Summary of Disruptive Marine Corps Cases 8. US Navy Sustaining Innovation: Continuous aim gunfire 9. US Navy Disruptive Innovation: Carrier Warfare 10. Disruptive Innovation: Japanese carrier warfare 11. US Navy Disruptive Innovation: CWC - Naval Combined Arms Warfare 12. US Navy Sustaining Innovation: Carrier battle group concept 13. US Navy Disruptive Innovation Aborted: Project 60 - Defensive Sea Control Warfare 14. US Navy Disruptive Innovation: Maritime Action Groups - Surface Land Attack Warfare 15. US Navy Disruptive Innovation: Tactical Collaborative Network and a summary of disruptive navy cases 16. Conclusion
Captain Terry Pierce serves with the US Navy and is Deputy Chief of Staff Amphibious Forces 7th Fleet. He holds a doctorate and a Master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also holds a Master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in National Security Affairs, Strategic Planning.
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Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill
Siblings Jack and Jill deal with their dog, Bill, interrupting their T-ball game.
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Mother Earth's lullaby : a song for endangered animals
Rhyming text and colorful illustrations offer a gentle bedtime call to some of the world's most endangered animals.
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Crafting and managing effects: the evolution of the profession of arms
Recent operations conducted against US businesses and citizens have reemphasized a critical vulnerability in how the US Government thinks about and defends itself against nonkinetic instruments of power. This is particularly true in the manmade domain of cyber. In December 2014, a high-profile breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was linked to a state-sponsored cyber attack by North Korea. Apparently, North Korea was motivated by opposition to the film The Interview, a comedy about the assassination of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. The Obama administration responded to Pyongyang's alleged cyber attacks on Sony by imposing sanctions against the country's lucrative arms industry. National security conflicts are increasingly a battle of wits, and people must update the way we use them to match the increasingly complicated world in which we live. The challenge goes well beyond what we think; it is also how we think about problem sets that rests on new realities and principles that render traditional linear approaches insufficient, if not irrelevant.
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LEARNING TO RIDE TSUNAMIS
Sea Services have a storied history of being innovation leaders, ensuring strategic and operational warfighting advantages. Many of these innovations were sustaining in nature. They expect their senior leaders to champion such improvements, which create and employ radical technologies to advance a core warfighting competency. Some of them, however, were disruptive in nature. These are the rare innovations that senior leaders achieve by creating novel linkages between old and new technologies that recharacterized the very essence of naval warfare -- for example, carrier warfare, amphibious warfare, maneuver warfare, surface-ship Tomahawk cruise missiles, and submarine intercontinental ballistic missiles. Arguably, naval officers are even more innovative than they have ever been. In fact, the use of innovation in the naval services lexicon has become nearly as ubiquitous as jointness; it is something we all have to do to get promoted to the senior ranks. That is good, because innovation is a critical function of any military organization.
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Mealtime in the Coral Reef
\"Humans sit at a table with forks and knives to eat a meal. Animals of the coral reef have their own special ways of eating.\" (Wee Ones) Learn how parrotfish, sea stars, sea anemones and other reef animals catch and eat their meals. The three kinds of coral reefs are also described.
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Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
Pierce reviews Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by James Stavridis.
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