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  After Colony technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most technology is assumed to work in at least similar fashion to the mobile weapon technology from Gundam's Universal Century.
In the After Colony Universe, the word "Gundam" is derived from this acronym (GUNDAnium Mobilesuit).
After the White Fang seized control of the Lunar Base, the modified ZERO System that the White Fang leader Milliardo Peacecraft had developed allowed Dorothy Catalonia to employ the system in controlling the Virgo II's Mobile Doll target programming and tactics during battle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/After_Colony_Technology   (1243 words)

  
 After War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The After War is the timeline that the anime Gundam X and its sequel take place in.
After War is the only timeline, besides the original one, to feature Newtypes as an important element and the Earth Federation.
A cease fire is declared after the death of the leaders of both sides, and the destruction of the moon base.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/After_War   (671 words)

  
 War and Aftermath by Frederick W. Kagan - Policy Review, No. 120   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If these two wars represented merely isolated cases or aberrations from the mainstream of military and political developments in the U.S., then the study of this problem would be of primarily academic interest.
That is a critical question in war, because what happens behind the pointy end of the spear may well determine the political outcome of the campaign.
As the war ended, a chorus began to sing the praises of military transformation as demonstrated in that war.
www.policyreview.org /aug03/kagan.html   (9977 words)

  
 Dyer, Gwynne
After serving in the naval reserves of Canada, the United States, and Britain, Dyer completed his doctoral studies in Military History at King's College, University of London in 1973.
War was a reflection of Dyer's own growing concern about the proliferation of new technology, its impact on the changing nature of warfare and the growing threat of nuclear annihilation.
War offered the unique perspective of the soldier from the rigorous training of young U.S. marine recruits at the Parris Island Training Depot in South Carolina, to the field exercises conducted by NATO and Warsaw Pact countries in Europe.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/dyergwynne/dyergwynne.htm   (753 words)

  
 Roland: War & Technology
Prepared for and presented at the Summary Conference on the Study of War held in June 1997 under the auspices of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, with the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, the paper is intended as part of an extended study of the phenomenon of warfare in the nuclear age.
While animal war is a function of instinct and primitive war of the mores, civilized war is primarily a function of state politics.
Technology assessment is most often a subset of engineering, concentrating on the impact or results of technology.
www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_4/roland.html   (3014 words)

  
 Mobile weapons - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1996's After War Gundam X, mobile suits were the main weapons of both the Old Earth Federation and the Space Revolutionary Army.
After the 7th Space War ended with a massive colony drop, which brought the Earth to a post-apocalypse state, a large number of these mobile suits remaine on Earth and many are taken by civilians for personal use.
In the Cosmic Era timeline, mobile armours are non-humanoid units employed by the Earth Alliance forces.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Mobile_suits   (2811 words)

  
 10 YEARS AFTER GULF WAR: NEW ERA OF STRUGGLE GIVES HOPE TO IRAQ
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War, which  provides an opportunity to put it in historical perspective.
After a decade of military,  economic, financial, media and diplomatic warfare, the  immense oil profits of Iraq are still not in the hands of  U.S. corporations.
U.S. Using the war against Iraq as a pretext, the Pentagon was  finally able to permanently position U.S. troops in the  Middle East and establish bases throughout the oil-rich  Persian Gulf.
www.iacenter.org /Iraq/iraq_10yrs.htm   (1567 words)

  
 The Great War . The Shaping of the 21st Century | PBS
Then came the shock waves of 1989-91, ending the "short 20th century," an era that began with the great war and concluded with the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in a robust European community.
Whether or not the war on terrorism as a response to the World Trade Center attack is detrimental to the United States, has yet to be seen.
It occurred in the context of total war, but it was also the policy of an independent state to eliminate inhabitants of its own population.
www.pbs.org /greatwar/thenandnow   (1481 words)

  
 The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading ...
The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that the case for war in Iraq was being "fixed" by Washington to suit United States policy, according to a new BBC documentary.
Media coverage of the Iraq war by the American media was not biased in favour or against the war, according to new research, despite claims the coverage was generally biased and negative.
Having emerged shaken, but relatively unscathed from covering his 34th war, veteran BBC reporter John Simpson reflects on the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein and the media's role in what was the most closely scrutinised war in history.
www.smh.com.au /specials/iraq   (3574 words)

  
 Roland: War & Technology:2
World War II was the first war in which the weapons in play at the end differed significantly from those employed at the outset.
The technology of war was becoming deterministic, not just of warfare itself but of society as a whole.
As the passions of the Cold War cool and the incidence of conventional war abates, future generations may look back on the late twentieth century as a period in which the armed forces were the primary patrons of technological development.
www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_4/roland2.html   (4488 words)

