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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"battlefields"”.
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SOF regional engagement: an analysis of the effectiveness of current attempts to shape future battlefields
The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question of how effective are current theater engagement / security cooperation plans at supporting US national interests. The examination of effectiveness focused on two theaters as case studies during the years 1998 through September 2001. This …
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Large-Scale Archaeological Prospection of Early Modern Battlefields: Geophysical Surveys at the Battlefield of Waterloo
… the archaeological investigation of early modern battlefields. This is explored using the Napoleonic battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium (1815) as a case study. Methodological focus is on the use of near- surface geophysical methods measuring electromagnetic soil properties (primarily …
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The Ethnography of On-Site Interpretation and Commemoration Practices: Place-Based Cultural Heritages at the Bear Paw, Big Hole, Little Bighorn, and Rosebud Battlefields
… and maintain the sacredness of four historic battlefields in Montana: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument; Nez Perce National Historical Park- Bear Paw Battlefield; Nez Perce National Historical Park- Big Hole National Battlefield; and Rosebud Battlefield State Park. This research …
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The Ethnography of On-Site Interpretation and Commemoration Practices: Place-Based Cultural Heritages at the Bear Paw, Big Hole, Little Bighorn, and Rosebud Battlefields
… and maintain the sacredness of four historic battlefields in Montana: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument; Nez Perce National Historical Park- Bear Paw Battlefield; Nez Perce National Historical Park- Big Hole National Battlefield; and Rosebud Battlefield State Park. This research …
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Understanding Attitudes and Perceptions For Civil War Battlefield, Interpretive Images
… as interpretive media, particularly at historic battlefields to enhance the visitor experience and understanding. However, empirical studies of the characteristics of Civil War images that can influence visitors\' experience are limited. Using historic images of Civil War landscapes, this study …
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Battlefield tourism: strategies and tactics for the development and tourism planning of the battlefields of the war of Independence/peninsular war in Spain and Portugal
… to the study of the touristic development of the battlefields of the period between 1808 and 1814, known in Portugal as the Peninsular War and in Spain as the War of Independence, part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. Our main objective is to contribute to fill an important gap in the awareness and …
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The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929
… of the First World War. It asks who visited the battlefields during the conflict, what impressions they formed, how they communicated these to others, and what influence these initial views had on post-war conceptions of the battlefield landscape. It explores how post-war visitors were guided to …
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The Lottery Colonel Blotto Game with Draws
… Our model is characterized by the number of battlefields, battlefield values that may vary across battlefields, but are symmetric across players, the distinct player shares of each battlefield value captured in the event of a draw, the potentially asymmetric budgets of the players and a …
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Distributional economic impacts of Civil War battlefield preservation alternatives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… study results indicate that preserving Civil War battlefields can have positive distributional economic impacts on the local economy, but whether or not these impacts justify battlefield preservation by the public or private sector is not established in this study. Distributional impacts are only …
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Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.
… midst of a war that was being fought not on open battlefields but in dense jungles, an atrocious event occurred in the presence of soldiers of the United States military. Over five hundred Vietnamese civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, died at the hands of U.S. soldiers on …
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Comparison of Distributed Versus Collocated Command Group Collaboration Performance
… capable of operating successfully on future battlefields requires the leveraging of digital communication capabilities to support distributed battle command. The purpose of this study is to investigate collaborative command group planning performance in traditional face-to-face (collocated) …
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"The War Comes First": Lt. Col. Francis Carroll Grevemberg and the Development of a World War II Antiaircraft Artillery Officer
… Southern France. He regularly wrote letters from battlefields to his wife Dorothy. These letters provide a important window into a young officer's feelings, thoughts and affection in the unfolding of World War II. They are documents of a soldier's emotional release during times of crises. Lt. Col. …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… the memory of the Civil War including monuments, battlefields, museum exhibits, burial rituals, historical reenactments, paintings, and dramatic performances. These mnemonic sites and rituals throughout the Great Valley of Virginia serve to circulate a dominant and mythologized reading of the …
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Energy aware techniques for certain problems in Wireless Sensor Networks
… and monitoring, enemy-intrusion in military battlefields, and so on. However, reducing energy consumption of individual sensors in such networks and obtaining the expected standard of quality in the solutions provided by them is a major challenge. In this thesis, we investigate several …
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Optimization-based allocation of force protection resources in an asymmetric environment
… multi-directional attacks; absent are the linear battlefields of past wars where logistical soldiers operated in the relative safety of the rear battlefield. This thesis explores a mathematical approach to decide how to use available resources to best protect logistical convoys. To achieve this we …
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Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact of The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems on Battle in The Pacific War
… adopted the methods and tactics they used on the battlefields of the Pacific. What currently exists in this field of study places more analytical emphasis on the cultural and strategic level impacts of the interwar years. What scholars have overlooked is the phase in which these new ideas and …
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The urbanization of insurgency : shifts in the geography of conflict
… cities, so too have insurgents increasingly made battlefields out of urban areas. This study has sought to determine the impact of urbanization on insurgency outcomes using a post-war dataset of insurgencies. It has predicted that urbanized insurgencies favor the insurgent by facilitating …
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Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks in Hostile Environments
… unattended in a hostile environment, such as battlefields. In such an environment, an adversary poses a physical threat to all the sensor nodes. An adversary may capture any node, compromising critical security data including keys used for encryption and authentication. Consequently, it is …
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The Interplay between Technology, Tactics and Organisation in the First AIF
… this thesis, I have inspected the actual battlefields in France, Belgium and Turkey. I have drawn on a broad range of published material, but the thesis is largely based upon the primary documents found in the Australian War Memorial and Australian National Archives.
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