From the author of the groundbreaking Muskie on the Fly, this where-to destination guide highlights the best pike fisheries fly fishing from the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe - the best pike fly-fishing destinations across the globe! And with particular emphasis on finding big pike, not hammer handles! Each chapter is written by the author, includes comments from local guides, as well as detailed GIS maps highlighting each body of water and access roads. Also includes suggestions for gear...

Prior to the Vietnam war, American intellectual life rested comfortably on shared assumptions and often common ideals. Intellectuals largely supported the social and economic reforms of the 1930s, the war against Hitler's Germany, and U.S. conduct during the Cold War. By the early 1960s, a liberal intellectual consensus existed.The war in Southeast Asia shattered this fragile coalition, which promptly dissolved into numerous camps, each of which questioned American institutions, val...

US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through 2003.During these three decades, new technology and operational practices helped form what observers dubbed a 'Revolution in Military Affairs' in the 1990s and a 'New American Way of War' in the 2000s. Robert R. Tomes tells for the first time the story of how innovative approaches to solving bat...