  
 National History Standards - Era 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The war can be studied in several ways: as the final, violent phase in a conflict of two regional subcultures; as the breakdown of a democratic political system; as the climax of several decades of social reform; and as a pivotal chapter in American racial history.
The legacies of the era of war and reconstruction needs to be considered with reference to the North and West as well as the South.
Explain the causes of the Civil War and evaluate the importance of slavery as a principal cause of the conflict.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /nchs/standards/era5-5-12.html   (1175 words)

  
 Nike Missiles - Cold War Era (1952-1974) - San Francisco Coastal Defenses - Presidio of San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the Cold War era that followed World War II, the threat of foreign attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air attack, particularly by aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.
In the San Francisco area, antiaircraft defenses were at a continual high state of readiness from the Korean War and through to the implementation of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972.
After twenty years of constant readiness, the Nike missile system was declared obsolete by 1974 and the last missiles were taken out of service in 1979.
www.nps.gov /prsf/coast_defense/nike   (475 words)

  
 NSF Booklet
Science and technology, the generators of these new weapons systems and shapers of military strategy and doctrine, were thus at the very center of the Cold War.
Fighting the Cold War, Eisenhower said, had produced two situations unprecedented in American history: the maintenance of a large military while the United States was not officially at war, and the creation and heavy reliance upon a large, permanent armaments industry.
The nation's rapid retreat soon after the end of the Cold War from funding both the massive Superconducting Supercollider Project and the Space Station Project suggests that the social contract for science forged after World War II may be undergoing radical revision.
www.cmu.edu /coldwar/NSFbookl.htm   (7890 words)

  
 American Experience | The Time of the Lincolns | A Rising Nation
A wave of new technologies brought about sweeping changes in the nation's economy.
From agricultural devices like the cotton gin and the mechanical reaper to communication improvements like steamboats and the telegraph, these innovations changed the way Americans worked, traveled, and communicated.
New tools even altered the way Americans lived and died; the efficient Sharps rifle was invented just two years after the first successful use of anesthesia in a Boston surgical theater.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/nation/gal_technology.html   (81 words)

  
 Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
In an era of structured education and standardized testing, this generational difference might not yet be evident.
Yet in its heyday between the wars, modernism was a vast utopian project, and perhaps the last utopian project we will ever see, now that we are well aware that all utopias have their dark side.
War invalids from the nineties, the Milosevic wars, are protesting at the same time in front of the governmental building.
www.boingboing.net   (7852 words)

  
 New York 1964 World's Fair - Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The purpose was to educate the public, particularly children of school age, who were thought to be far behind the Russians in mathematical and scientific skills.
Exotic material technologies were shown at General Motors, Ford, the Hall of Science and half a dozen other pavilions.
Inside were two three-foot-long quartz tubes filled with deuterium plasma, Inside them, after a three minute countdown, a million amperes of current created a magnetic field 200,000 times stronger than the earth's.
naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /ny64fair/map-docs/technology.htm   (1978 words)

  
 PLA Senior Colonels on Unrestricted Warfare: Part I
Although the Kosovo War occurred and hegemonism and power politics are all too widespread in the world, peace and development are still the main line of development for the twenty-first century....
Many new technologies arise in many different fields so to say that we live in the nuclear age or the information age is to slight important technologies in other fields.
In World War II Hitler didn’t realize that he was making a strategic revolution when in using long range missiles like the V-1 and the V-2 he erased the boundary between the battlefront and the rear.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/china/doctrine/unresw1.htm   (6730 words)

  
 a klog apart
The public continues that trend as the diffusing technology follows Moore's Law (more, better, faster, cheaper, smaller).
It won't happen in this decade because John Kerry should be able to keep the peace for the next 8 years, but the next time a country fears an attack by the US, watch their blogosphere come under attack from within.
After BloggerCon: Ed Blogger San Francisco, 22-23 Nov 2003, non-conference.
www.dijest.com /aka/categories/technology   (4726 words)

  
 TIME Magazine - News Magazine - Current Events
After months of relative calm following Katrina, the city's notorious murder rate is again on the rise
Three years into the Iraq war, TIME posed the question to a wide array of experts and thinkers.
As the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War approaches, TIME asked leading thinkers around the world to weigh in on the question at the heart of the ongoing debate about the controversial conflict.
www.time.com   (829 words)

