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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October 1 Earlier actions by the United Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de octubre), The Missile Scare, States or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, tr. Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day (October 14–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba’s request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missile launch facilities started later that summer. An election was underway in the U.S. and the White House had denied Republican charges that it was ignoring Fidel Castro embracing Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 1961 dangerous Soviet missiles 90 miles from Florida. These missile preparations were confirmed when an Air Force The United States was concerned about an expansion U-2 spy plane produced clear photographic evidence of of Communism, and a Latin American country allying medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missile openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, facilities. The United States established a military block- given the U.S.-Soviet enmity since the end of World ade to prevent further missiles from entering Cuba. -
The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel
What Almost Was 63 What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel Matthew Schneider-Mayerson Between August of 1995 and July of 1996, Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives Newt Gingrich published two books. One, To Renew America, a folksy Republican polemic cobbled together from Gingrich’s speeches, served as a sequel to Contract with America, the blueprint of the conservative movement that assumed control of Congress in 1995.1 The other was 1945, coauthored with William R. Forstchen, a novel set in an alternate universe.2 In 1945’s divergent timeline, Germany does not declare war on the United States, the Soviet Union is split into fragments, and the United States and Germany have settled into a cold war. Nazi soldiers parachute into the United States to a capture a nuclear facility in Tennessee, but posses of arms-bearing American veterans successfully defend their country. 1945 was representative of the flourishing genre of alternate history novels in all but two ways: an author’s celebrity and its media exposure. Due to Gingrich’s status as the public leader of the conservative renaissance of the mid-1990s, 1945 was widely reviewed in mainstream publications. Treated as a curiosity and ridiculed for its poor literary quality, very few reviewers noted the libertarian themes in 1945, and even fewer placed it in the context of an inchoate literary genre.3 1995 can be considered the birth year of the alternate history novel as a genre. As a conceptual category, the counterfactual, as historians term their what-if narratives, has been pursued in print since classical Greece, if not earlier. -
Explore Equip Engage
20 YEARS EXPLORE EQUIP ENGAGE SAHARA CHALLENGE MANUAL 2021 Muslims are searching. Go prepared. Written and compiled by Fouad Masri © 2021 Crescent Project. All rights reserved. No portion of this manual may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States of America. Quotations from the Qur'an are from The Quran Translation, 7th Edition, by Abdullah Yusef Ali (Elmhurst NY: Tahrike Tarsile Quran, Inc., 2001 ). All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” – Jesus (John 10:10) Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I welcome you to Sahara Challenge, an intensive, practical training program designed to prepare Christians for a biblical, effective ministry among Muslims. Crescent Project is an interdenominational Christian ministry focused on helping fulfill the Great Commission to the Muslim world. Our goal is to see every Muslim have an opportunity to respond to the Gospel and be connected to a true follower of Jesus. Millions of Muslims today have never heard the Gospel. Our Challenge is to take the gospel message to the hearts of spiritually thirsty Muslims. They are in need of the living water, our Lord Jesus Christ. Confidence is needed as we minister. -
Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-Wood
Oral Roberts University Digital Showcase Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series Holy Spirit Research Center 2013 Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-wood Peniel Rajkumar Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/re2010series Part of the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Wild-wood, Emma, and Peniel Rajkumar. 2013. "Foundations for Mission." . http://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/re2010series/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Holy Spirit Research Center at Digital Showcase. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series by an authorized administrator of Digital Showcase. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES Volume 13 Foundations for Mission REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES The Centenary of the World Missionary Conference of 1910, held in Edinburgh, was a suggestive moment for many people seeking direction for Christian mission in the twenty-first century. Several different constituencies within world Christianity held significant events around 2010. From 2005, an international group worked collaboratively to develop an intercontinental and multi-denominational project, known as Edinburgh 2010, and based at New College, University of Edinburgh. This initiative brought together representatives of twenty different global Christian bodies, representing all major Christian denominations and confessions, and many different strands of mission and church life, to mark the Centenary. Essential to the work of the Edinburgh 1910 Conference, and of abiding value, were the findings of the eight think-tanks or ‘commissions’. These inspired the idea of a new round of collaborative reflection on Christian mission – but now focused on nine themes identified as being key to mission in the twenty-first century. -
KNOW THY ENEMY II a Look at the World’S Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs
KNOW THY ENEMY II A Look at the World’s Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs Edited by Michael T. Kindt Jerrold M. Post and Barry R. Schneider USAF Counterproliferation Center 325 Chennault Circle Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 36112-6427 November 2007 Disclaimer The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, or the USAF Counterproliferation Center. ISBN 978-0-9747403-7-9 ii Contents Disclaimer ..............................................................................................................ii Acknowledgments.................................................................................................. v Introduction..........................................................................................................vii Section One: Broader Non-state Actor Issues 1 Suicide Terrorism: Are There Important Counterterrorist Lessons to be Learned?.................1 James E. Winkates 2 Al Qaeda’s Modus Operandi: Anticipating Their Target Selection........................................................37 Barry R. Schneider 3 The Mind of the Terrorist: The Spectrum of Terrorism and Terrorist Psychologies .........................65 Jerrold M. Post 4 Political Islam and Radical Islam: The Cases of Pakistan and Bangladesh...................................................85 Stephen F. Burgess 5 Why Women Kill: A Look at the Evolutionary Role of Muslim Female Fighters..............113 -
Opinions Everybody Has One
Page 4A THE NORTH GEORGIA NEWS March 31, 2021 Opinions Everybody has one... Vietnam War Veterans Day Honest Love Commissioner’s Questions Monday, March 29, was National Vietnam War Veterans Day “Let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and County governments were originally created as administra- in the United States. It is celebrated on the 29th because it was truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will as- tive divisions of the states. Each state government in the country the day the last of the troops were withdrawn in 1973. I state that sure our heart before Him” (1 Jn. 3:18-19). has designed, through its constitution and statutes, the authorities, knowing full well there were troops left behind, perhaps as casual- Kim Scott was an executive with Google and other tech and powers that counties may exercise. I often encounter people ties of war or as prisoners not yet returned to us. President Trump companies. She tells about hiring “Bob,” a likeable guy with a who want to understand more about the differences between a recognized the annual holiday in 2017 by signing this special day stellar resume. Soon it was apparent he couldn’t do the work. She County Sole Commissioner and a County Board of Commissions. into law. It is a separate holiday from and the rest of the team covered for This can become a heated discussion, Veterans Day, which is celebrated in Military Bob... for a while. She finally fired All Things but I do try to help educate our resi- Q & A November to mark the end of World him.