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Warfare...?What are the characteristics of warfare in the 21st Century? Conflict and strife are as old as mankind itself though its dimensions have been changing as technological advances have impacted it along with other facets of human life. War has gone from the early days of using battle clubs and axes to today where unmanned aircraft controlled from halfway across the world can shoot down moving ground targets. War has also been modified in many other facets and has added new facets as it has evolved over the years (Katoch, 2005). The current style of warfare is more popularly known as Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW). One of the most notable things about 4GW is the removal of boundaries between war and the relationship between politics... ,...
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Limited Warfare...Limited warfare Limited warfare Limited warfare significantly differs from total warfare whereby one sacrifices everything he has in order to demolish the enemy. Conversely, limited warfare involves limitations to monarchies actions of warfare in regard to ways such as political, efficient, philosophical or collective reasons. The cold war was one to the instances whereby there was a case of limited warfare as the US pursued limited goals instead of unconditionally obliterating the enemy. The dangers of an immense power conflict and nuclear annihilation constantly gad a limiting effect on confined conflicts. In the...
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Guerrilla warfare...? Guerilla Warfare Warfare has existed since time immemorial. Destroying generations over the political issues became an art over the period. Many philosophers and writers have tried to explain the benefits of countries warring against each other either openly or through guerilla war but repeatedly they have failed to do so. However, thinkers and philosophers did define warfare, as an armed conflict among the political communities; on an international level over certain disagreement. Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular war where trained armed civilians use military tactics in the actions such as raids, ambushes, and petty warfare to dominate or...
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Unconventional Warfare...INTRODUCTION Unconventional warfare is a covert and relatively undefined means of achieving military victory through a number of methods that reducesthe enemies' morale and disintegrates its ability to fight. The tactic used in unconventional warfare is mainly aimed at restricting civilian rights and freedom and instigating emotions like fear, depression and weariness. The various methods of unconventional warfare include guerilla warfare, sabotage and other activities including subversion and unconventional assisted recovery.
One of the most common styles of unconventional combat is the guerilla warfare where small groups use tactics like ambushes and sudden raids on its larger enemy. Guerilla warfare was first referred as a war... of...
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Modern Warfare... How have the wars of the twentieth, and now, twenty-first centuries shaped the lives of working people in the United s The Spanish Civil War lasted from 1936 to 1939. Others have viewed it as a conflict between the Spanish regions for supremacy. It has been described by various writers as a massive war and by others as an "uprising". Neither adjective is necessarily accurate, but what cannot be argued are the effects that the war had in the shaping of the working class. This essay asks me to discuss the effects of war on the shaping of the working class and my research has indicated that there was as Marx put it, a "mixed consciousness". This means that the working class had mixed reviews on war. There were those whom... How have the...
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MEDIEVAL WARFARE...MEDIEVAL WARFARE PART 4 A) How is the masculinity (not just brute force but ethic) of the medieval warrior translated into Full Metal Joust and otherpopular media, books, movies etc? Be sure you address this in at least two different examples.
There is no doubt that modern exhibition of medieval warfare and warriors continue to be subjected to strong alignment to the male gender, thereby creating a masculinity conception about medieval warriors. One of the modern platforms of medieval warfare where masculinity continues to be exhibited and depicted on constant basis is that of the Full Metal Joust. Certainly, masculinity is not exhibited only in terms of the nature of the combat,...
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Information Warfare & Cyberterrorism...Information Warfare & Cyberterrorism affiliation Information Warfare & Cyberterrorism Information warfare is a term usedto describe attacks made on the information technology of a person known as the victim. In cyberterrorism, most aggressors target the information content of the victim. However, in some cases the aggressor targets to paralyze the digital operations of the victim. With rising technology levels, cases of cyberterrorism have increased and they have been developed to paralyze even the most complicated digital systems. The situation worsens when the information warfare becomes a rivalry between two nations. Over the years, nations have emerged claiming...
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Warfare...; the tenet on legitimate authority was not passed given the fact that if Iraq was in contravention of UN sanctions, the United Nations would be the legitimating authority to sanction the war and not the US. Additionally, there is a lack of proof and presence controversies raised by reports that Iraq was planning an attack against the United States or US interests using weapons of mass destruction has raised (Wester, 2005).
There are many changes that make traditional justifications for war to differ from the modern justifications as a result of changing nature of how wars are fought in the contemporary world. While traditional warfare targeted a specific nation, contemporary justification for war is based on the need to...
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Warfare... Section/# Statistical Analysis of Afghanistan Civilian Deaths The utilisation of statistics is a poignant way in which data can be represented. An individual can oftentimes leverage a certain set of data to make a key point, whereas another individual can understand the same topic within a different framework entirely through the utilisation of alternate data. As such, the following discussion will be concentric upon an analysis of the article entitled ‘Tracking Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan’. Although the information therein represented is likely reflected without the intention to mislead or otherwise see the reader, the fact of the matter is that the data is incomplete and necessarily causes the reviewer/analyst... Section/# Statistical...
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Economics of Warfare...Critique of the article ‘Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach’ by Miguel Instrumental variables Most studies that use treatments that are not feasible or those that cannot deliver successful randomised variables needs to adopt approaches that suit their methodology for easy interpretation by the policy makers. The appropriate process commonly used in the determination of causal relationships in such controlled experiments involves the utilisation of the instrumental variables. Although the instrumental variables have application in epidemiology, statistics, and other related disciples, it is commonly used in the econometric studies. Such studies are characterised by the inconsistent estimations... of the...
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