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...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17...

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... Edited by Karl P. Magyar, PhDConstantine P. Danopoulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear... ...oulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear challenge / editors, Karl P. Magyar, Constantine P. Dan... .... p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Prolonged war. 2. Protracted conflicts (Military science) 3. Africa—History, Milit... ...-32131 CIPISBN 1-58566-056-6 First Printing October 1994 Second Printing July 2001 ... ...inting July 2001 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic fr... ...1 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic freedom and the a... ... . . . . . . 1 Karl P. MagyarIran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . 17 M. A. Shahriar Shirkhani and Con... ...he first masterful account of a prolongedwar, recording the vicissitudes of battles as they changed thefortunes of societies locked in a struggle whic... ...n during the 1980s, employingfull-conventional weapons and tactics in their battles. Andearly in 1990, Charles Taylor’s rebel forces made surprisingly...

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...Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 /  China and Tibet: 1950-1991 /  Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece)...

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...The years of World War I, 1914-1918, were years of change for Canada. Canada made a place for itself in world affairs, and the country found its stride. Women in Canada too found their stride, making significant contributions...

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...Preface Most accounts of the 1914-18 war, commonly referred to afterward as the “Great War,” the “war to end all wars,” as though such a disaster could or would ever be repeated, focus on the political causes and horrifying loss of life in the bom...

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... Farmerettes DedicationThis book is dedicated to the memory of Robert Thomas Staton, 1932-2004. Husband, father, grand... ... Farmerettes DedicationThis book is dedicated to the memory of Robert Thomas Staton, 1932-2004. Husband, father, grandfather, fem... ...nist, friend. iiForewordTruth has long been recognized as the first casualty of their talents was desperate, they still had to... ..., friend. iiForewordTruth has long been recognized as the first casualty of their talents was desperate, they still had to pus... ... iiForewordTruth has long been recognized as the first casualty of their talents was desperate, they still had to push againstconfli... ...d to push againstconflict, so it is not surprising that representations of war deep-seated discrimination to expand their roles. In thehave so oft... ...rs of women fought family law inequities,were at the heart of our national war efforts, and were broke down higher education barriers, and prop... ...her see their men again was to vote for the Union government and battles, and the casualties had to be replaced. One important conscri... ...Archives, as a memorial to Canadians who died in the war. Mary focused on battles where Canadian soldiers had fought Unfortunately, in spite o...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE KOREAN WAR, 25 JUNE–25 JULY 1950 . . . . . .5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 2 MARCH–1 APRIL 1965 . . . 27 Notes . ....

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...Accounts of seizing the tactical or operational initiative abound. At the strategic level of war, however, initiative receives only transitory mention. Authors and military professionals often assume a common understanding of strategi...

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... The New TerrorismThe Nature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF ... ... The New TerrorismThe Nature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF Sc... ... The New TerrorismThe Nature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF School... ...ature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULT... ...ajor, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, M... ... iii Abstract This study defines the nature of the war on terrorism by assessing the chang-ing nature of terrorism itse... ... is not that. Supposedly, one of the factors in declaring thistype of war for the first time in history is the notion that there is a “newterrorism.” ... ... strategy . . . Therefore I say: Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. ... ..., the Sunnis were busy fighting the Afghan war whilethe Shiites were fighting the battles of Lebanon. Hizb’Allah carried outnumerous hijackings, kidna...

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...I: A Miracle of Elegance & Grace II: Acceptance & Division III: Service & Glory IV: Commitment & Notoriety V: Good Words and Works VI: Chance & Change VII: Windows & Memorials VIII: Dignity & Daring IX: A Willing & Ge...

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...THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN One Hundred Fifty Years The FIRST ... ... OF BROOKLYN One Hundred Fifty Years The FIRST U N IT A R IA N CHURCH of ... ... OF BROOKLYN One Hundred Fifty Years The FIRST U N IT A R IA N CHURCH of ... ... The FIRST U N IT A R IA N CHURCH of BrooklynONE HUNDRED EIETY YEARS A History ... ...E HUNDRED EIETY YEARS A History Olive Hoogenboom 1987, The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn The symbol used on the title page, ... ... Rev. Samuel Longfellow 45 • The First Church and Farley 50 • The Civil War and Rev. N.A. Staples 52 • Farley's Ministry Ends 54Chapter Three ... ...• Columbia House 173 • Settlement Life 175 Settlement Staff 182 • World War I 192 • White's Passing 195C h a pter S ix Chance & Change ... ... number attending vespers had dropped markedly.Using the imagery of recent battles, Putnam urged “genuine Unitarians whoknow what they believe” to “st... ...g it, the leader’splace.” In that “war of giants” in which “his words were battles,” he mollifiedthe “harsh creeds” of Calvinism, for he found no supp...

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... Air Force Research InstituteJohn A. Shaud, Gen, PhD, USAF, Retired, DirectorSchool of Advanced Air and Space Studies Gerald S. Gorman, Col, PhD... ... RESEARCH INSTITUTEAir Superiority at Red Flag Mass, Technology, and Winning the Next War Joseph W. Locke Lieutenant Col... ... INSTITUTEAir Superiority at Red Flag Mass, Technology, and Winning the Next War Joseph W. Locke Lieutenant Colonel, USA... ...ging DataLocke, Joseph W. Air superiority at Red Flag : mass, technology, and winning the next war / Joseph W. Locke. p. ; cm. – (Drew paper, 1... ...Locke, Joseph W. Air superiority at Red Flag : mass, technology, and winning the next war / Joseph W. Locke. p. ; cm. – (Drew paper, 1941-3785 ... ...ir power—United States. 2. Air warfare—Mathematical models. 3. Fighter pilots—Training of—United States—Statistics. 4. Eagle (Jet fighter plane). I. ... ...apt for their own survival and attempt to alterthe balance of power in their favor. The first step in the process,developing counter tactics, is easil... ...ver the other.The variable character of warfare and the unique temperamentof individual battles ensure the irrelevance of either a checklistmethodolog... ...–40, theGerman government did not increase aircraft production toprepare for the larger battles ahead. 8 Instead, “the Germanswere sure that their tec...

