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The 2008 battle of Sadr City by Johnson, David E. (David Eugene), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The 2008 battle of Sadr City -- Background -- Methodology -- Setting conditions -- The area of operations -- Mission: stop the rockets and defeat criminal militias in Sadr City -- The ground fight in Sadr City: heavy armor matters -- The counter rocket fight -- Exploitation -- Key insights from the fight -- Reimagining urban operations as wide area security missions.…”
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Deadline! how premier organizations win the race against time / by Carrison, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.…”
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