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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"military technology"”.
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Transfer of military technology to developing countries: the Turkish case
There is a switch from direct arms sales to military technology transfer to produce arms in the name of selfsufficiency. The value of domestic arms production at the beginning of the 1980s was about 500 times higher than that at the beginning of the 1950s. By the early 1980s, more than 50 …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… popular discourses on “techno-war”: while technology is increasingly claimed to transform the conduct of war, lived experiences of conflict still foreground human bodies as war’s main subjects and targets. Within both strategic and critical debates, the technoscientific dimension of war and …
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Reconstructing rockets--the politics of developing military technology in Brazil, India, and Israel
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1993.
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Sharing Vulcan’s Secrets: Why States Disclose Details of Advanced Military Technology to Other States
… advanced states share cutting-edge military technology – the capability to produce weapons – with other states? Technology is a key component of national power, so sharing technology means making other states more powerful. I identify technology sharing as a unique form of interstate …
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Tribal guns, tribal gunners : A study of acculturation by Maori of European military technology during the New Zealand inter-tribal musket wars
… have conducted exhaustive research into the military history of their indigenous people, the Musket Wars remain New Zealand’s least known war. The paucity of information on inter-tribal; warfare in this period is sourced in the fact that native warfare was actively discouraged by the …
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Military transformation on the Korean Peninsula : technology versus geography
… one RMA issue: the effectiveness of contemporary military technology against tough geography, based upon case studies in the Korean peninsula. The originality of the thesis is that it will provide a sound insight for potential foes’ approach to the dominant US military power (superior technology …
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Architecture as Living Memory: Building Across Borders
… present age of modern surveillance and advanced military technology however, physical walls have much less significance for the protection of present-day states and nations and have become artifacts of mostly symbolic significance. In an increasingly connected world with the potential for …
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The Interplay between Technology, Tactics and Organisation in the First AIF
… is to investigate the interplay between the technology, tactics and organisation of the First AIF. Warfare in the twentieth warfare is characterised by the presence of certain technologies that give it a distinctive nature and which first appeared in the Great War. It was in the Great War …
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Detection and Analysis Methods for unmanned aerial Vehicle Images
… in the remote sensing field. UAVs derive from military technology, but in the last few years they are establishing as reference platforms also for civilian tasks. The main advantage of these acquisition systems lies in their simplicity of use. Indeed, a UAV can be used when and where it is …
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Chinese Nuclear Policy
… of the People's Liberation Army and China's core military strategies of active defense and anti-access/area denial. Chinese nuclear policy will play a pivotal role in the future of China as it struggles to reduce the military superiority of the United States in East Asia. Innovative tactical …
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Mining masculinities in the Canadian military
… and which they negotiate, change or resist. The military has been selected as the investigative terrain because military technology--a social system comprising human and material resources--has been under-researched as a matrix of gender in the West. The conceptual framework for this study draws …
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Defense acquisition program manager as program leader : improving program outcomes through key competencies and relationship management
… with developing and acquiring state-of-the-art military technology and systems. For the past 65 years, many broad-reaching studies and commissions have endeavored to refine and overhaul the acquisition process to improve its value delivery in the form of increased capability, in less time, and …
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"Warfare, Trade, and ""Indians"" in British Literature, 1652--1711"
… European transmission of smallpox and lacked the military technology of India and Europe. Consequently, the European colonization of the Americas, and its accompanying devaluation of the native peoples, began much earlier and lasted much longer there than in India (where the British presence did …
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"Warfare, trade, and ""Indians"" in British literature, 1652-1711"
… European transmission of smallpox and lacked the military technology of India and Europe. Consequently, the European colonization of the Americas, and its accompanying devaluation of the native peoples, began much earlier and lasted much longer there than in India (where the British presence did …
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Nationalism-as-Technology and Peace in Europe, 1815-1914
… a continued research program of nationalism-as-technology and its effects. The theory's insight comes from seeing nationalism not as an ideology, but as a form of military technology. For such technologies, their effect on war depends on how widely all countries employ them. When everyone has …
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Britain's exploitation of Occupied Germany for scientific and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union
… on the Soviet Union's current and future military capability seemed a near-impossibility. Soviet high-level communications were secure against decryption. Agent networks in the USSR were very difficult to establish and of uncertain reliability. Aerial reconnaissance of warrelated targets …
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Baltarusijos užsienio saugumo politikos dinamika 2010 - 2016 metais /
… NATO now was perceived as a gateway to modern military technology and a possible partner in the future. But Belarus did not abandon its existing allies like Russia because that was not beneficial for the country. The second part of this analysis consists of the relations between Belarus and …
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Touching the Face of God: Religion, Technology, and the United States Air Force
… the United States Air Force from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. In particular, using the metaphor of the Air Force as religion helps in understanding a culture built on matters of life-and-death. This religious narrative—with the organizational roles of actors such as …
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A Risk- and Fuzzy Set-Based Methodology for Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration Military Utility Assessment Design
… U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) and derivative, rapid acquisition programs offer timely solutions to critical military needs by assessing the utility of technologies mature enough to be fielded without application of traditional, defense system …