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    It all started mid January a few years back. My father asked me if I wanted to go to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game because, the Miami Heat would be in town to play. So of-course I said yes! He ended up getting four tickets through his company which meant Amazing seats that were pretty much court side. Dad told me I could invite anyone I wanted and that he was inviting my friend Anthony’s Dad Tony. Tony was quite the character not one you'd look up to but cool to hangout with. He was about a

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    Call of Duty: Black Ops III takes place in a dystopian future set in 2065, 40 years after the events of Black Ops II. Several countries around the world have developed high-tech air defenses that render air assaults useless. As such, most of the warfare between countries is done by covert operatives fighting behind enemy lines. Science and technology have radically changed both the landscape as well as the future of the human race, with society violently protesting and attempting to halt further

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    Most people have strength. Some are weak, but those who believe in themselves show courage. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, and Jon Krakauer Into the Wild some of the characters represent courage . Clara in “The House of the spirits “ represents strength since she described to be very calm and patient . Clara never fights her destiny. She’s not, however, passive. Usually those who wants to know their destiny goes insane but Clara knows what

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    Is the Notion of an Early Modern Military Revolution Tenable? The notion of an early modern military revolution is one which is a much debated subject among historians. Two historians who are very dominant in this field are Geoffrey Parker and Michael Roberts. Although they both agree that a military revolution occurred, they disagree on the timing of a revolution in war. Roberts argues that a military revolution started in 1560 and "by 1660, the modern art of war had come to birth." Parker

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    beginning of the nineteenth centuries, a series of conflicts dominated Europe. These conflicts had its influence on the Europe at that time, but the Napoleonic wars had the most lasting impact on western warfare. The explosion of the French revolution in 1789 is regarded today as an important event in modern history. Different aspects of the French revolution influenced the world affairs today. Therefore, war is an action has a principle to guide the force supported by sustainment, and to compel your enemy

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    How Do We Shape Warfare?

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    Is the study of amphibious warfare best seen as a subset of naval history? Or should it be an area of study unto itself that actually intersects the history of warfare at sea, on land, and most recently in the air? Why or why not? The discussion of amphibious warfare and its primacy in military history is rather ambiguous in the sense that the study of amphibious warfare is incongruous with the traditional scholarship of naval and land warfare. While the use of amphibious tactics dates back through

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    contorted with a pain that comes from within. Chemical warfare has long been acknowledged as a devastating tactical weapon, but the origin of this impression is now being debated. While it is a common held belief that chemical warfare is a form of modern warfare and that the First World War is recognised for introducing this type of combat, recent archaeological finds show this may prove otherwise. According to accepted definitions of chemical warfare, newly discovered battle tactics used by humanity’s

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    Modern warfare is warfare using the concepts, methods, and military technology that have come into use during and after World War II and the Korean War.[citation needed] The concepts and methods have assumed more complex forms of the 19th- and early-20th-century antecedents, largely due to the widespread use of highly advanced information technology, and combatants must modernize constantly to preserve their battle worthiness.[1] Although total war was thought to be the form of international conflicts

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    asymmetric warfare is an inherently relational concept. It refers to a relative dissimilarity between opponents’ in battle, derived from a difference in relational strength amid warring sides. This asymmetry has tended to be in terms of status and organization; means and resources, goals and objectives; and strategies and tactics. The relationship between the belligerents in today’s conflicts varies in many tactical, strategic and operational levels, which has come to be perceived as changing warfare. This

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    evolution of mankind, the art of warfare has witnessed numerous changes. Over the years, military technology kept on changing and has advanced from rifles to the nuclear weapons. The 20th century saw a drastic change in the military technology and military thinkers adapted to this change and took it as a way to totally transform the war. These technological advancements added new dimensions to warfare through a combination of firepower, mobility, and maneuver. Warfare has now transitioned to become

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