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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5863)The largest cathedral in East Asia on its completion in 1925, Urakami Cathedral, located in the Urakami District in the northern part of Nagasaki City, has long been a centre of Christianity in the region. On August...
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From:International Law Update (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSECOND CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT FORMER DIRECTOR OF ISRAELI SECURITY AGENCY IS IMMUNE FROM SUIT BROUGHT UNDER ATCA AND TVPA, FOR HIS OFFICIAL ACTIONS RELATED TO AERIAL BOMBING OF GAZA CITY APARTMENT COMPLEX, WHERE U.S....
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 140, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: For two decades, scholars and practitioners have argued that the world is experiencing a Revolution in Military Affairs brought on by the development and diffusion of precision-strike and related capabilities....
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Last Word WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE MOST UNUSUAL contingency plan prepared by the Pentagon is the "Red Integrated Strategic Offensive Plan," or RISOP--"a detailed hypothetical, but plausible, plan of how Russia could...
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From:Air & Space Power Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDESTRUCTION from the air is the most efficient method of defeating an enemy. It is possible to make this statement without the necessity of outlining the accomplishments of the strategic Air Forces in Europe, where they...
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From:Human Factors (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTraditionally military aviators have prepared for air-to-ground bombing missions with maps and aerial photographs of their targets. Mission rehearsal systems augment these media by allowing pilots to view simulated...
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From:Parameters (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: The international air campaigns over Libya, Syria, and Yemen offer lessons for the planning of future interventions. Planners and politicians must acknowledge hostile targets will evolve over time, and it is...
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From:Air Power History (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen the US did not succeed in dropping the Thanh Hoa Railroad and Highway Bridge, possibilities were looked at to achieve this like tactics and improved weapons. In the end it was decided to try it in a very unorthodox...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing healthcare in Afghanistan since 1981 including specialized health services for trauma patients in Kunduz Trauma Center (KTC) from 2011. On...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Targeted killing sits at the intersection of law, morality, strategy, and policy. For the very reasons that lawful and effective targeted killing enables the state to engage in its care function of...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLiving in a city subjected to aerial bombardment is an experience dominated by the aural rather than the visual sense: bombs are heard, not seen. Accordingly, much of the writing about the London Blitz relies on the...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFollowing over a decade of consistently hostile relations with Sudan, the United States indicated a willingness to consider Sudan's bid to rehabilitate its international stature in the fall of 2001. This shift was...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 109, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA Theory of the Drone. By Gregoire Chamayou. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York, London: The New Press, 2015. Pp. 292. Index. $26.95. International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan: The Legal and Socio-political...
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From:International Law Update (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress authorized the President "to use all necessary and appropriate force" against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces. This case concerned an alleged...
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From:Air Power History (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfter President Lyndon Johnson had restricted the bombing of North Vietnam to south of 20[degrees]N on April 1, 1968, it was further restricted to south of 19[degress]N three days later. Johnson further announced on...
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From:Air Power History (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAir power theorists expect technology to follow them, and translate their ideas into reality. Sometimes, however, theory cannot be practiced, because it outruns technology. In that case, the theory must be modified to...
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From:Air Power History (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWith his reelection in November 1972, President Richard Nixon anticipated that he could soon orchestrate a diplomatic end to the Vietnam conflict. To this end, his National Security Advisor, Dr. Henry Kissinger, worked...
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From:International Journal on World Peace (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the first eight months of 1999, while the world's media focused on Kosovo, American and British pilots fired more than 1,100 missiles against 359 targets in Iraq--triple the number of missiles launched in the...
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From:American Jewish History (Vol. 89, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWithin the title of the recent volume The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted To Do It? lies the tragic paradox that is at the heart of contemporary discussions about the Allies and Auschwitz. The...
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From:Air & Space Power Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLet us, therefore, beware of being lulled in to a dangerous security.... The expenses required to prevent a war, are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it....