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Defending the Emergence of the Superior Orders Defense in the Contemporary Context
Göttingen Journal of International Law, 2011 The defense of superior orders is one of the most controversial defenses to be pleaded under criminal law. In effect, it condones ignorance of the law and allows a subordinate to escape criminal liability on a basis other than culpability.
Jessica Liang
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Fifth Brigade at Verrieres Ridge [PDF]
, 2012 The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade arrived in France on 16 July 1944 during the worst days of the battle of Normandy. The Allies had expected heavy losses on the D-Day beaches and then, once through the Atlantic Wall, lighter casualties in a war of ...
Copp, Terry
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Los fines de la presencia de la Orden del Hospital en Castilla (Siglos XII y XIII)
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2015 Las fuentes nos informan muy poco acerca de la suerte que tenían los recursos obtenidos por la Orden del Hospital de sus posesiones en la Corona de Castilla durante los siglos XII y XIII.
Carlos Barquero Goñi
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What was the Significance of Lay Support for the Success of the Military Orders During the Crusades? [PDF]
This dissertation explores the importance that the laity played in relation to the Templars and Hospitallers. Until recently this aspect of the military orders has largely been ignored.
Coates, Alexander
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“Pushing Their Necks Out”: Ultra, The Black Watch, and Command Relations, May-sur-Orne, Normandy, 5 August 1944 [PDF]
, 2012 In 1974 Group Captain Frederick Winterbotham shocked the world when he revealed in his semiautobiographical work, The Ultra Secret, that the Allies had been breaking high-grade German ciphers throughout the greater portion of the Second World War in an ...
O\u27Keefe, David R.
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The Naval War Board of 1898 [PDF]
, 2016 The early months of 1898 witnessed the explosion of Maine and additional inducements for war. The Naval War Board, which first made its appearance in late March was summoned to arrange strategy for the impending hostilities.
Wenzer, Kenneth C.
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A Commander’s Power, A Civilian’s Reason: Justice Jackson’s Korematsu Dissent [PDF]
, 2005 Barrett examines the dissent opinion of Supreme Court Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson in Korematsu v. United States, which centered on the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Barrett, John Q.
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Organization theory and military metaphor: time for a reappraisal? [PDF]
, 2006 A ‘conventional’ use of military metaphor would use it to convey attributes such as hierarchical organization, vertical communication and limited autonomy.
Alistair Mutch +45 more
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Home Front to War Front: The Navy Nurse Corps During World War II [PDF]
, 2016 The Navy Nurse Corps was created in 1908, when President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Naval Appropriations Bill. Twenty women were selected to become the corps’ first members. These women were referred to as the “The Sacred Twenty.” On December 7, 1941,
Thibault, Amanda L.
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