Selected poems by Salvatore Quasimodo.

Wind at Tindari Street in Agrigentum Nostalgia and Regret Lament for the South Mirror On the Island Metamorphoses in the Urn of the Saint ‘Already the rain is with us’ The Submerged Oboe Now Autumn Enemy of Death Refuge of Nocturnal Birds The Sea Still Sounds Imitation Of Joy Horses of Volcanoes And The Moon Alleyway Without Memory Of Death Grown Dark And Tall The Birth Of Song Autumn Freshness Of Rivers In Sleep Grant Me My Day Epitaph for Bice Donetti A Burial Sings in Me Almost A Madrigal Poetry Of Love Dialogue The Magpie Mocks Summer Man of My Time Auschwitz Suddenly It’s Evening To My Father...

Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale.

I Recall Your Smile To Rest In The Shade Evil, I’ve Often Encountered The Hope Even Of Seeing You Again Happiness Is Achieved Walking Thus To Rest In The Shade Perhaps One Morning Walking Day And Night The House By The Sea Another Effect Of The Moon Fresh Stanzas Near Vienna The Well Bagni di Lucca The Repertoire Dora Markus The Shadow Of The Magnolia Hitlerian Spring News From Mount Amiata Little Testament Index of First Lines...

The killing fields of Troy.

Book I The Quarrel Book II The Catalogue of Ships Book III The Duel Book IV The Truce Broken Book V Diomedes Fights the Gods Book VI Hector and Andromache Book VII Ajax against Hector Book VIII The Trojans at the Wall Book IX Achilles is Unmoved Book X The Night Raid Book XI The Achaeans Routed Book XII Hector storms the Wall Book XIII The Fight at the Ships Book XIV Hera tricks Zeus Book XV The Greeks at Bay Book XVI The Death of Patroclus Book XVII The Fight for Patroclus’ Body Book XVIII New Armour for Achilles Book XIX The Quarrel is Ended Book XX Achilles Leads the Army Book XXI The Fight at the River Book XXII The Death of Hector Book XXIII The Funeral Games for Patroclus Book XXIV Achilles and Priam...

A Selection of Poems from his complete works, in verse translation, including Morphine, Der Scheidende, Der Asra, and lyrics from the Buch der Lieder.

Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ein Fichtenbaum’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Es liegt der heisse Sommer’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ich glaub nicht an den Himmel’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ich kann es nicht vergessen’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Als ich, auf der Reise’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Still ist die Nacht’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Sie liebten sich beide’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Mein Kind, wir waren Kinder’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Der Tod, das ist’ Neue Gedichte: Neuer Frühling: ‘Unterm weissen Baume’ Neue Gedichte: Neuer Frühling: ‘Es war ein alter König’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: ‘Wenn ich, beseligt’ Neue Gedichte: In Der Fremde: ‘Ich hatte einst’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: Romanzen: ‘Ein Weib’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: Romanzen: ‘Die Unbekannte’ Neue Gedichte: Zur Ollea: ‘Altes Kaminstück’ Romanzero: Erstes Buch: Historien: ‘Der Asra’ Romanzero: Zweites Buch: Lamentationen: Gedächtnisfeier’ Gedichte 1853 Und 1854: Zum Lazarus: ‘Einst sah ich viele...

A modernized translation of the poem Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy....

BOOK I - Troilus's Love BOOK II - Love Encouraged BOOK III - The Consummation BOOK IV - The Separation BOOK V - The Betrayal

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself Outside Itself Anonymous Long After Nowhere To Flee Substance And The Void One Long Ridge Poetry Can Do Didactic Too In the Valley Why Be Lonely? Black Flowers Diamond Eye They See Through and Past You Terrestrial The Wall Gift Of The Ring-Makers The Error The Happy Traveller Desperations Fragments of Crystal White Air Passing Wasp Est-il Paradis? Be Free After The Climb Mist In The Meadow Ours To Do Slope By The River Light In The Air Grass Is An Institution Possibility The Burning Man Signs in the Stone Nothing Else Will Green Ways Listening to the Movement The Long Soft Sighing of the Tide The Lark in Eternity, the Hawk in Time Strange Self Almost a Clue Wind in the Poplar Naming the Names Lighter Mouth The Changelings Months Of Grace Mind What Is Solid Bright, You Rise Evening Hour Over-World Self Aside Thoughts In The Shade Forb...

