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This book tells a remarkable true story of bureaucratic assassination during the Trump presidency, revealing in vivid detail how career federal employees thwarted President Trump's efforts to drain the swamp.Mark Moyar, a senior political appointee at the US Agency for International Development, discovered evidence of corruption involving five career bureaucrats and reported it to agency officials in 2018. Senior bureaucrats orchestrated a sop...

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Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 is the sequel to the immensely influential and controversial Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side. Rejecting the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly, it shows America's war to have been a strategic necessity tha...

This book provides politicians, aid organizations, and taxpayers a compelling argument for fundamentally changing foreign aid. Foreign aid has been ineffective because it has been based upon flawed assumptions about national development. Aid can be made effective by shifting emphasis from poverty alleviation to leadership cultivation and cultural transformation.

In this timely and fascinating account of US military power in the era of Barack Obama, a renowned historian with more than a decade inside the US Department of Defense reveals the true nature of the president's political legacy as his two terms in office draw to a close.In stunning detail, Mark Moyar illustrates how the mounting global catastrophes of Obama's second term are the direct result of the president's first-term decisions to shrink ...

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Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than 100 U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, historian Mark Moyar dissects attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure. Filled with new revelations and corrections of existing accounts, Moyar's long overdue history sets the record straight about one of the last remaining secrets of the Vietnam War--and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Th...

An acclaimed military historian charts the rocky history of the America's Special Operations Forces, highlighting both the heroism of America's finest soldiers and the strategic limits of special operations.

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Foreign aid can be made much more effective by shifting emphasis from poverty alleviation to leadership cultivation and cultural transformation.

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, an eminent military historian and expert on American diplomatic and intelligence history demonstrates that government officials were right to believe that the fall of South Vietnam would endanger the security interests of the United States.

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, an eminent military historian and expert on American diplomatic and intelligence history demonstrates that government officials were right to believe that the fall of South Vietnam would endanger the security interests of the United States.

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