  
 Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
Several months later, a Defense Intelligence Agency analysis said that even after the war ended, Iraq was likely to "continue to develop its formidable conventional and chemical capability, and probably pursue nuclear weapons" [Document 58].
When their discussion turned to the Iran-Iraq war, Aziz said that his country was satisfied that "the U.S. analysis of the war's threat to regional stability is 'in agreement in principle' with Iraq's," and expressed thanks for U.S. efforts to cut off international arms sales to Iran.
After reading a "friendly and non-contentious letter" from Iraqi Foreign Minister Hammadi to Secretary of State Haig, the head of the U.S. interests section agrees with foreign ministry official Mohammed al-Sahhaf that a useful two-way correspondence had been established between the U.S. and Iraq.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82   (7873 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US and Russia clash over expulsions
Russia and the United States are engaged in a war of words over Washington's move to expel up to 50 Russian diplomats.
This is a fallback to the Cold War era
Full details of the expulsions have still to be announced, but it is known that six Russians were expelled immediately after being declared personae non grata, and that up to 50 others are being asked to leave.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1234000/1234742.stm   (577 words)

  
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In the never-ending battle against dangerous spam, Microsoft has announced a new global enforcement plan, which includes anti-phishing technology improvements in the upcoming IE 7.
Another eBook reader will be out next month, as manufacturers slowly try to find and develop a market for the technology.
After kicking up strong initial opposition, AOL's new plan to charge for the guaranteed delivery of bulk e-mail has found some supporters who think it could be a partial solution to the Internet's e-mail woes.
arstechnica.com   (1217 words)

  
 The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Obituary: Mystery Man - Technology Review
After the findings were reported in Science in 1979, Khachiyan became a computer science celebrity.
But the importance of his breakthrough escaped nobody in academia and industry.
Grigoriadis recalls hearing that IBM's CEO asked his research groups to assess the discovery reported in the press.
www.technologyreview.com /articles/05/09/issue/obituary.asp   (217 words)

  
 Battlefield of the Future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After authorities linked the source of this outbreak to a live cattle shipment from the former Yugoslavia, the European Community (EC) sparked a “cow war” when they banned bovine products from all 18 countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The cow wars restrict their access to agricultural markets and economic capital which could finance greater economic and political reforms.
In the post-cold war era and as we enter the twenty-first century, the economy determines superpower status.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/battle/chp10.html   (4742 words)

  
 Torpedoes, submarine, air force and aircraft carrier in the Civil War era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shortly after, the Confederate constructed the second generation torpedo boat, a true submarine that could totally submerged under water, moved forward and changed directions, christened CSS H.L. Hunley for one of her builder, Horace L. Hunley (or Hundley) [McClintock was the other builder].
You might also be interested in a forthcoming article on the Sultana disaster to appear in the October issue of "North and South." Robert Lowden's claim that he destroyed the Sultana with a coal torpedo has long been discounted by "serious" scholars.
The article is a re-examination and includes details on Lowden (also Louden) and his activities as a saboteur all through the war.
members.aol.com /gordonkwok/torpedoes.html   (1390 words)

  
 The Civil War
This is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies; identifications and descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war.
A succinct summary of the war’s causes; the two sides’ goals, strengths, weaknesses, and strategies; and the major battles.
Classroom activities, focusing on women’s experience during the Civil War, appropriate for students of a variety of ages and ability levels that draw upon resources available on the World Wide Web and upon primary source documents.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/civwar/links.cfm   (546 words)

  
 NMCWM Events
Yet, the men who fought in the Civil War carried a distinction that not only endured, but also apparently deepened, as they lived out the rest of their lives.
It is the positive aspects of the war experience for veterans that are often underappreciated, and by examining how the Union soldier viewed his service to the nation we can gain insight into this contemporary issue.
The medical history of the war will also be explored with activities that will develop participant’s skills in history and science.
www.civilwarmed.org /events.cfm   (1335 words)

  
 United Press International - Science & Technology (no pub) - U.S. unveils Cold War-era spy pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Six members of a family who were buried in their motor home by snow in Oregon for more than two weeks have returned to safety.
The arresting FBI agent's report on convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was not seen by the chief of the agency's terror unit, a Virginia trial has heard.
The point of the declassification is threefold: to promote the spirit of open governance; to demonstrate results of taxpayer investment in national security; and to give researchers access to useful and unique sources of information.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20020918-035300-4498r   (910 words)

  
 Wired News: Bracing for the Digital Crackdown
The fear and loathing focused at the file-trading community is reminiscent of 1990, just before the Secret Service and the FBI conducted raids in order to smash the loosely affiliated hacker organizations around the country, as chronicled by Bruce Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown.
"They are going after the same set of folks they were going after back then," said John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit legal fund formed to defend people caught in the hacker raids.
Civil liberty advocates are wondering how far the government will be able to go in attacking file trading before the courts force the government to stop.
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,54681,00.html   (783 words)

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