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

I: The Depths Outside Goldcrest Fences Civilisation Doorway No Silence Un-Confessional Deer Inattention City Meditation Absence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformation Moment Beauty Yearning III: The Sacred House Going Beyond Give After Them Open, More Open Life Is Coming From Cyllene Sacred House Tangles Cycle Few Sea Voices Not For Ever Others’ Hands Face to Face Over and Under Pupa Muse Mouth Refuge Involution Poetry For those IV: Values An Die Geliebte Values of Light Dark-Light Once Only Aspire Falling Back Blade of Tao Leaves Mercy Flute Falling Time Blind Truth Deneb, Great Star Deepening She Scorpius Work It Meta-Fear Naming Moon-Fog Index Of First Lines...

The Department of Defense (DOD) anticipates the realization of biomimetic bird and two-inch, insect-sized systems within the 2015–47 period. Although robot systems of one millimeter or smaller are not explicitly specified in current DOD and Air Force technology road maps, the technological aims towards this size can be clearly inferred from official documents. This research assesses the likelihood of, and barriers to, the realization of true microrobots and nanorobots (defined as submillimeter-sized robots of micro-meter and nanometer proportions, respectively) that can perform in military applications by 2035. This research finds that the realization of true microrobots for military applications by 2035 is unlikely, except for a single case of microrobots....

The study investigates whether information as a weapon can achieve the purposes of war. Specifically, can the use of the “information weapon” diminish an adversary’s will and capacity to fight. The results indicate that while information may be considered a weapon, it is one that must be used with caution. The more enthusiastic proponents of the information weapon tend to overestimate its ability to diminish enemy will and capacity to fight....

1 INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . 6 2 CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ—TIMELESS AND ENDURING . . . . . 9 Notes . . . . . 14 3 INFORMATION—THE ULTIMATE PRECISON-GUIDED WEAPON . . . . 17 Notes . . . . . 23 4 ANALYSIS—IS INFORMATION A WEAPON? . . . . 27 Notes . . . . . 35 5 IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION . . . . 37 Notes . . . . 39...

This study analyzes the use of airpower against enemy ground forces. Maj Scott G.Walker assesses current doctrinal definitions of the close air support and interdiction missions as seen by the Air Force and Army, comparing and contrasting the two. The themes that recur throughout are the need for planning to remain flexible, using the speed and firepower of air attack to concentrate force where needed, and the requirement for good operational and tactical intelligence....

INTRODUCTION . . . . . 1 THE FIELD ARMY DESCRIBED . . . . 9 ATTACKING THE ENEMY . . . . . 19 SYNCHRONIZING AIR AND GROUND FORCES . . . . . 39 CASE STUDIES . . . . 45 AN ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR COUNTERLAND OPERATIONS . . . . 71...

The introduction of Shrike anti-radiation missile (ARM) negated the requirement to overfly the site, but its short range required further improvement. The improvement came in the Standard ARM, a missile that was followed by development of the High-Speed Anti- Radiation Missile, or HARM, the weapon of choice for today’s Weasel. That aircraft is the Wild Weasel, indicating the need for such an aircraft in the future....

This analysis concludes the answer is to reorganize existing forces into a Quick Response Airpower Force (QRAF). The QRAF concept involves a force structure that can help reduce the operations tempo in the DOD by replacing forward presence with a credible continental United States-based, quick response, deterrent force. This study presents a discussion and background of the problem, its importance, related problems, and past attempts at solutions. It offers a framework describing a quick response force and what it should be capable of doing. After discussing the current US Air Force attempts to provide this capability, the composite wing and the Airpower Expeditionary Force, the force of tomorrow—the threetiered QRAF—is presented. The study concludes with recommendations for further study, limitations of the analysis, and its implications....

