Introduction to Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA): The U.S. Military"s Role to... (repost)

Introduction to Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA): The U.S. Military"s Role and Defend by Bert B. Tussing, Robert McCreight


English | 2014 | ISBN: 1466595671 | 222 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

The application of our Armed Forces within the states and territories of the United States is far from intuitive. The challenges of defending the country against assaults within the homeland are much more complex than engaging our enemies on foreign soil. Likewise, the introduction of the military’s appreciable capabilities in response to disasters, be they natural or manmade, comes with authorities and restrictions reflective of an American ethos that will always hold those forces as the servants of the people, never their overseers. Introduction to Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA): The U.S. Military’s Role and Defend examines the requirements and regulations that guide the utilization of our forces in the domestic environment.




Topics include:




The importance of the distinctions between homeland security, homeland defense, and Defense Support of Civil Authorities as they pertain to both authorities and responsibilities


The deliberately subservient position of the military to civil authorities when engaged in response and recovery operations following a disaster


The unique relationship between the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard in a mutually supportive effort that bridges requirements between defense on the high seas and law enforcement in territorial waters


The air defense mission over the United States, orchestrating manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft, and cruise missiles against threats of the same nature


The exceptional challenges that would be associated with the application of land forces in a defense mission on American soil


The development of the CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Enterprise as a function of the nation’s focus on preventing, responding to and recovering from a Weapons of Mass Destruction attack


New challenges emerging in the domestic environment that will call for the application of military resources, to include the Arctic, complex catastrophes, and cybersecurity issues

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Metaplanetary: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War by Tony Daniel

Metaplanetary: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War by Tony Daniel


English | Apr 2001 | ISBN: 006105142X | 498 Pages | PDF | 3 MB

Where do people go when they"ve outgrown the planets? To the Met — the shining web of living cables that hangs across black space, holding together the inner-planetary system in one resounding, roisterous community made up of every kind of humanity.

The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway

The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway by Judith Lee Hallock


English | May 1, 1997 | ISBN: 0820318868 | 248 Pages | PDF | 10.84 MB

From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate soldier to a weary veteran who longs to be at home. Callaway was a schoolteacher, husband, and father of two when he enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of twenty-seven. Serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and north Georgia. Along the way this perceptive observer and gifted writer wrote a continuous narrative detailing the activities, concerns, hopes, fears, discomforts, and pleasures of a Confederate soldier in the field. Whether writing about combat, illness, encampments, or homesickness, Callaway makes even the everyday aspects of soldiering interesting. This large collection, seventy-four letters in all, is a valuable historical reference that provides new insights into life behind the front lines of the Civil War.

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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955

The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 by Lindsey R. Swindall


English | 2014 | ISBN: 081304992X | 256 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

“A fresh and engaging study that illuminates the important, related, yet neglected histories of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs. Especially noteworthy is the perceptive treatment of the linkages between these related organizations’ domestic and international politics.”—Waldo E. Martin, coauthor of Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents




“A welcome addition to the growing body of literature that examines the interplay between civil rights and international affairs.”—John Kirk, author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970




“Swindall puts the ‘long civil rights’ movement on a dynamic new world map. Her meticulous use of archival materials opens up new roots and routes for scholars of American race history.”—Bill Mullen, author of Afro-Orientalism




The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depression. They fought within a leftist, Pan-African framework against disenfranchisement, segregation, labor exploitation, and colonialism.




By situating the development of the SNYC and the Council on African Affairs within the scope of the long civil rights movement, Lindsey Swindall reveals how these groups conceptualized the U.S. South as being central to their vision of a global African diaspora. Both organizations illustrate well the progressive collaborations that maintained an international awareness during World War II. Cleavages from anti-radical repression in the postwar years are also evident in the dismantling of these groups when they became casualties of the early Cold War.




By highlighting the cooperation that occurred between progressive activists from the Popular Front to the 1960s, Swindall adds to our understanding of the intergenerational nature of civil rights and anticolonial organizing.

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