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Air Power And The Gulf War
1,895 wordsAn acknowledged aerospace historian, Mr. Richard P. Hallion is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus (1978), Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight (1988), and The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911 - 1945 (1989), while professor at the Army War College. Mr. Hallion writes Storm ove...
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17 Th Century Plymouth Colony
2,220 wordsKing Philips War (1675 - 76) is an event that has been largely ignored by the American public and popular historians. However, the almost two-year conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England stands as perhaps the most devastating war in this countrys history. One in ten soldiers on both sides were wounded or killed. At its height, hostilities threatened to push the recently arrived English colonists back to the coast. And, it took years for towns and urban centers to r...
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Ability To Make Artificial Intelligence
958 wordsArtificial intelligence (AI) is the branch of computer science concerned with programming computers to exhibit intelligent behavior (oxford dictionary). In an age where the threat of warfare is not out of the question it is not surprising that a lot of advances have been made in the field of military AI. With this increased demand for more intelligent, more dependable programs, algorithms, and expert systems to run these robots, it is obvious that the field of robotic studies is very important. ...
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The Cannon In Late Medieval Europe
800 wordsWarfare in Late-Medieval Europe went through some drastic changes with the introduction of gunpowder from China. The first military uses of gunpowder in Europe were in the form of hand-bombs, rockets, the mine, and petard. These devices augmented the traditional offensive and defensive siege tactics of the time. However, the device that became the most useful, and widely used, was the cannon. Invented by Europeans in the 14 th Century, the cannons rise to prominence was an evolutionary one, born...
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Assyrian Weapons And Warfare
1,625 wordsThe Assyrians have long been known as a ruthless and barbaric people of the ancient civilizations. While this may be true in some instances, it is not an entirely accurate view of the Empire of Assyria. The Assyrians took their warfare seriously; in fact they studied war techniques like a science (Riley, 45). The Assyrians even had special schools set up to teach sapping (military demolition of walls etc. ) and mining city walls (Riley, 45). The Assyrians were the innovators of war in their time...
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First World War Chemical Weapon
1,028 wordsThrough out time, war has been a large event upon the human life. Way back in tine man use to fight with swords over land and other titles. But, today we use explosives, such like conventional weapons. This was started when we developed technology along with war. With the combination of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter we developed gunpowder. Soon after the invention of conventional weapons, man has developed biological weapons; then chemical weapons; and lastest being the newest nuclear weapons....
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Women And Children Governor Winthrop
2,741 words... sation dates from several months after the war, it obviously did not play a part in motivating the war. ) Who killed John Oldham? The bulk of the evidence suggests what most of the participants on the English side had claimed: the Block Islanders, a tribe tributary to the Narragansetts. The question may be legitimately asked why punitive efforts were not made against the Narragansetts for the killers of John Oldham, similar to the actions taken against the Pequots for the death of Stone. Chu...
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Tactics During The Revolutionary War
1,134 wordsEric Heppen Period 7 AP American History February 1, 2000 The American Tactics of the Revolutionary War Biography and Footnotes Research Critical Analysis Historical Interpretation Technical Content Originality Style of writing Prove thesis Eric Heppen American History Term Paper December 13, 1999 Period 7 The American Tactics of the Revolutionary War Most of Europe thought that the British with their immense amount of capital, soldiers and supplies would beat the American resistance in the Amer...
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Company New York Time Of Day
1,379 words... accesses. The native people coined this new strategy called guerrilla warfare. The basis of this style of warfare is to quickly attack your enemy and run away. The Americans carefully selected their battleground and time of attack as much as possible in guerrilla warfare so that they could have every advantage possible so that they could have a chance to win. Two such instances where the time of day and choice of terrain were the complete reasons for British defeat were at Stony Point and at...
