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Greer, Gordon Bruce was born on February 17, 1932 in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Walker and Winifred (Fletcher) Greer.
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All-Weather Fighters: The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War
(Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activi...)
Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activities of the United States Air Force's all-weather fighters during the first part of the Cold War. He covers the organization, development and decline of the all-weather force in response to the Soviet Union's long-range strategic bomber force equipped with atomic weapons. The author describes not only the individual aircraft from the early night fighters of World War II through the F-106A of the seventies and beyond but also the control organization that directed them until the whole operation was made superfluous by the ballistic missile standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in the latter half of the Cold War.
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The Role of Luck
(In attempting to analyze the role of luck in war, a rathe...)
In attempting to analyze the role of luck in war, a rather narrow definition of luck is necessary. The conventional dictionary definitions of luck are a force that brings good fortune or adversity and the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual. Those definitions are so broad that they would appear to cover many, perhaps most, events in war. There is in literature an old expression, deus ex machina, a translation into Latin of the original Greek thēos ek mechanēs. While it literally translates as a god from a machine, its meaning is a person or thing that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. In the book a similar but probably unique concept, felix ex machina, will be used to denote certain extreme instances of luck which was relatively sudden, completely unexpected with dramatic consequences, good or bad, in war.
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All-Weather Fighters: The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War (Hardback) - Common
(Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activi...)
Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activities of the United States Air Force's all-weather fighters during the first part of the Cold War. He covers the organization, development and decline of the all-weather force in response to the Soviet Union's long-range strategic bomber force equipped with atomic weapons. The author describes not only the individual aircraft from the early n...
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Gordon Bruce Greer
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Harvard (Bachelor of Arts, 1953. Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1959). Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1957-1959.
Career
Associate Foley, Sammond & Lardner, Milwaukee, 1959-1961. Associate Bingham Dana LLP, Boston, 1961-1967, partner, 1967-1997, of counsel, 1997—2002. Retired, 2002
Lecturer Boston University School Law, 1998-2002.
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The Role of Luck
(In attempting to analyze the role of luck in war, a rathe...)
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All-Weather Fighters: The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War
(Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activi...)
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All-Weather Fighters: The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War (Hardback) - Common
(Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activi...)
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The Role of Luck
Membership
Major United States Air Force Reserve. Member Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Brae Burn Country Club, Harvard Club (Boston).
Connections
Married Nancy Linda Hannaford, June 14, 1959. Children: Gordon Bruce, Alison Clark.
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Republican
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1953
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1959