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Title: 2007 National Guard Leadership
& Equipment Directory
Format: 5.5x8.5 in
Color: Four Color
Pages: 268
File Type: Adobe PDF
File Size: 22.36 MB (low resolution) - 90.20 MB(high resolution)
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NiSi's 2007 National Guard Leadership
& Equipment Directory is a unique publication that provides
comprehensive information about the National Guard's structure,
leadership, and equipment. Featuring information captured
almost entirely from open sources online, this book is a valuable
tool for anyone interested in today's citizen-soldiers.
Within the 268-page book, we profile
every major system in the Army and Air National Guard, including
"after-market" modernization equipment and electronics.
Additionally, because of their importance to the overall organization,
we provide full biographies on every National Guard general
officer currently serving today - both air and army. No other
publication brings all of this information together in one
complete package.
If you have an interest in the
National Guard, either as a branch of the service, or as a
potential market, you need to download this important book.
It's free, and available here.
For more information on the book,
read "Google vs. James Bond", and see the Table
of Contents section below.
Growing up in the seventies and
eighties, I was always interested in the secret world of intelligence,
espionage, and technology. With super spies like James Bond
permeating popular culture during the Cold War, what red-blooded
American boy wouldn’t be enticed by the fast cars, gadgets,
and pretty girls brought to life in those fantastic films?
Later, however, Bond became something of a silly caricature
of Ian Fleming’s original secret agent, and my interests
migrated to the Jack Ryan and John Clark characters found
in Tom Clancy’s novels. To this day, Cardinal of
the Kremlin and Patriot Games remain two of
my favorite books due to the simple fact that their characters
are more tangible, more real, than those found in most movies
and television shows. Through books like these, and my own
experiences later in life, I learned that computers and modern
research techniques were significantly more important to intelligence
professionals than exploding wristwatches and submersible
cars. Sorry Q.
This book is a testament to the
incredible changes that technology, particularly the Internet,
has brought to the world of intelligence. In no uncertain
terms, every Jack Ryan-wannabe (myself included) with a computer
and high-speed modem can obtain much of the same information
that governments use to spend millions of dollars to collect.
On one level, the Leadership and Equipment Guide is meant
to demonstrate that very clearly.
With the exception of three photographs,
and a few short paragraphs, all of the material in this book
was obtained through open sources online. Everything. Every
picture, profile, biography, and weapon description. Fifteen
years ago, collecting this information would have taken a
thousand man-hours and several months to publish. Today, the
collection and editing took a few weeks, and using commercially
available page layout software, production is much easier
than what it use to be. Additionally, using the web and email,
we can now use printers overseas to publish the print edition
for one-third of what it takes to print here in the United
States. None of this would be possible without the web. It
really has changed to world.
The Leadership & Equipment
Guide provides a complete picture of the men and women who
lead the National Guard in all fifty-four states and territories.
It also serves as a quick reference for those interested in
the National Guard’s equipment, structure, and modernization
priorities.
It should be noted that we did
not select most of the equipment described herein. With the
exception of the major systems (aircraft and vehicles), the
electronics, avionics, and soldier equipment highlighted here
have been drawn from the Army and Air National Guard’s
“Top 25” procurement priorities – a list
obtained, as you might expect, through open sources.
All of descriptions provided come
from copyright free content found online. As such, we have
chosen to waive our own copyright for this publication, and
will provide it as a free download via our website at www.northupinfo.com.
Once the print edition is published, it will also be given
away, provided recipients agree to pay for the shipping and
handling of the book.
Publications like these will become
the norm in the years ahead. With blogs, user modified online
encyclopedias, digital video, and other new media, publishers
will become aggregators of dynamic content, and the web, desktop
publishing, and cost effective printing techniques will make
anyone willing to work at it, an intelligence agency unto
themselves. Watch out Jack Ryan Google is watching.
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