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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"National Army"”.
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The Irish Army in the Congo
The National Army (N.A.) of the Free State (F.S.) had as its forerunner the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Many who fought in the Anglo Irish war with the I.R.A. continued their service with the N.A. in the civil war of 1922/3. Although there was heavy recruitment to the NA at the start of the …
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Assassination of Michael Collins: A Revival in Gaelic Nationalism
… Collins, the leader of the Irish Republican Army and then the National Army, and the rise in Gaelic Nationalism across Ireland after his death. Ireland struggled to gain independence from England throughout history because England controlled all aspects of Irish life. It was not until 1916, …
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Helmand: The U.S. Marines and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2010-2012
… units in 2014 did not bode well for the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Helmand, the period in question proved the ability of the Marine Corps to effectively carry out doctrinal principles. Through an examination of command chronologies and oral history interviews, this thesis shows the process in …
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The afterlife of Michael Collins: commemoration, biography and historiography, 1922-1973
… and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State’s National Army. The political and psychological tensions that arose as a result of the Treaty caused intense controversy and led to the Irish Civil War which claimed the life of Collins. Now, approaching both the centenary of his death, and the …
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… groups: the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional/National Army of Liberation, 1963) and the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola/Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, 1956). The goal is to provide an interpretation of the rise, transformations and uses of specific forms of …
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El modelo constitucional de fuerzas armadas
… determines too much the format or model of army in Spain and, in general, in the constitutional States. This thesis needs a hard reasoning and argumentation, given that is has not been at history, even not in the present. For that, in the "First book" the author analyzes the historical, …
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Patterns as Documents and Drawings: An artistic exploration of tailoring patterns as historical documents and drawings abstracting the human form. An analysis from the perspective of a creative art practitioner
… worn by officers of the British Raj held at the National Army Museum was identified for this research; these uniforms were closely examined, handled and drawn in situ. The drawings were placed next to military patterns from different sources and scrutinized using a case-study method. The analysis …
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The Impact of Ex British Soldiers on The Irish Volunteers And Free State Army 1913-1924
… the service of ex-British soldiers in the Irish Army and to examine some of their experiences during the period 1913-1924 with particular emphasis on the Irish Civil War. There was a constant utilisation of ex-British servicemen for their skills and also their intimidation by republicans …
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The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943.
… to develop the main arguments. These include the National Archives, the Churchill Archives Centre, the Liddell-Hart Centre for Military History, the National Army Museum, John Rylands Centre, Imperial War Museum at London and Duxford and London and the Tank Museum Archives at Bovington. The …
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Agitations, Riots and the Transitional State in Calcutta, 1945-50
… conviction of Captain Rashid Ali of the Indian National Army. However, just six months later, Calcutta witnessed massive communal riots. The Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946 set off the chain of communal violence across the subcontinent that ultimately precipitated the partition of British …
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The Naval Forces of the Irish State, 1922-1977
… naval forces, generally in times of grave national emergency but little of their history is known to the wider public. Although most are aware of the Irish Naval Service, which came into being after the Second World War, few know of its predecessors. The Coastwatching and Marine Service, …
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Accountability for mass atrocities : the LRA conflict in Uganda
… conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group and the national army, the Uganda People’s Defence Armed Forces (UPDF). The government of Uganda has initiated various accountability measures that include international and domestic prosecutions, truth telling, …
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La evolución del concepto de enemigo en las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia: de Carl Schmitt a la Revolución Molecular
La tesis analiza la evolución del concepto de "enemigo" en las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia, tomando como base teórica los planteamientos del filósofo Carl Schmitt, especialmente en obras como El concepto de lo político (Schmitt, 2009), La teoría del partisano (Schmitt, 2002) y su crítica a la …