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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"National Defense"”.
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The drug industry in national defense
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Developing United States Space Assets For National Defense
… is becoming an increasingly important part of national economies as well as central to a state's national security requirements. Commercial industries and governments are utilizing space assets to provide many new technologies and services. Improved communications, weather information, and the …
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Inhabiting cycles of maritime obsolescence : redirecting the National Defense Reserve Fleet
Defense is in a state of obsolescence. The metrics of risk have changed from threat of military invasion to that of weather. Infrastructure is in a state of transition. The Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) has dwindled from 2,700 ships in 1946 to only 140 in 2013. …
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The continued transition of the South African National Defense Force: Reserve Force integration and utilization
… which included integration of former homeland defense units, the South African Defense Force (SADF), Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA - a military arm of the PAC), and the incorporation of Urn Khonto we Sizwe (MK - militant wing of the ANC) members into the new South African National …
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Japan's Preventive Strategy: Secure the World—the National Defense Program Guidelines in and After FY 2010
<p>The Japanese government is now reviewing the National Defense Program Guidelines in and after FY 2005 (NDPG 04), and this review will be completed by the end of this year. Even though NDPG 04 provides Japan's security and defense policy vision to FY 2014, the government nevertheless has decided …
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National Defense University: an integrated higher defense educational institute for democratization of civil-military relations in Nepal
… relations (CMR). In the absence of a higher defense education platform-like the National Defense University (NDU) in the United States-unequal levels of professional competencies among the civilian officials, military leaders, and senior officers of Nepal’s security forces have contributed to …
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Strategic Competition and Escalation Management in the 21st Century: Russian Hybrid Warfare and China’s Rise
<p>The U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) and the unclassified version of the U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) both focus on China and Russia as preeminent challenges for the United States. The NDS states specifically, “Long-term strategic competitions with China and Russia are the principal …
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The National Security Personnel System: Department of Defense civilian personnel structures and the U.S. legislative process
… 2003, the Bush Administration submitted the Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act to 108th U.S. Congress for review and enactment. This act proposed broad changes for the Department of Defense to successfully meet new challenges and new threats for the 21st century. This paper will …
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Spatial Distribution of Chinese Language Education and Historical Development of Chinese Language Pedagogy in Higher Education in the United States
… by two federal sponsored language programs: the National Defense Education Act in 1958 and the Chinese Language Flagship program in 2006. The essay traces the sociopolitical factors that pushed Chinese language pedagogy education through several distinct stages over the past century.</p>
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For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War
… By examining this relationship in terms of national defense policy, one can see not only that the Reagan administration relied on the Religious Right to gets its message out on sensitive issues like the nuclear freeze movement, but also that the Religious Right was eager to gain access to …
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National Security Personnel System (NSPS) a history of creation and enactment of the legislation authorizing its establishment
The Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Personnel System (NSPS) was enacted through the FY 2004 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed into public law by President George W. Bush on November 24, 2003. NSPS enactment served as a key pillar of DOD's ongoing transformation effort …
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OPTIMIZATION OF THE FORCE GENERATION PROCESS OF MARINE CORPS INFANTRY BATTALIONS
… necessary to accomplish the goals set in the National Defense Strategy (NDS). Current manpower assignment methods do not optimize the manning of Marine Corps infantry battalions to ensure maximum training readiness, manning, and deployability under the FGP. This thesis researches manpower …
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Simulação do colapso progressivo da seção mestra de um navio militar devido à flexão longitudinal
… combat platforms, which are described in the National Defense Strategy (NDS). Aiming at structural efficiency, this work analyzed the progressive collapse of the midship of a military vessel due to longitudinal bending designed by standard. After the validation of the boundary conditions and …
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The Career Pattern of Ndea Elementary School Counselors
… school counselors in 1965-67 under the National Defense Education Act at the University of Illinois. Also, the study is an attempt to provide information as to whether the intent of the federally-funded training program was accomplished. The major questions are as follows: (1) What was …
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Improving the parametric method of cost estimating relationships of naval ships
… methods to reduce the cost of Navy ships. A RAND National Defense Research Institute study showed many sources of cost escalation for Navy ships. Among them included characteristic complexity of modem Naval ships, which contributed to half of customer driven factors. This paper focuses on …
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Ultra-sensitive Mid-infrared Detection Using Phononic Crystal Resonator-based Oscillator
… sensing, communications, space explorations, and national defense. Existing MIR detectors are typically categorized into two major classes: (1) semiconductor photodetectors, which offer high responsivity and fast response time but typically require cryogenic cooling, and (2) thermal-based sensors, …
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Survival analysis of the modernized retirement system for the United States Marine Corps
… Modernized Retirement System introduced in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016. Specifically, this thesis determines if the Modernized Retirement System is likely to affect manpower levels. A survey was conducted within the active component of the U.S. Marine Corps to …
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Amazônia azul: o patrimônio da geopolítica brasileira no mar?.
… to situate the theoretical support of the Sea's National Defense Policy, through the review about the strategic concept of "Amazônia Azul", in the Brazilian Geopolitical tradition about the sea, with the analysis of the works of the main geopolitical thinkers in the twentieth century. This paper …
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The integration role of European defense procurement in achieving a more competitive and stronger European defense equipment market
The creation of a strong and competitive European defense equipment market out of the 28 fragmented markets of the EU member states remains an important subject of discussion in transatlantic relations today. The increasing defense capability gap between Europe and the United States continues to …
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