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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"generals"”.
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Gorbachev, the Generals and the "Turn to the Right"
… in a power struggle. The conservatives, the generals, have gained influence and are now in a position to slow down but not derail the new thinking diplomacy. The Turn to the Right signals an end to the dramatic breakthrough diplomacy of 1989 and 1990 but is not a harbinger of a return to old …
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Understanding Women Leaders in a Male-Dominated Profession: A Study of the United States Marine Corps' Women Generals
… three themes consistent across the women generals: a willingness to settle for short-term career goals, the privileging of their Marine identity, and a strong affinity with the core values of the Corps’ culture. Beyond this, the women generals attributed their success to an array of …
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Army Reserve General Officers and Captains of Industry -- A Study In Developing Dual Career Readiness
… dual executive careers as Army Reserve generals and captains of industry. This narrative study describes the pathways to becoming a general officer, risks of pursuing dual military and civilian careers, managing the journey, skills of successful executives, and structural and cultural …
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Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.
… no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their background, motivations, and military careers, a more accurate perspective regarding the Mexican general officer corps' performance during the war can be obtained by the reader. It is the …
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Marine Corps Joint Officer Management policy and O-7 Joint Service Officer requirements
… Currently, the number of JSO qualified Brigadier Generals is just above 50 percent. Over the next year's time, the Marine Corps must reach 100 percent JSO qualification of Brigadier Generals. A follow-on study is needed to forecast O-7 continuation rates utilizing specific, career progression data …
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… French military methods, taking inspiration from generals like Turenne and Luxembourg, employing aggressive French battle tactics, and learning his concept of ‘total war for limited objectives’ from French writers like the Marquis de Feuquières. Frederick also sought to surpass the ‘personal rule’ …
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‘Soldier-Diplomat: a reassessment of Sir Henry Wilson’s influence on British Strategy in the last 18 months of the Great War’
… one of the most controversial British Army generals of the Great War. A colourful character in life, he attracted admirers and detractors in equal measure; in death, his reputation was ruined by a biography based on his personal diaries. The Wilson of the historiography is, at best, a …
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Fatigue's Influence on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance in a Military Simulation of Combat
… military simulation game Command and Conquer: Generals™ for three hours. They were assigned to either the easy or difficult level of the game. Extended task performance led to an increase in feelings of fatigue. However, it also led to a decrease in mental workload. Contradictory findings were …
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The Break-up of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army, 1865
… River, the surrender of armies led by Generals Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston ended the war. After a significant decline in morale and discipline throughout the spring of 1865, soldiers of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department chose to break-up and return home. As …
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Determining the most appropriate criteria for selection to Brigadier General.
… expert opinion data of 327 Brigadier and Major Generals, Univariate and multivariate statistical techniques were used to analyze questionnaire data and to suggest selection criteria. The final selection criteria determination was based on results from principle component analysis, variable …
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Playing with good and evil : videogames and moral philosophy
… on three games (Fable, Command & Conquer: Generals, and The Punisher), clarifying how the design of each could be modified to address a specific philosophical issue.
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Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122
… a specific phenomenon of border-crossing, by generals and officials as well as commoners. By focusing on these border-crossing incidents and their repercussions in government, sometimes at decision-making level, this thesis tries to portray a more detailed and accurate of the Song-Liao border, …
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Class Roots: The Genesis of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1966 - 1993
… came about following the release of the Attorney Generals Advisory Committee (AGAC) Report in 1990. None of the current narratives explain how this Report pulled together so many divergent interests where previous attempts had failed. My thesis answers this question with reference to the …
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"""That meddlesome body"": The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War"
… partisanship with its attacks on Democratic generals, and damaged public morale. In addition, the Committee's activities created an unhealthy precedent for future unwarranted and irresponsible congressional interference in executive matters.
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Affirmative action and the interim constitution
… racism and inequality known to mankind. The generals who escorted him safely onto the podium will never again receive their orders from a chain of command borne in an exclusively white caucus under the guise of parliamentary sovereignty. The new presidential authority is contained in an …
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Back to Square One: Understanding the Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces
… army controlled a significant portion of it. Top generals saw the increasing nature of liberalization and privatization of the economy as an insurmountable contest between capital-rich firms and a bogged down military bureaucracy. The influx of businessmen and non-military appointments of …
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Judicial deference to the executive branch at the State Court level
… were the states that have had Solicitor Generals for a significant amount of time before the analysis. States where the office was created I between the two time periods do experience heightened deference, but at a lower level. This paper seeks to fill the gap in judiciary research where …
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How was Richard Haldane able to reform the British Army? An historical assessment using a contemporary change management model
… so, he gained the support of the reform-weary Generals in the War Office.
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Religion, Slavery and Secession: Reflections on the Life and Letters of Robert Hall Morrison
… owner and father-in-law to three Confederate generals; yet he opposed slavery and often spouted anti-secessionist rhetoric. He preferred living in the Northern states. However, at the time of North Carolina's secession, he opted to stay in the South. Morrison expressed sentiments in letters …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
… and al-Buḥturī’s panegyrics for the Turkic generals Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf and Khumārawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn. In contrast to the dominant image of the Turks in the ʿAbbāsid period, praise writing associates the Turks and individuals labelled as Turkic with the idealised values of the elite …
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