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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"military elites"”.
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Elite Status in the PRC: Its formation and maintenance
… the CCP confirms elite status. The political, military, and commercial elites form the membership of the national leadership bodies of the CCP and the PRC government, and as such, they hold the most influence. The political elites hold the most status and prestige. Other elites exist, namely in …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
… examines the roles that powerful political and military elites, newspaper editors and Hollywood executives, and ordinary citizens – equal players in a game larger than themselves – assumed throughout the evolution of submerged warfare from 1914 to 1991. In each period, cultural discourse about …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
… examines the roles that powerful political and military elites, newspaper editors and Hollywood executives, and ordinary citizens - equal players in a game larger than themselves - assumed throughout the evolution of submerged warfare from 1914 to 1991. In each period, cultural discourse about …
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Building on Sand: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and State Formation in South Sudan
… interactions they created among the politico-military elites of the SPLM/A with a particular focus on period between 1983 and 2013. The thesis departs from numerous existing studies on South Sudan, which either focus on ethnic or elite conflict during the civil war and after the 2005 …
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Beyond the Rubicon: Command and Control in Regional Nuclear Powers
… to the political regime, and the level of military organizational autonomy. This framework generates specific predictions for command and control outcomes in regional nuclear powers and identifies the conditions under which each variable influences command and control systems.</p> <p>Third, …
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The Elite of the Elites: the U.S. Marine Raider Battalions, 1942-1944: A Case Study in Elite Military Organizations
… a unique case study in the nature of elitism in military cultures. This thesis examines the unique circumstances surrounding the creation of the Raiders, their rise to fame, and sudden fall from grace, concluding that the operational necessities of the late war period converged with the on-going …
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Human resource management practices and national culture: Empirical evidence from Pakistan.
This study examined impact of national culture on human resource management (HRM) functioning in present-day Pakistan.