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Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
Author
Series
Fortress volume 1
Publisher
Osprey
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
xvii, 593 pages : illustrations, folded color maps (2 in pocket) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The development of plans to protect the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere that concentrates on policy in the three years before Pearl Harbor, the gradual merger of hemisphere defense into a broader national defense policy, the transition to offensive plans after Pearl Harbor, and the military relationships of the United States with other American nations.
14) Tricky behavior
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses how animals use tricky behavior to protect themselves from predators or to catch prey"--Provided by publisher.
15) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year....
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes animals--such as horned lizards, bolas spiders, cobras, and archer fish--that survive by throwing something to either catch prey or to avoid being captured by their enemies.
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