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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 60–68.
Published: 01 May 2015
... expediency. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Katrina levees disaster misconceptions US Army Corps of Engineers Works Cited Campanella Richard . 2006 . Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics before the Storm . Lafayette : Center for Louisiana Studies . Dunbar J. B. Britsch...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 56–59.
Published: 01 May 2015
... on the same day), that it was the river that flooded the city (the river levees remained intact), that the corruption of the local levee boards was responsible for the negligence of the levees (it was an engineering failure on the part of the US Army Corps of Engineers), that Katrina was a storm so...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 83–91.
Published: 01 May 2015
... duffs. Control your own destiny’” (Eaker and Zurik 2006). Nagin’s exhortation was telling. Even though the flooding of the city was by then clearly seen as the result of shoddy design, construc- tion, and maintenance of the city’s levees —​the responsibility of the federally managed US Army...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 169–175.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and the French camouflet, an explosive device designed to ward off enemy miners by making their tunnels collapse. While it has been tactically deployed by guerrilla fighters for centuries, the widespread use of camouflage by national armies did not commence until World War I, when modern warfare called...