Beginning in the Civil War, the U.S. Army sought to find an effective system to distinguish troops from different units. In the closing days of World War I, it finally arrived at a practical and desirable solution with the adoption of the shoulder patch or shoulder sleeve insignia. For more than eighty years, this often simple device, has been the source of pride and inspiration for servicemen everywhere. This all new collection (the third in a multi-volume set), with a gallery of more than 600 color and sepia toned illustrations of original insignia and period photographs, documents the...

After an unforgivable mistake almost costs his partner his life, Officer AJ Bugbee limps back home, where he lives quietly, helping out at his parents' fish market, doing routine work on a sleepy, small-town police force and trying to get his head on straight. His biggest problem is the pressure from his childhood friends, stars of a public-access ghost hunting show, to become a believer. The quiet is shattered when a man crashes down the stairs in a famously haunted house. Finding out what happened that night leads AJ into an increasingly weird tangle of deaths and disappearances. As the...

It's been a quiet year for Officer AJ Bugbee of the Stonington P.D. The special talent that made him so valuable to Chief Brown has been unused for so long that AJ wonders if he still has it. All of that changes one night when AJ wakes from a bad dream to a nightmare - a girl has been murdered, and a house set fire. The chief puts AJ on the case, and pairs him with an unlikely partner, the by-the-book Detective Wheeler. It's a highwire act for AJ. He has to unlock a crime scene's secrets while somehow keeping his own. And he has to protect himself and those around him from a menace unlike any...

Addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses.

Investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. In his examination, Aaron Franklin Brantly contextualizes broader cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility-rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons at the state level.