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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"war fighting"”.
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US War Fighting Capabilities: Present and Future
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A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of System Safety Interoperability of United States Navy's Combat Systems
… placement and the use of our forces and war-fighting systems. The synergism drawn from the capabilities of the legacy complex systems enables today's war-fighting needs to be met without substantial increase in cost or resources. This synergism can be realized by the effective integration …
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Recovering Territory: The Thick Geopolitics of Demining in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Wartime Ukraine
… and entrench the territorial logic of wars by inscribing it on land. They render space dangerous, disrupt land-tenure patterns, and degrade the biosphere. Put differently ⎯ landmines kill, disable and territorialize, and remake ecologies. The removal of this violent threat to human and …
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Soviet/Russian Strategic Defenses: the Pursuit of Dominance
… age. Soviet nuclear doctrine centered on a war-fighting/damage-limiting strategy, and strategic defenses were seen as an important component of that strategy. This has not changed in the transformation of the USSR to Russia. The effectiveness of Russia's strategic defenses, despite some …
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A comparative analysis of the Army MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) AND Navy MQ-8B manpower and training requirements
… has created a unique demand for non-standard war fighting capabilities. Beginning in 2004, the U.S. Navy, in a joint effort with the U.S. Army, began jointly testing and evaluating the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take Off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV). This platform has shown …
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Accelerating government R&D with private financing
… could simultaneously improve the nation's war fighting readiness and economy. I submit that better utilization of United States Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories through alternative acquisition and development strategies can address current inefficiencies. I also suggest that …
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Fourth Generation Warfare: America's Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
Throughout the history of civilization, warfare has undergone a number of evolutions. Given societal, technological and political shifts, these evolutions have been undertaken in the hope of offsetting particular strategic advantages held by particular adversaries. As the world finds itself in the …
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The evolution of China’s nuclear weapons program and doctrine and its implications for international security
… full-spectrum deterrence posture calibrated towards limited nuclear war fighting. This breeds a spiral of insecurity vis-a-vis the US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and India, is leading to greater strategic and crisis instability and an intensified security dilemma.
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The psychological health of veterans of the 2003 Iraq war
… describes a nested cross-sectional study of Iraq War veterans who deployed in the main war-fighting period of the war (TELIC 1) and those in the UK military during the Iraq War, but who did not deploy at that time. Participants were drawn from a large UK military cohort, stratified by deployment …
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The Royal Navy and Soviet seapower, 1930-1950 : intelligence, naval cooperation and antagonism
… These were primarily characterised by pre-war suspicion of Communism and the Soviet Union, enforced wartime naval cooperation from June 1941 until the end of the Second World War and, finally, a shift towards Cold War antagonism.It is argued that the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division …
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A Mixed Method Study Of A Former Special Operations Community: Identifying Factors That Effect Cross-Cultural Competency
… culture.</p> <p>In the initial months of the war, these deficiencies were not evident; however, over the next decade, multiple cross-cultural failures in operations ranging from Afghanistan to Iraq, would have an impact on the culture of each nation, with bilateral frustration at best and …
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Examining Combat Effectiveness in Asymmetric Engagements with Balanced Forces Using the Information Age Combat Model
… superiority is translated into a tactical war-fighting advantage.</p> <p>A research gap has been identified in the investigation of networked combat force configurations in the realm of asymmetric engagements. Specifically, the research question is, how should an information age combat …
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Military Institutions and State Formation in the Hellenistic Kingdoms
… kingdoms. The kingdoms emerged after years of war-fighting, and the capacity to wage war remained central to state formation in the Hellenistic Age (323-31 B.C.). The creation of institutions and recruitment of populations sufficient to field large armies took a great deal more time and …
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Playing the Bad Guy: How Organizations Design, Develop, and Measure Red Teams
… unified combatant command; the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) and its red-team detachment; and a Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Homeland Security and Defense, National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC). Two basic types of red teams are identified from the data with a …