War
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL-ə-MOL-ə-jee), from the Greek polemos, meaning "war", and -logy, meaning "the study …
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Greens/EFA: The Greens/European Free Alliance · 4 November 2024 English
We have put together this delicious cookery book. It contains 50 favourite recipes from Greens/EFA Members of European Parliament and invites you to try them yourself. There are also practical …
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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 26 July 2024 English
Since the end of the Second World War, the US’s engagement in South Asia has undergone changes in response to evolving geopolitical dynamics in the region and the global landscape. [...] With the onset …
Pakistan’s Emergence as a Cold War Ally 25 Changing Nature of Pakistan’s Cold War Alliances 28 Rupture in alliance … Defunct Alliance 31 Benefits to Pakistan from its Cold War Alliances 31 India’s Potential as a Major Power and … US-Pakistan Partnership During the Cold War 34 3. Post-Cold War Challenges 42 Nuclear Proliferation became … Pakistan as a Lynchpin of US Strategy during the Cold War 173 Pakistan’s Strategic Partnership with China 174 … regional stability. Since the end of the Second World War, the US’s engagement in South Asia has undergone …
NYU: New York University · 25 July 2024 English
can do more to hold al-Sheikh fully to account under the Torture Act and the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act. The post US Arrests Former Syrian Prison Chief – But Will the Charges Prove Equal to His …
under the Torture Act and the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www …
NYU: New York University · 25 July 2024 English
President of the Open Society Foundations, Binaifer Nowrojee, discusses implications of ICJ ruling on Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The post International Court of Justice’s Call on All States to …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 25 July 2024 English
attack helicopters. [...] One of the major factors for successful precision targeting during the Kargil War was the exemplary integration and coordinated planning between the IAF and the Indian Army. [...] The …
professionalism by deploying heroism in the Kargil War in 1999, a significant event its aerospace might … The Beginning Pakistan’s code name for the Kargil War was ‘Operation Koh-e-Paima’. This Operation was initiated … Airpower at 18,000': The Indian Air Force in the Kargil War, September 20, 2012, https://carnegieendowment.o … er-at-18000-the-indian-air- force-in-the-kargil-war?lang=en. Table 1 shows the total number of combat … successful precision targeting during the Kargil War was the exemplary integration and coordinated planning …
CWS: Church World Service · 25 July 2024 English
Asylum seekers are ordinary people with lives, plans and dreams for their future. But war, violence and persecution have forced them to leave everything behind for a chance at safety for themselves and …
with lives, plans and dreams for their future. But war, violence and persecution have forced them to leave …
24 July 2024 English
Indeed, it is sad to expect that refugees would come from war zones in the wider Middle East and Africa, so when the UNHCR notes that 42% of the world’s new asylum seekers come from Latin America and the …
became—voluntarily or not—embroiled in the Cold War. Indeed, the more the U.S. emphasized the communist … here, however, is that until the end of the Cold War, guerilla movements were common in Latin America … in place of the rulers. After the end of the Cold War, several of these guerilla movements disappeared … and money laundering to fund their operations. The war became the ideal backdrop for criminal organizations … the highest number in its history. The cause: a war fought between the PCC and the Rio de Janeiro-based …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 24 July 2024 English
Subsequent news of the crashing of a Mig-27 aircraft in POK, capture of the pilot, Flt Lt K Nachiketa, shooting of the Escort Mig-21 aircraft by a Stinger missile, the …
use of Air Power by IAF since the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Participation by the IAF proved to be the cutting … possible escalation of a full-blown Conventional war. The mission was to launch at dusk. I considered … members chosen for this mission. We came into the full war mode of Aircraft preparation, mission preparation …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2024 English
1. Rationing child care in Canada. 2. Does war reinforce gender stereotypes? 3. HIV vaccine in the works? 4. Price inflation in Argentina is improving. 5. Melissa Dell on deep learning for economists. …
WGCS: Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists · 24 July 2024 English
The Wentworth Group, together with experts from academia, government and business, has developed a Blueprint to Repair Australia’s Landscapes. The Blueprint describes a suite of 24 practical actions and investments, …
a recession for a developed country since World War II.5 Achievements in the land sector have included …