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Trench Warfare War Effort
1,346 wordsGallipoli truly demonstrated the view points of Australians and the effects the war had on them. A deceiving perception of the war was emphasized, forgetting the warnings and traumas which were so evident by the end of the movie. Innocence was lost before young boys even had a chance to really live their lives. Misleading propaganda and nationalism encouraged the war effort. Much could have been prevented, yet the naivete of the elders and youth alike kept the inexperienced going on for more. Mi...
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Enemy Territory Military Force
2,402 wordsYou are here: Home Education 18 th Century History Guide Extra Mon, Dec 6, 1999 Rick Brainard - your About. com Guide to: Welcome | Netlinks | Articles | Guide Bio | Search | Related | About College Forums | Chat | Events | Newsletter | Share This Site | Join Shop Now | Books | Videos | Jobs | Shopping About by General Carl von Clausewitz TRANSLATED BY COLONEL J. J. GRAHAM { 1874 was 1 st edition of this translation. 1909 was the London reprinting. } HAVING in the foregoing chapter ascertained t...
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Armed Force Takes Place
2,371 words... mere endurance would not be fighting; and the defensive is an activity by which so much of the enemy's power must be destroyed that he must give up his object. That alone is what we aim at in each single act, and therein consists the No doubt this negative object in its single act is not so effective as the positive object in the same direction would be, supposing it successful; but there is this difference in its favour, that it succeeds more easily than the positive, and therefore it holds...
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Brevet Major George Marching With Sherman Shermans
1,266 words... ood into Tennessee after the sacking of Atlanta. In a special field order he tells why. General Hood led his army successfully far over towards Mississippi in hopes to decoy us out of Georgia. But we were not thus to be led away by him, and preferred to lead and control events ourselves. General Thomas and Schofield, commanding departments to our rear retuned to their posts and prepared to decoy General Hood into their meshes, whilst we came on to complete the original journey. (Thorndike, 2...
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Machine Gun Young Boy
914 wordsWest Russia, World War II One winter day at dark down the artillery opened hurricane fire on the enemy's positions. Soon came the squadron and geysers of soil and curls of smoke erupted from the earth. The front enemy's dugouts were razed to the ground for the first ten minutes. White rockets occurred on the sky as though they were artificial constellations. Then the infantry began to shoot in order to destroy that which had been missed by the shells. The battle was won owing to one soldier - a ...
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Ender Told Bean Enemy Gate Is Always Open Battle
1,571 words... heir commander was the all mighty Ender Wiggin. Ender made it clear that all the spare classes the army had would be training in the battle room. He taught them how to spring off the walls and to shoot will in mid-flight. He learnt that when you " re hit, you become frozen like stone. He selected 5 toon leaders instead of the regular 4. Each toon had 8 members; Bean was in Crazy Tom's toon C. Three weeks of training and practicing Ender received his first slip under the door; it was Dragon's...
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Second World War Mein Kampf
1,651 words... ted in Mein Kampf... Mr Trevor-Roper strongly believes that Mein Kampf possessed plans that Hitler eventually attempted to carry out. Sir Robert Ensor another notable historian is also of the opinion the there was a plan embedded in Mein Kampf. The question arises is Mein Kampf simply an ideological book for Hitler or a programme with sinister intentions? Mr Trevor-Roper is strongly of the opinion as many other historians are that Mein Kampf was a blue print for German expansion and many oth...
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Harvard University Three Years
1,029 wordsWhen Mawi Asgedom was three years old he fled the war-torn country of Ethiopia with his family. He ended up in a refugee camp in Sudan where he spent three years of his life. In these camps, him and his family heard magnificent stories about a place called America. This, of course, caused them to want to move there. After about a year they were able to immigrate to Chicago, Illinois. When they arrived in Chicago they lived in a one-room motel room while an immigration office tried to find a chur...
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Battle Of Bull Run Confederate Army
549 wordsOn 29 May, 1861, Irvin McDowell was given command of the Army of the Potomac, which consisted of about 30, 000 men, who, with the exception of 700 or 800 regulars, were almost entirely raw recruits. With these troops, in response to the public demand for some immediate action, he was ordered, on 16 July, to march against the Confederate army, posted at Manassas Junction under General Beauregard. His plan of campaign had been carefully studied out, and its principal feature was to turn the enemy'...
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Air Force Effective Tool
1,140 wordsEFFECTIVENESS OF SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has access to many traditional and non-traditional dynamic elements that provide superior capabilities to collect and monitor visual, seismic, and acoustic signatures of motorized vehicles. SIGINT is the only system that can be operational and maintainable in any type of climate and terrain, which provides an advantage over the United States' (U. S. ) adversaries. The process of obtaining the intelligence starts with the collect...
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World War Ii One Of The First
1,893 wordsWar is a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between two or more political units; it is usually fought by a militia but can and has been fought by civilians ("War"). Sometimes a war can turn into total war; this involves everybody and everything; a war in which countries or nations use all of their resources to destroy another organized country's or nation's ability to engage in war. Total war has been used for centuries, but it was in the middle to late nineteenth century ...
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U S Foreign Policy U S Government
2,955 wordsPolitical Philosophy (1) The realities of post-modern era result in affecting the classical concepts of domestic and foreign policies on ever-increasing scale. This especially became apparent after events of 9 / 11, when the concept of international terrorism assumed global proportions. It became apparent for many people in U. S. and abroad that the principles of international law need to be redesigned, in order for them to be able to address the objective reality in effective manner. We can say...
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Center Of Gravity Sun Tzu
1,510 wordsClausewitz advocates attacking enemy schwerpunkt or centers of gravity. How does this compare with Sun Tzu's prioritization for attacking important elements of national power? Which theorist provides the most useful guidance for determining the object of a strategy or strategies? Introduction Clausewitz's attack of enemy centers of gravity and Sun Tzu's prioritization of attack of important elements of national power provide contrasting approaches to the development of effective strategy. These ...
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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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World War Ii Drop The Atomic Bomb
1,531 wordsWhen the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on Aug. 6 th, 1945, 70, 000 lives were ended in a flash. To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary, even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. However, the madness had just begun. That August morning was the day that heralded the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. According to Archibald MacLeish, a U. S. poet, What happened at...
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William The Conqueror Enemy Soldiers
1,369 wordsHISTORY OF CASTLES Castles were brought to Britain by William the Conqueror, when he invaded England from his homeland in France. Known as the Duke of Normandy, William invaded England in 1066 and, due to his victory in the Battle of Hastings, William was crowned the King of England, and became King William I. One of the most powerful ways for William to take control of his new kingdom, which included England, Scotland and Wales, was to have castles built throughout the land. At first, he ordere...
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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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