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Princeton Princeton University Art Of War
2,691 wordsStrategic works of Clausewitz and Jomini shaped the development of maritime strategy. Clausewitz and Jomini developed general strategic principles that were later applied by naval strategists developing modern maritime tactics. Before considering modern maritime strategy, the paper must set the stage for the intellectual, technological, and social developments. Outline Introduction Discussion Jomini's ideas and background Clausewitz ideas and background Jomini's and Clausewitz's Influence on Mah...
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand First World War
2,849 wordsCauses of World War I The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning of June 28, 1914, while traveling in a motorcade through Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was chosen as ...
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Long Range Front Line
1,540 wordsWhen the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various work saving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). ...
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Plants And Animals Mode Of Production
4,496 wordsAnthropologist Marvin Harris in known for his strong conviction based on cultural materialism. He writes widely and is famous for his books, which appeal to the popular masses. His fundamental belief is that the means of production and reproduction cause other aspects of culture such as organization or art. He goes through a causal chain which can all be relate to the urges to eat and reproduce. Although this is a highly simplified way to describe his theory of cultural materialism most of his w...
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Nobel Prize Chemical Warfare
1,487 wordsThe name Fritz Haber has long been associated with the well-known process of synthesizing ammonia from its elements. While primarily known for developing a process which ultimately relieved the world of dependence on Chilean ammonia, this twentieth century Nobel prize winner was also involved in the varying fortunes of Germany in World War I and in the rise to power of the Nazi regime. Haber was born on December 9, 1868 in Prussia. He was the son of a prosperous German chemical merchant and work...
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Medieval Warfare Heavy Armor
853 wordsMedieval Medieval Warfare Medieval Warfare Medieval warfare was very brutal. They would gather their men. Who could be anyone from a footman to a knight. To me I think I might have wanted to be a knight so I could use the horses weight and speed to mow down people that I went against. The battles were fierce and with large numbers. The person that had the most people usually won the battle. Most battles were fought over land. Or feuds that two people had. After the battle the winning side would ...
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U S Navy U S Forces
1,721 wordsThe JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force) Japan is an island country surrounded by water. This means that the threat to Japan always comes from the sea. Japan also relies heavily on other countries for the supply of natural resources that are indispensable to national existence. Over 90 percent of imports are transported through sea routes. Taking into account the factors of geographical and economic features, the main mission of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is to defend t...
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World Trade Center Chemical And Biological
3,864 wordsIntroduction It was another calm early morning on the subway train. Many of the passengers were napping on their way to work. The train slowed to a stop to allow more passengers on, then sped along to its destination, the central government dist right in Tokyo. Many of the passengers found it strange that a man who got on at the last stop was wearing sunglasses, but soon dismissed it remembering how safe the subways and their homeland have always been. Well, they were mistaken. The man with the ...
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Game Was Played Including But Not Limited
2,628 wordsThe Maya called it Pok-ta-pok. The Aztec called it Tlachtli. In Puerto Rico it was called Based. Though may cultures had it, and although they called it different things it was still the ball game. It is difficult to tell exactly what the Mesoamerican ball game was. Of course it was a game played with a rubber ball that weighed any where from six to ten pounds. The object of the game was to score points, more points than your opponent. The players had to bounce the ball to the place to score poi...
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Religious Beliefs Double Edged
1,655 wordsDuring the period when the Celts existed, which is approximately 800 BC 400 AD, they were just a little tribe compared to other large civilizations such as the Romans and Greeks. They still managed to conquer many regions and prove victorious in most of their battles. Who were these Celts that survived numerous struggles? Where did they originate? What kind of social structure did they have? What kinds of beliefs did they have? What sort of weapons and armor did they use in battle? What were som...
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Play An Important Role Schools Of Thought
1,108 wordsTo prevent and resolve violent conflict we must understand the sources and logic of war. Two schools of thought currently dominate thinking on the causes of contemporary conflict. The first sees violence as a response to a range of grievances including systematic discrimination and human rights violations, inequalities in wealth and political power, or a scarcity of resources, particularly where these fall along existing social cleavages such as ethnicity or religion. The second characterizes wa...
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