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    The Germans would use the tactics of an area defense, which denies enemy forces access to specified terrain, defending in depth, exploiting terrain advantages and strong security forces to defend against numerous Allied attacks on Monte Cassino. Colonel Heilmann, the commander of

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    The Gallipoli campaign remains as the greatest failure in Australian military history because of its significant losses, for both the ANZACs and Turks as well as minimal gains over the course of the ten month campaign, thus labelling the Gallipoli campaign the greatest failure in Australian military history. The Gallipoli campaign was a failure because of the general underestimation and misunderstanding of the terrain and opposition by the Allied forces. The terrain at Gallipoli was steep and harsh;

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    local geography to their advantage, waging a guerilla war and abusing hit-and-run tactics to make a dent in the superior American force. These tactics worked fairly well for the Insurrectos, but inspired a deep hatred of the Filipino people from the eyes of the American soldiers. Civilized nations would lock horns through conventional war, but only savages like the Filipinos would dare resort to cowardly guerilla tactics. The Philippine-American war became a racial

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    in the high-tech electronic industry. Its quality-oriented specialization in manufacturing military components had been highly recognized and supported by the steady growth of human resources and a significant pool of expertise such as R&D department. The development of the GPS technology during 1980s, thus, had created valuable opportunities that secured key revenues and a lead positioning in the military field. However, the “New World Order” has gradually shifted the technology demand

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    Militarized Policing

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    Military/Police: The Rise of Militarized Policing Military/Police: The Rise of Militarized Policing Introduction The United States has long regarded with great suspicion efforts to use the military as a tool of civilian law enforcement. In significant part, this attitude grew out of the colonists’ experiences with the abuses of the British Army. These abuses included the Boston Massacre of 1770, in which the British Army opened fire on colonists protesting the use of the army to enforce civilian

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    many armies in Greece, and they rose to the top through tactics and strategies. Greek tactics and strategies were very successful due to how many wars they won. However Trojans were out of the “box” thinkers, and were not always an easy fight. The Greeks, Trojans, and Spartans armies were very strategic and resourceful. They used battle forms, The Gods, their religion, and outside the box thinking to overcome battles and win wars. Tactics were highly impressive in the “Bronze Age” and are shown

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    repeated defeats suffered by the Roman legions at the hands of the Carthaginian forces were a result of a failure to adapt to Hannibal’s tactics, and an inability to formulate new strategy in reaction to the many pitched battle tactics that Barca employed. Hannibal, in the Battle of Cannae, also introduced the Romans rather painfully to the “hammer-and-anvil” tactics that he borrowed from Alexander the Great, which involved the combination of cavalry and infantry in direct assaults (Polybius 3). The

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    The Roman Military

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    The roman military was a main part of the Roman empire's expansion and long life. Their legions contained around 4,200 troops. Each had a special name, whether it was an emperor’s name or a god, even a number. But if a legion was destroyed in battle the name was never used again. There wae different levels of infantry in order from highest to lowest was general, senior tribune, centurion, century optio, legionary, foot soldier, spanish slinger, and the samaritan archer. There were also flag men,

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    The two vocal points I feel strongly about are both their military and leadership. When talking about their militaries we have two of the strongest forces to ever grace the earth. When talking about their respective cultures we are talking about beliefs that spread nationwide. These are the similarities and differences between Greece and Rome. If there was anything that Rome and Greece where known for it was there brute military and ruthless violence that brought both empires to the top

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    It is critically important to gain all benefits of the military history lessons to abstract the aspects of war, which enhance our leadership and capabilities to take the right decision. Therefore, I am going to start with war definition. “War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our Will”. During the eighteenth and the 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

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