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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Modern Warfare"”.
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Deception in Modern Warfare and Strategic Affairs
This thesis examines the use of deception in warfare and strategic affairs in the past 30 years. The thesis uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative assessments to determine the effectiveness of using deception to achieve surprise in battle, how successful achieving surprise is as an …
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Photography and the Falklands Conflict : Homeric Heroism in Modern Warfare
… that the war was over remarkably quickly, and by modern standards, where the war in Afghanistan is projected to last anything between 10 and 20 years, it was. It has often been described as Britain's last colonial war, the last in a long line of small conflicts that expanded and defended the …
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The vision we share: Identification of Call of Duty's militaristic messages
… thesis is a rhetorical analysis of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare using a Burkean analysis and a critical analysis to determine that Modern Warfare’s use of the first-person perspective to invite players to identify with the messages presented within the gameplay and story of the series. Using Ian …
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AUGMENTED REALITY SPATIAL CUES FOR TARGET ACQUISITION
… increasing complexity and dynamic character of modern warfare is generating numerous time-critical decision points that can exceed the cognitive capacity of the average Marine. By reducing extraneous cognitive demands through the use of augmented reality (AR), warfighters may gain more bandwidth …
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DRONE SWARMING TACTICS IN A CONTESTED ENVIRONMENT
… swarms have emerged as a defining feature of modern warfare. This thesis uses agent-based simulation to examine how force composition, weapon technology, and decoy tactics shape the outcomes of swarm attacks. The model pits a layered defender equipped with a mix of weapon and sensor systems to …
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Development of a test mechanism for analyzing force attrition methodologies within aggregated combat simulations
… inherent lack of representative combat data for modern warfare scenarios, one effective method for determining the required parameter estimates is to thoroughly analyze the output from a stochastically based high- resolution combat model. It is this development of attrition parameters process, …
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Information technology competencies for Navy enlisted personnel
… is gaining momentum as the emerging force in modern warfare. To date, much has been spent on new hardware but training and education for this new hardware has been overlooked. In particular, the U.S. Navy has embarked on an ambitious modernization program known as Information Technology for …
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By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror
… jolted international humanitarians. With modern warfare evolving towards unconventional warfare, the notion of interrogation has become more controversial and linked hand-in-hand with torture methods. This study is not trying to make a case for torture, but instead seeks to provide …
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Imagining Peace and War: Plymouth 1918-1939
After the trench warfare of the Great War the development of aerial warfare and widespread urbanisation meant that military doctrine in any future conflict would likely bring unprecedented death and destruction to non-combatants. Therefore, war prevention became the most important foreign policy …
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The law of the sea: the United States, Canada and the deep seabed
… for the Falklands is indicative of the nature of modern warfare between Third World countries. It shows that the gap in military capabilities between Third and First World countries is narrowing significantly. Modern warfare between a First and Third World country is no longer a 'walk over' for …
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Organized crime in the United States organizational analogies for counterinsurgency strategy
As modern warfare moves towards the lower end of the intensity spectrum, conventional forces are placed in unconventional roles outside their traditional high intensity military specialty. By showing that there are analogies between organized crime and insurgencies, further studies can be conducted …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… war poems sculpt a nightmarish vision of trench warfare, one which enables Western audiences to consider the suffering of the English soldiers and the brutality of modern warfare nearly a century after the armistice. However, critical readings of Owen’s canonized corpus, including “The Show” …
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Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914
… to analyse and explain how men endure in modern warfare, have been juxtaposed with numerous archival and secondary sources. Other issues concerning the first phase of the GSWA invasion, neglected or ignored in earlier historiography, have also received attention. These include the …
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Developing Pattern and Anomaly Detection Methods in Influence Campaigns
… are a prominent psychological component of modern warfare. Recent historic events including the 2016 US election, the 2021 Myanmar Coup, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 have catapulted Department of Defense (DoD) interest in modeling and predicting outcomes of military and …
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Plans and planes: United States Army aviation in American colour-coded war plans, 1920-1939
… air power had become an integral element of modern warfare. During the interwar period, United States Army war planning staffs understood the essentiality of air power in any future war and intentionally integrated it into the colour-coded war plans created and maintained between 1920 and …
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Military transformation on the Korean Peninsula : technology versus geography
… and geographically advantageous defenders in modern warfare. Finally, by examining possible conflict scenarios of US-ROK alliance and North Korea, this research will seek to prove that contemporary military technology alone would not guarantee military success and deterrence against North …
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"Smile and Carry On:" Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, 1914-1918
… War because cavalry still had a role to play in modern warfare. This thesis addresses the expected role of Cavalry in the Great War, and the role that Canadian Cavalry was able to play on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. Cavalry was an arm of exploitation and protection. The primary …
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Send in the Reserves! The Development and Significance of the Reserve Dilemma in Military History
… the rising complexity, speed, and lethality of warfare over the last century challenged the viability of industrial era reservist personnel and training policies, which many states retain today. Such policies have largely proven incapable of providing reservists with the time and resources to …
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