Bøger af Christopher Paul

Using the principles of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality, the authors develop a framework for evaluating influence operations with an initial screening, conducting a full ethical risk assessment, and preparing a justification statement.

An exhibition of poems about sex organized together for your self-pleasures, fantasies, and escapades from infrequent philosophical musings from the world's most influential authors. This collection of intellectual and often humorous reflections provides a fascinating insight into a vast exhibition of topics.

Welcome to Volume 2 of the Shahrazad Press short story anthology series. Shahrazad Press is a burgeoning local publishing group in Berkeley, CA, featuring contributors from around the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. These 9 authors expressed the unifying theme of Loss and Recovery in unique and interesting ways. Most of the writers included in this volume have published a story in Volume 1 of the series, "My Keys Don't Know Where I Am," and new contributors include Jonathan Barber, Nicholas Black Darquia, and Dominic Mah. This volume also includes photography, drawings and illustrations as well. Happy Reading.

A short story anthology, including local authors Bay Area authors, as well as writers and artists from Mexico City.

An anthology of short stories all with the theme of "dreams and nightmares." Most of the writers are from the Bay Area of California, with two exceptions. Diego Caudillo is from Mexico and Ivan Parra Garcia is from Colombia. This is the fifth, and probably last, volume of short stories I will be publishing for a while. So, I hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to Volume #1 of the Shahrazad short story anthology series! In this small book, you will find stories as diverse as you could possibly imagine, all with the unifying theme of "Memory and Amnesia." I am very lucky to have talented writer friends both near and far who were willing to share their ideas on the subject. In these pages, you will meet a little girl who intentionally gets in trouble with her teacher in order to let her imagination run wild, a rather unusual living situation in a house that is more than a house, a man who explores his feelings and memories of a lost love through letter-writing, and much more. This is the first short story anthology by Shahrazad Press. For more information, please write to shahrazad.press@yahoo.com.

A detailed enumeration of activities, a synthesis of expert consensus on challenges to gray zone competition, and a dynamic menu of solutions can enhance the U.S. competitive position in the gray zone and beyond.

How would the world react if the existence of the human soul could be scientifically proven? Austin Cole is a young neural surgeon who makes an unusual discovery at Emory University's Neural Laboratory in Atlanta. The world quickly becomes interested in his findings and Cole soon finds himself pitted against the kings and gods of politics, science and religion. Yet things are not as they seem. An altered autopsy report, a double murder, an underworld figure with unlimited resources and a powerful political candidate all add to the swirling mystery and to a conclusion that will blow away the current understanding of man's place on earth!

This report presents a framework intended to help with planning for building partner capacity events, monitoring progress while the effort is in progress, and assessing results.

In recent years, the city of Delhi has had an explosive growth in terms of economy and Demography. Mostly through the In-Migration of people coming to Delhi for better employment opportunities. Many of them are from the poorer sections of society. Hence, there is a growing shortage of affordable housing in the city. The apex body Delhi Development Authority, has not been able to provide the it at the required rate, leading to shortage of planned and legal housing for the people. This study is to unravel the Real estate market in UACs of Delhi, the reasons of their growth and implications of the government policies on them. The Real estate market in these colonies is disintegrated and informal. Study is based on the parameters such as investment size, plot sizes, Liquidity of buying and selling period, Lock-in period, the FAR built-up. Other parameters include rental income, accommodation, tenure of the tenants, investment- post purchase and the Average rate of return.

This document presents the full ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provide training for aspects of operations in the information environment.

Every military activity has informational aspects, but the information environment (IE) is not well integrated into military planning, doctrine, or processes. Better understanding of the IE will improve command and control and situational awareness.

This report presents a realistic but fictional scenario as context for how assessment planning for inform, influence, and persuade efforts should work in practice, demonstrating core principles and best practices for developing effective assessments.

This report proposes a strategy for tactical Army cyber operations, enumerating overarching goals, objectives, and associated activities. Instructive case studies are provided that support implementation of the strategy.

To support the U.S. Marine Corps and its curriculum for information operations personnel, RAND has adapted the premise of the military classic The Defence of Duffer's Drift for a modern-day audience of Marine Corps officers.

Previous RAND research on historical insurgencies found that a conflict's overall balance of good and bad factors and practices corresponded perfectly with its outcome. A RAND study applied this scorecard approach to Afghanistan in 2015.

The U.S. Department of Defense has struggled to assess the progress and effectiveness of its information operations. Best practices across sectors can guide the assessment of these activities and ensure that they help meet national security goals.

This report explores what the United States can do in challenging capacity-building contexts to maximize prospects for success, focusing on potential challenges and workarounds and deriving recommendations for future engagements.

Historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a stalemate have generally followed a seven-step path. A "master narrative" distilled from these cases could help guide and assess the progress toward a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan.

Although there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico's current security situation, policymakers stand to benefit from historical lessons and efforts correlated with improvement in countries facing challenges related to violence and corruption.

RAND research identified practices and factors associated with success in security cooperation. A related diagnostic tool can help defense planners identify mismatches between funding, priorities, and propensity for success with a given country.

The Global Train and Equip "1206" Program supports U.S.-led capacity-building activities with foreign military partners. Interviews and survey data revealed challenges and best approaches to establishing an assessment framework for these projects.

Examining the price structure of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service and its impact on customer demand, workload, and equity in pricing.

Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of USMC intelligence examined how to align it efficiently and effectively with current and future missions and functions.