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...In his book The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, Charles Griffith makes a major contribution in detailing the role played by General Hansell from his early days as an instructor at the Air Corps Tact...

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...1 THE PROBLEMS OF AIRPOWER . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2 THE EARLY YEARS: EDUCATION AND ACTS .23 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3 PLANNING . . . . . . . . ....

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...Lt Col Thomas D. Torkelson claims that the inability of the United States to achieve its stated political objectives in its global war on terror (GWOT) reflects its flawed kinetic-centric military strategy. This study erects a framework of effectiveness utilizing...

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...Factors Reshaping Strategies and Missions Maj Gen Charles D. Link, USAF Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Air Power in the New Security Environment . . .9 Secretary of the Air Force Donald B . Rice Air Power in US Military Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Dr EdwardN. Luttwak The...

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...DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v ABOUT THE AUTHORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . .xvii Essays Airpower in World War I, 1914–1918 . . . . . . .1 Robin H...

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...Escalation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 Hezbollah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 The War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 4 By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 5 Civilian Damage in Lebanon . . . . . . .75 6 Targeting for Effect . . . . . . . . . . .105...

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...A Kurt Vonnegut's fictional character once wrote a book titled "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" The book itself is rather short, consisting of one word and a period: "Nothing."4 Given indeed this experience, given the ever-growing number of technological threats and potential b...

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...CONTENTS Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 / China and Tibet: 1950-1991 / Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece) • The So...

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...Inside frontcover 6/1/06 11:19 AM Page 1 Bombing the European Axis Powers A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber... ...1 Bombing the European Axis Powers A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945 ... ... Diane ClarkNewFrontmatter 5/31/06 1:42 PM Page i Bombing the European Axis Powers A Historical Dig... ...European Axis Powers A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–194... ...phical references and index. ISBN 1-58566-148-1 1. World War, 1939-1945––Aerial operations. 2. World War, 1939-1945––Aerial o... ... operations––Statistics. 3. United States. Army Air Forces––History––World War, 1939- 1945. 4. Great Britain. Royal Air Force––History––World W... ...nowledgments I thank the many people who made this book possible. First, my wife and family whose support gave me the strength and ... ... night fighter force began the first of a series of electromagnetic battles. Lighting the target presented another technical challenge... ...ore, the reader might do well to conceive of Bomber Command’s great battles in 1943—the Ruhr, Ham- burg, and Berlin—as extended campaign...

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...Samuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the Continental Army after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844) The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1845/46) Desertion Handbill by Juan Soto (1847) "The War with Mexico" North Star Edit...

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...on http://www.historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html# Table of ContentsSamuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the... ...m/indextrue.html# Table of ContentsSamuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the ContinentalArmy after the Mutinie... ...e Suppression of Insubordination in the ContinentalArmy after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844)The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1845/46)Desertion... ...of Insubordination in the ContinentalArmy after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844)The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1845/46)Desertion Handbill by J... ... Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1845/46)Desertion Handbill by Juan Soto (1847)"The War with Mexico" North Star Editorial (1848)Address to the New England Conv... ...ouglass (1849)Four Documents on Disaffection in the South During the Civil War (1864/5)Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People Of Massachu... ...ike Against War by Helen Keller (1916)"The Subject Class Always Fights the Battles" by Eugene Debs (1918)Eugene Debs' Statement to the Court Upon Bein... ...al given by the officer (which was the wave of his pocket handkerchief)the first platoon of ten fired at one of the six. Macaroney Jack was the first ... ...s the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked theGod of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervideloque...

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...What operational principles and concepts should be used to defeat a highly capable ground-based, strategic air defense system? This study examines the theories of Carl von Clausewitz, Basil H. Liddell Hart, Giulio Douhet, and Col John A. Warden III, and reviews United States, British, and Israeli Air Force doctrines for concepts and principles to overcome defensive stre...

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...LYSIS . . . . 20 CONSTRUCTING OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS . . . . 24 CONCEPT FORCE PROCUREMENT . . . . . 28 TESTING OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS . . . . 30 WAR GAME RESULTS ANALYSIS . . . . . . 35 FUTURE IMPLICATIONS . . . SO WHAT? . . . . . .37 CONCLUSION . . . . . 38 NOTES . . . . . 38 APPENDIX . . . . 45...

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... Some Operational Concepts STANLEY J. DOUGHERTY, MAJOR, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY O... ...JOR, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXWE... ...ed Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA, FOR ... ... implied within are solely those of theauthor, and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Departmen... ...rcome defensive strength. A historical analysis ofLinebacker II, the Yom Kippur War, the 1982 Bekaa Valley Operation, andOperation Desert Storm shows ... ...simultaneous attack(mass), and a balanced concept (mass and surprise). A 28-day war game examinestheir operational effectiveness. The war game demonst... ... with some modification, is a framework for a successfuloffensive air campaign. First, intelligence must identify which enemy centersof gravity are vu... ...resent in each case, and defense suppression played a majorrole in all four air battles. This review will highlight the principles andconcepts employe... ...azette, April 1988, 45. “Theoperational art is the art of using tactical events—battles and refusals to give battle—to strikedirectly at an enemy’s st...