1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . 2 2 THE PROBLEM . . . . 3 Notes . . . . . 8 3 THE FORCE REQUIREMENT . . . . 9 Notes . . . . . 13 4 THE FORCE TODAY . . . . 15 Notes . . . . . 25 5 THE FORCE TOMORROW . . . . 27 Notes . . . . . 31 6 CONCLUSION . . . . . 33 Notes . . . . . 37...

This study analyzes the evolution of Seventh Air Force’s joint command and control (C2) relationships as well as the development of joint operational procedures and doctrine in the Central Pacific during World War II. As this was arguably the most joint theater in World War II, there are many lessons about the challenges of joint C2 and the development of joint combat procedures that are relevant to contemporary airmen....

1 INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 2 BEGINNINGS—THE FORGING OF SEVENTH AIR FORCE . . 9 3 EARLY CAMPAIGNS: THE GILBERTS AND THE MARSHALLS . . . . 21 4 LATER CAMPAIGNS: NEUTRALIZATION OF THE CAROLINES, MARIANAS CAMPAIGN, IWO JIMA, AND OKINAWA . . . . 43 5 CONCLUSION . . . . . . 75...

This paper explores the advances in automatic identification technology, specifically radio frequency identification, and seeks to exploit these capabilities for use in the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain. Using technological trends, a thorough literature review, and the opinions of experts, the paper compares current technology to a 2035 requirements forecast to identify capability gaps. The end goal is logistics situational awareness, whereby the DOD has the ability to provide end-to-end visibility throughout its supply chain and can rapidly mobilize, deploy, sustain, and redeploy forces in support of national security objectives....

After exploring the definitions and theories of nonkinetic warfare, this paper charts the development of warfare in practice and finds that the latest incarnation of warfare, by making the will of the people the primary target, has moved into the nonkinetic realm....

A historian’s occupational disease is to find old precedents for practically everything new that comes along. And that is true for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) as well. In one way they are merely the continuation of the millennia-old human longing for methods of striking or observing one’s enemies while remaining safe. The purpose of this essay is to briefly explore that which is old, to dwell for a time on what seems to be new, and to conclude with some speculations about the future of unmanned systems....

The authors assert that the lack of an effective cyberspace C2 structure critically reduces the responsiveness to combatant and joint task force commanders and increases the difficulty of integrating cyberspace capabilities into operational plans and execution. The traditional military hierarchies currently used for cyberspace C2 do not have the agility to deal with the high velocity of change that characterizes cyberspace. Instead, the authors argue for flexible organizational structures to match the complexity and pace of the cyberspace operational environment....

The US commercial air carriers provide a unique and critical enabler that helps us meet our mobility requirements in the form of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). Colonel Schauber contends that changes allowing increased foreign ownership or control opportunities would threaten our national security by jeopardizing the DOD’s accessibility to CRAF assets. Although the CRAF has formally been utilized only twice, its importance and our reliance on it cannot be overstated....

Gen John P. Jumper, former Air Force chief of staff, tasked Air Force Space Command with the responsibility of developing, fielding, and executing tactical and operationally responsive space capabilities near and through space. The newly created initiative known as Joint Warfighting Space focused on near space due to the advantage of achieving spacelike capabilities at a lower cost. Such capabilities could offer continuous, organic, survivable, and “stay and stare” persistence to theater commanders, thus potentially relieving the need for national and strategic systems. Effects-based operations, network-centric warfare, and rapid maneuver demand this persistence....

In support of national and military security strategies, the DOD has established the joint force commander (JFC) as the means to provide unity of command, exercised through component commanders, during contingency operations. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is key to the JFC’s successful prosecution of contingency operations. The multifaceted complexity cannot be overstated as both national and theater ISR architectures include many linked nodes that can act and be tasked independently from one another (i.e., the platforms, sensors, DOD and commercial communication nodes, and a variety of exploitation organizations). The JFC cannot continue to ignore this reality if he or she wants to properly employ ISR-intensive effects-based operations (EBO) to achieve overall campaign objectives—that is, to provide unity of ISR effects in support of the campaign plan....