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Soviet Studies in History, 1991
Were we to ask right now on the streets of Moscow what the USSR's losses during World War Two were, practically everyone would respond, "twenty million." Some might add that 8.6 million of these were servicemen who died directly on the battlefield and that no less than four million had died of wounds in hospitals.
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Were we to ask right now on the streets of Moscow what the USSR's losses during World War Two were, practically everyone would respond, "twenty million." Some might add that 8.6 million of these were servicemen who died directly on the battlefield and that no less than four million had died of wounds in hospitals.
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War Experiences/War Practices/War Theory
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2012This article challenges International Relations to turn its view of war around and start not with states, militaries, strategies, conventional security issues or weapons, and not with the common main aim of establishing causes of war. The challenge is to conceptualise war as a subset of social relations of experience, on the grounds that war cannot be ...
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War as Play, War as Slaughter, and the Laws of War
2018Johan Huizinga (1955) wrote a groundbreaking work on play and its relation to culture in 1938. This book, entitled Homo Ludens, makes a strong case for the more general claim that the play function in human culture is as important as the work function and human reasoning; in short, for Huizinga, our species is not only Homo Sapiens and Homo Faber (man ...
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1989
A triptych: Part I is the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Part II is a Dadaist vaudeville, as the Dead Soldier rises from the grave as a minstrel comedian and Wittgenstein and Brockdorff-Rantzau become vaudevillians in a variety revue seemingly hosted by Kurt Schwitters, the German artist who created word poetry. Part III is a poker game at Los Alamos.
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A triptych: Part I is the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Part II is a Dadaist vaudeville, as the Dead Soldier rises from the grave as a minstrel comedian and Wittgenstein and Brockdorff-Rantzau become vaudevillians in a variety revue seemingly hosted by Kurt Schwitters, the German artist who created word poetry. Part III is a poker game at Los Alamos.
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Culture Wars and City Politics, Revisited: Local Councils and the Australia Day Controversy
Urban Affairs Review, 2022Rachel Busbridge, Mark Chou
exaly
1995
The war of 1967 was to prove as decisive in its consequences as that of 1948–9. It left Israel firmly in control of all the land of mandatory Palestine, as well as extensive Egyptian and Syrian territory, and tilted the balance of Middle East power firmly in an Israeli direction.
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The war of 1967 was to prove as decisive in its consequences as that of 1948–9. It left Israel firmly in control of all the land of mandatory Palestine, as well as extensive Egyptian and Syrian territory, and tilted the balance of Middle East power firmly in an Israeli direction.
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Abstract Chapter 6 examines the relationship between jus ad bellum proportionality (proportionality of war) and jus in bello proportionality (proportionality of acts of war), and more generally the relationship between the proportionality of policies or courses of conduct and the proportionality of specific acts. The author shows that if
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