War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance (open access)

War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

This report contains the presidential compliance on war powers resolution.
Date: January 16, 2007
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liberia's Post-War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments (open access)

Liberia's Post-War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments

This report covers recent developments in Liberia, a small, poor West African country which began a post-conflict transition process to achieve enduring peace, socio-economic reconstruction and democratic governance.
Date: January 30, 2006
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report details the transition of Afghanistan to a democracy, yet still debates the problem of insurgency. Moreover, the report debates whether stabilization is possible at all due to rising issues of insurgency. The report also offers a summary of how the U.S. intended to deal with the problem, and where the problem was located.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report considers the debate on the efficacy of U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Moreover, the report discusses how the Bush Administration's review of the progress resulted as inadequate, and thus ways of changing progress are being considered. The report also discusses the NATO led troops in the region.
Date: January 28, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses Afghanistan's political transition, which was completed with the convening of a parliament in December 2005. Since then, insurgent threats to Afghanistan's government have escalated to the point that some experts are questioning the future of U.S. stabilization efforts.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edith Chamberlin, January 31, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Edith Chamberlin, January 31, 2002

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Edith Chamberlin. Chamberlin’s mother was from Poland, her father was from England, and she was born in Shanghai, China. Her father was a cinematographer and was offered a job in the movie industry in the Philippines. She speaks of their life in the Philippines prior to the war. After the Japanese invaded the Philippines, she and her family were taken to Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. They remained there from January of 1942 through their liberation in February of 1945. After the war, their family re-established their life in the Philippines.
Date: January 31, 2002
Creator: Chamberlin, Edith
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Ho, January 28, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Ho, January 28, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Ho. Ho was a boy living in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. Ho’s father served as a major general in the Chinese Nationalist Army and the Japanese were after him and his family. They changed their identities and escaped to Luchow and joined his father. When the Japanese overran Luchow, Ho escaped to Kunming. He remained there for the rest of the war. When the war ended, Ho went to Macao before returning to Hong Kong.
Date: January 28, 2008
Creator: Ho, Robert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Francis Blake, January 8, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Francis Blake, January 8, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Francis Blake. Blake was born in Idaho and finished high school in Portland, Oregon. He then went to California for some college and worked in the mining industry in Arizona before joining the Marine Corps in August 1938. He trained at San Diego, then went to Sea School. Afterward, he was assigned to the USS Idaho (BB-42). He eventually became the captain's orderly and then an admiral's orderly while aboard the Idaho. Blake also served on Admiral Ernest King's flag allowance while King was Commander in Chief, US Fleet. Admiral King recommended Blake for a commission in the Marine Corps in June, 1943. When he got overseas, he was attached to the 3rd Marine Regiment prior to the invasion of Bougainville in an administrative support role. He performed similar duties on Guam during that invasion. When the 3rd MARDIV invaded Iwo Jima, Blake was an assistant to the G-1. When the war ended, he was back on Guam. He soon returned to the US and went to work discharging Marines. Blake retained his commission and stayed in the Corps. He served as marine detachment commanding officer aboard the …
Date: January 8, 2004
Creator: Blake, Francis E.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Terrorist Attacks and National Emergencies Act Declarations (open access)

Terrorist Attacks and National Emergencies Act Declarations

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Date: January 7, 2005
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News, (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 5, Ed. 1, January 2008 (open access)

Hellcat News, (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 5, Ed. 1, January 2008

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: January 2008
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya (open access)

The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya

This report provides a background on these traditions and their relationship to active terrorist groups; it also summarizes recent charges and responses, including the findings of the final report of the 9/11 Commission and relevant legislation in the 110th Congress.
Date: January 24, 2008
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden? (open access)

The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden?

The United States has been free of national debt for only two years, 1834 and 1835. We began our existence as a country in 1790 with a debt of $75 million. It rose to $3.8 trillion in 1997. It rose to a high of 108.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of World War II; declined to a post-World War II low of 23.8% of GDP in 1974; and, then, rose to another high of 49.5% of GDP in 1993. The major cause of debt accumulation has been war. The United States has financed the extraordinary expenditures associated with war by borrowing rather than by raising taxes or printing money. This pattern was broken by the large budget deficits of the The 1980s and 1990s, which caused the national debt to rise substantially as a fraction of GDP during peacetime.
Date: January 28, 2005
Creator: Labonte, Marc & Maniken, Gail E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, January 2000 (open access)

Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, January 2000

The Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal contains historical information about Colorado County, Texas including personal accounts and research into area stories.
Date: January 2000
Creator: Nesbitt Memorial Library
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congo (formerly Zaire) (open access)

Congo (formerly Zaire)

This report discusses the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, which is a vast-resource-rich country of 48 million people. Events there affect much of sub-Saharan Africa. In August 1998, Congo was plunged into its second civil war in 2 years. A peace accord was concluded in Lusaka, Zambia, in July and August 1999, and the U.N. Security Council later agreed to send a 5,500-member observer force, MONUC, to assist in the peace process. Fewer than 250 observers have gone to Congo, due to the failure of the parties to the Lusaka accord to fully implement its terms. The assassination of President Laurent Kabila on January 16, 2001, has raised new doubts about the prospects for peace in Congo.
Date: January 19, 2001
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers (open access)

Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers

The term “Reserve Component” is often used to refer collectively to the seven individual reserve components of the armed forces: the Army National Guard of the The United States, the Army Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve. The role of these seven reserve components, as codified in law at 10 U.S.C. 10102, is to “provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency, and at such other times as the national security may require, to fill the needs of the armed forces whenever...more units and persons are needed than are in the regular components.”
Date: January 10, 2005
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Highways, Volume 49, Number 1, January 2002 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 49, Number 1, January 2002

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state. There is a departments section covering events, dinning, site seeing, and travel spots. Featured articles in this issue provide readers with information on El Paso Museum of Art, enchiladas, ferries, Winter photos, Texas in the War Between the States, Old Laredo, and Ore Terminal Trail.
Date: January 2002
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: January 28, 2003
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instability in Chad (open access)

Instability in Chad

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Date: January 30, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Martial Law and National Emergency (open access)

Martial Law and National Emergency

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Date: January 7, 2005
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 2006 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 2006

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 1, 2006
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal and State Quarantine and Isolation Authority (open access)

Federal and State Quarantine and Isolation Authority

This report provides an overview of federal and state public health laws as they relate to the quarantine and isolation of individuals, a discussion of constitutional issues that may be raised should individual liberties be restricted in a quarantine situation, and federalism questions that may arise where federal and state authorities overlap. In addition, the possible role of the armed forces in enforcing public health measures is discussed, specifically whether the Posse Comitatus Act would constrain any military role, and other statutory authorities that may be used for the military enforcement of health measures.
Date: January 23, 2007
Creator: Swendiman, Kathleen S. & Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2007 (open access)

Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2007

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Date: January 14, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2006 (open access)

Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2006

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Date: January 8, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq (open access)

The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq

This report provides a brief overview of the major issues facing the Iraqi Kurds. The Iraqi Kurds' political autonomy, demands, and ambitions are causing friction with Christian and other minorities in the north, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other Arab leaders of Iraq, neighboring Turkey, and Iran. The U.S. ability to keep these tensions contained could wane as U.S. forces, as planned, draw down from Iraq over the next three years.
Date: January 8, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library