The definitive book, in fact the only book, written in cooperation with the US Department of Defense on a little-known government war-risk insurance program. The real story of a team of roughly 100 professionals across several agencies who fought the worldwide insurance industry, airlines, air operators, sealift owners and operators, bureaucracy, Congress, and sometimes even themselves to save taxpayers over $1 billion while providing more mission flexibility for the US Military. For his part, the author as a senior attorney on the United States Transportation Command staff, wrote new laws and pushed them through the bureaucracy to obtain approval by Congress and the President to enable the United States to do what no other country in the free world can do: respond to armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters anywhere in the world simultaneously. Using actual examples, this textbook is written for practitioners, operators, planners and history buffs who enjoy everything from emergency evacuations from nuclear power plant meltdowns to buzzards, kite attacks and kids with rocks.
