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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Goldwater"”.
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The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986: 30 years of acquisition reform
Thirty years after the implementation of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, congressional and military leaders are calling for a revision of the act that will posture the Department of Defense (DOD) to meet uncertain and increasingly challenging threats. This project researched the environment …
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To defeat a maverick: Foreign policy, Barry Goldwater and the 1964 presidential election
… War II presidential elections, Barry M. Goldwater's rise to Republican presidential nominee, and the contribution of foreign policy issues to the Arizonan's defeat in the 1964 presidential election. World War II and the Cold War increased the importance of foreign policy considerations in …
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The midwife and birth of conservatism in 1960: Barry Goldwater and the ascendancy of the right in the Gop
… the conservative movement and its leader, Barry Goldwater, can be viewed as, respectively, a full-fledged social movement and social movement leader. The thesis examines its subjects in a rhetorical and historical context by studying the rhetoric and historical events surrounding the ascension of …
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Knitting the Velvet Gauntlet: Goldwater-Nichols, the end of the Cold War, and the development of American defense diplomacy
… apparatus in the 1980s. In particular, the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 reconfigured the power relationships and interests of key elements of the US military thereby overdetermining the development of defense diplomacy. With this finding, this research centers …
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Presidential Strategy: Analyzing the National Security Stategies of the United States
… deficiencies in this strategy-making system. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 sought to reform the nation's defense establishment to meet the evolving needs of the Cold War; part of this included revision of strategic development. Section 603 of …
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The level and structure of power delegated to high-ranking military officials in a democracy : a case study of the United States
… to exert influence on political decisions. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 dealt with the question of how much influence the military should have, and who should exercise this influence. By strengthening the position of the Chairman of the JCS, who is the …
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Political Low Roads: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Demagoguery and the Rise of the New Right
… (Massachusetts) and Republicans McCarthy and Goldwater (Wisconsin and Arizona), thus encompassing the South, Northeast, Midwest, and West. Each subject, of course, practiced demagoguery on an individual basis. By the middle and late 1970s, however, the once-Old Right of the Republican …
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Defense policymaking: the post-cold war roles and missions debate.
… debate, and is followed by an examination of the Goldwater-Nichols Act that provides insight as to how legislators might work with or against the President and Services in reallocating service roles and missions. The current debate over service roles and missions is examined along with constraints …
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ENHANCEMENT OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS ORGANIZATION IN THE DHS
… operations forces, Operation Eagle Claw, the Goldwater-Nichols Act, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Joint Special Operations Task Force, and Australian Federal Police Specialist Response Group to seek solutions for the DHS. The results show that organizational design, …
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Biases in segmenting non-concatenative morphology
… segmentation of concatenative languages (Goldwater et al., 2009; Poon et al., 2009, et seq.); a bias towards concatenativity; and a bias against interleaving morphemes that are mixtures of consonants and vowels. I demonstrate that while computationally, the parsimony bias is sufficient to …
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The Effect of Allocated Assessment Time and Allocated Instructional Time on Student Achievement in Small, Medium, and Large School Districts in Florida
… 1926; 1936; Brophy, Rohrkemper, Rashid, & Goldwater, 1982; Carroll, 1963; Doppelt, Mehalik, Schunn, Silk, & Krysinski, 2008; Spanjers, Burns, & Wagner, 2008; Wyss, Dolenc, Kong, & Tai, 2013). The purpose of this study was to compare allocated assessment time to allocated instructional time …
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Automatic baleen whale detection and 2D localization using a network of unsynchonized passive acoustic sensors
Underwater acoustics is a powerful tool for learning about the ocean’s soniferous marine life. However, most modern acoustic sensing systems consist of expensive arrays of timesynchronized recorders which require a crewed research vessel and significant expertise to deploy, operate, and recover. …
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Automatic Baleen Whale Detection and 2D Localization Using a Network of Unsynchronized Passive Acoustic Sensors
Underwater acoustics is a powerful tool for learning about the ocean's soniferous marine life. However, most modern acoustic sensing systems consist of expensive arrays of time-synchronized recorders which require a crewed research vessel and significant expertise to deploy, operate, and recover. …
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From Rehabilitation to Punishment: American Corrections after 1945
The incarceration rate in the United States has increased dramatically in the period since 1945. How did the United States move from having stable incarceration rates in line with global norms to the largest system of incarceration in the world? This study examines the political and intellectual …
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A Tumultuous Tenure: The Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
<p>This thesis is a work that focuses on how significant the press was to the success and failure of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In the thesis, three aspects of the Johnson years are analyzed. The first chapter discusses the media's portrayal of Lyndon Johnson during the presidential campaign …