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Showing 1 to 20 of 383 for “"Weapon"”.
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Russia's Energy Weapon
This thesis examines the Russian Federation's use of energy warfare. I analyze Russian strategic culture and national security issues to depict the Russian Federation's modus vivendi and the government's modus operandi. I explore Russian energy company Gazprom's relationship with the Russian …
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Optimizing Weapon Precision
… every soldier more lethal with their assigned weapon system (and hunters more humane with their rifles). We first discover a way to optimize the trajectory of the average soldier's bullet over a specific range in a way that can be immediately implemented with negligible impact to current …
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Peruvian weapon system acquisition process
Historically, the acquisition of a weapon systems in the Republic of Peru has been made on the basis of system effectiveness and initial acquisition cost, with little or no consideration being given to operating and support costs that will be incurred after the system is deployed in the field. Peru …
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Systems analysis: a powerful but dangerous weapon
The National Security Act of 1947, providing for the unification of the armed forces of the United States under a Secretary of Defense, initiated a series of reforms culminating with the installation of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting Concept in 1961 by Robert S. McNamara. ith budgetary control, …
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Economic incentives in aerospace weapon systems procurement
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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Story as a Weapon in Colonized America
… peoples are not mere victims. Using story as a weapon for ?decolonization,? American Indian authors have self-re-presented and, through literature, have fought for a more accurate, tribal specific presentation of self to the dominant culture. Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) authored decolonizing, …
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A comparative analysis of key business community characteristics of weapon system sustainment programs and implications for future weapon system programs
The operation and support phase of a major weapon system is one of the most costly phases in the life cycle of a program. During this phase, the key stakeholders must build a long-term sustainment strategy to make sure the program is affordable, and that the weapon system is reliable and …
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Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur
… forces and the Janjaweed have used rape as a weapon of war, in the ethnic cleansing of non-Arab tribes in the region. Rape as a weapon of war was also used to degrade, terrorize women and destroy families and communities. In Darfur women and girls were raped in front of their family members. …
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Evolutionary cluster costing for weapon system early design
… estimating the cost of designing and producing a weapon system at the early design stage. The issue is related to the particular difficulties which system designers often encounter in the absence of cost data on present system details and historically relevant cases associated with the early …
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A categorical analysis of Weapon System Accuracy Trial (WSAT) data
… last five years of Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Weapon System Accuracy Trial (WSAT) data from both the Atlantic and Pacific fleet. The analysis is conducted in an effort to provide recommendations to be applied toward future evolution of the ASW Test Program for surface ships. A statistical …
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A unique prototyping concept for missile and aviation weapon systems
… concept to support aviation and missile weapon system requirements. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command has an electrical and mechanical prototyping capability that has existed for twenty-five years, but has been geographically and functionally separated. These capabilities have …
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MONEY AS A WEAPON SYSTEM: ADOPTING CHINA'S STRATEGY IN DJIBOUTI
In 2001, Camp Lemonnier was established as the United States’ sole permanent base location in Africa and the future home of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). Along with Djibouti’s limited supply capabilities, China’s increasing …
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Weapons in the City: Weapon Use in Chicago Homicide Cases
… relationship between the use of certain types of weapons in criminal homicides by gender, race, age, victim-offender relationship, motive, location, and changes over time. Differential association and sex-role theory were utilized to argue why gender differences would occur in type of weapon used …
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Nuclear “Pork” Revisited: Organizational Imperatives and Nuclear Weapon Program Abandonment
… at least 30 countries have conducted nuclear weapon activities. Over two-thirds of those countries have abandoned their nuclear weapon activities as a matter of policy, making nuclear abandonment the dominant historical tendency. Understanding why countries abandon their nuclear weapon …
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Temporal Shifts in Weapon Focus: Comparing Retrograde and Anterograde Effects
… a criminal's face because the criminal used a weapon during the commission of the crime, this impairment is called the weapon focus effect. Literature provides two explanations for how this effect arises: some implicate the narrowing of attentional cues to the weapon during the commission of a …
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English as a weapon of power : a double-edged sword
… that can be made for using English as a weapon of empowerment. These metaphors characterize English as a "linguistic poacher" that threatens endangered language species with extinction, as a "gatekeeper" that excludes the masses from socio-economic mobility, and as a "colonizer of the …
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Heterogeneous defensive naval weapon assignment to swarming threats in real-time
… the efficient pairing of multiple defensive weapon systems to several incoming threats operating in multiple domains by providing the operator with recommended weapon-target pairings based on current defensive capabilities and threat profiles. The model consists of a pre-processing algorithm …
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Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice
<p>On August 23rd, 1996 The Declaration of Jihad was released by Osama bin Laden urging the Muslim community to heed to the call to jihad. The longest of bin Laden’s early messages, the Declaration of Jihad outlines a call to jihad against America for their continued presence in the Kingdom of …
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Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice
<p>On August 23rd, 1996 The Declaration of Jihad was released by Osama bin Laden urging the Muslim community to heed to the call to jihad. The longest of bin Laden’s early messages, the Declaration of Jihad outlines a call to jihad against America for their continued presence in the Kingdom of …
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