Flying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program. By Michael E. Brown. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 358p. $47.50. - Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era. By Daniel Wirls. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 247p. $31.50.

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-490
Author(s):  
James M. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Cornell University ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
The U.S

Covert Warriors for Hire

2018 ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Kyle Burke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The World ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
The U.S

In the late 1970s, a new set of Americans took up the dream of a global anticommunist revolution. Many were high-ranking CIA and military officers who had been forced from their jobs by the Ford and Carter administrations in the wake of the Vietnam War. As Congress passed new laws constraining the United States’ clandestine services, these ex-soldiers and spies argued that the state’s deteriorating covert war-making abilities signaled a broader decline in U.S. power. To remedy that, retired covert warriors such as U.S. Army General John Singlaub, a thirty-year veteran of special operations, entered the world of conservative activism, which promised both steady pay and power in retirement. Working in the shadow of the state, they sought to revitalize a form of combat to which they had dedicated their lives. Some even started private military firms to fill in for the U.S. government. Meanwhile, hundreds of American men, mostly disgruntled Vietnam veterans, sought new lives as mercenaries, first in Southeast Asia and then in Rhodesia and Angola. In the late 1970s, these two camps of revanchist Americans—retired covert warriors and aspiring mercenaries—established patterns of paramilitarism that would transform the anticommunist international in the Reagan era.

Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide. By Peter Andreas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 176p. $39.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-841
Author(s):  
Frank O. Mora
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Illegal Drugs ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

The difficulty of policing a complex border like that between the United States and Mexico, specifically stemming the flow of illegal drugs and immigration, demonstrates, according to Peter Andreas's insightful and pathbreaking analysis, the challenges associated with globalization, diminished sovereignty, and economic integration between developed and developing economies. In fact, as he notes, intensifying law enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border has had several unintended consequences, including enhancing the incentive and thus the flow of illegal drugs and migrants, which, in turn, create obstacles to the expansion of legal flows. Throughout the book an implicit question emerges: How do you balance the positive gains from globalization with the negative or dark side effects of free trade, that is, drug trafficking and illegal immigration? Taking the dilemma further, how can states in a global, borderless economy promote two contradictory policies simultaneously: strong prohibitionist, law-enforcement policies to enforce state sovereignty and economic neoliberalism and integration?

COCORP: Laramie Range Area, Wyoming

Geophysics ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1618-1618 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Cost Of Reproduction ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Laramie Range ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) announces the availability of the data package and tapes for the Laramie Range area, Wyoming, for the cost of reproduction. The COCORP operation is part of the U.S. Geodynamics Project sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and funded by the National Science Foundation. The executive committee of the consortium consists of members from Cornell University, University of Houston, Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Cornell University is the operating institution.

COCORP Oklahoma Area, Part I

Geophysics ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Cost Of Reproduction ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Crust And Upper Mantle ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) announces the availability of the data package and tapes for the Oklahoma area, part I, for the cost of reproduction. These data were obtained by COCORP who are applying sophisticated, continuous seismic reflection techniques to the solution of geologic problems of the earth's crust and upper mantle. The operation is part of the U.S. Geodynamics Project sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and funded by the National Science Foundation. The executive committee of the consortium consists of members from Cornell University, University of Houston, Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Cornell University is the operating institution.

A New Braconid from Mexico

1952 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
John C. Martin
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
North America North ◽  
The U.S

In revising the genus Triaspis Haliday, as found in North America north of Mexico, the author studied an undescribed species from Mexico. This form is a parasite of Apion godmani Wagner, a weevil of economic importance. This paper provides a name and a description for this new parasite.The author is most grateful to Dr. V. S. L. Pate of Cornell University for his helpful criticism of the manuscript, and also to Mr. C. F. W. Muesebeck of the U.S. National Museum for the loan of material, and to Dr. Arthur C. Smith of Cornell University for the specimens collected while he was studying the biology of the host in Mexico.

Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas. By Alexander Cooley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 321p. $29.95.

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-391
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Military Facilities ◽  
Base Politics ◽  
Host Nation ◽  
The U.S

On September 5, 1995, three United States military personnel abducted and raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl on Okinawa, an island in the Pacific that houses roughly 75% of the U.S. military facilities in Japan. After a month and a half of smaller rallies, more than 85,000 demonstrators gathered in late October that year to protest not only the crime itself but also the presence of the U.S. bases on this string of islands that sit a thousand miles south of mainland Japan. Despite the enormous tragedy of this incident, the widespread international attention it received, and the Okinawan governor's refusal afterwards to renew land to the bases, more than 48,000 U.S. military personnel, their dependents, and civilians remain today on the island, which is roughly the size of Los Angeles. Tragedies at other U.S. bases overseas have similarly not altered the bilateral contracts with the host nation. In 1998, for example, a marine airplane accidentally severed a ski-lift cable for a gondola in Cavalese, Italy, killing all 20 passengers aboard, but this incident did not negatively impact the presence of the U.S. military in that nation.

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