The general as statesman : exploring the professional need for commanders to support viable political outcomes in peace and stability operations as typified by the UK military approach [PDF]
, 2011 The problem of theatre level politico-military arrangements during peace and stability operations is important because the intervening actors, working in complex and often ambiguous circumstances, need to calibrate the application of military and ...
Lovelock, R.
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L’empire du nucléaire : quand Fukushima ne crachait pas encore ses « atomes pour la paix »
Ebisu: Études Japonaises, 2012 Japan’s nuclear policy has long been tied to American foreign policy, especially in the context of anticommunist ideology and the Cold War. The civil use of nuclear energy in Japan is an offshoot of America’s military use, a fact that allows us to ...
Thierry Ribault
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu +5 more
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President Biden’s foreign policy doctrine and advancing US assistance to Ukraine
Американська історія і політика, 2023 The purpose of this article is to analyze the United States’ support to Ukraine during the war with Russia, as well as in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This issue remains relevant to conceptualizing US
Iryna Dudko, Vladyslav Faraponov
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Civil-Military Relations: Guidelines in Politically Charged Societies
, 2022 Current events warrant a review of US civil-military relations doctrine. This article examines eight principles of military subordination to elected civilian officials and addresses the fundamental question at the heart of civil-military relations theory
Patrick Paterson, Paterson, Patrick
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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The Validity of British Army counterinsurgency doctrine after the war in Iraq 2003-2009 [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis analyses whether the British Army’s doctrinal approach for countering insurgency is still valid in the light of the war in Iraq. Why is this important? Insurgency remains a prevalent form of instability. In the absence of a major conventional
Alderson, A
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Military Doctrine: from Strategic Thinking to Military Operations [PDF]
, 2020 Para pasar del pensamiento y la filosofía de la guerra a su práctica es necesario un puente conceptual que facilite la transformación de los principios en acciones. Ese puente es la doctrina militar, como guía de actuación del mando en combate.
Díaz Criado, Enrique Silvela
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The essential role of democracy in the Bush Doctrine: the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2013 Everyone knows that democracy played a role in the Bush Doctrine. What not everyone knows is that this role was essential for the doctrine to be put into operation under which the Iraq invasion was prepared and launched.
Maria Helena de Castro Santos +1 more
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