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 …

FIGHTING FOR YOU Our campaigns Our previous campaigns War in Ukraine Fit for 2030 package Our parliamentary


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


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