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  The Ultimate War Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
At the outbreak of World War I the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This attitude was embraced by many societies from Sparta in Ancient Greece and the ancient Romans to the fascist states of the 1930s.
Total war is the modern term for the targeting of civilians and the mobilization of an entire society.
A distinct branch of the psychological theories of war are the arguments based on evolutionary psychology.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Warfare   (2796 words)

  
 Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the history of political thought, certain elements of what is typically thought of as socialism long predate the rise of the workers movement of the late 19th century, for example in Thomas More's Utopia.
During the war, socialist parties in France and Germany supported the state wartime military and economic planning, despite their ideological commitments to internationalism and solidarity.
Lenin, however, denounced the war as an imperialist conflict urged the workers worldwide to use the war as an occasion for proletarian revolution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialism   (3455 words)

  
 Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The string theory of quantum gravity predicts that time is continuous, but the main alternative to string theory, loop quantum gravity, does not.
Even if physicists agree someday on the initial conditions of the universe and on the laws of the universe, and thereby explain the entropy of the early universe and the cause of the cosmic arrow of time, there is no good reason to believe this theory would be a theory of everything.
Predictions fall into the "truth value gap." This position that contingent sentences have no truth values is called the Aristotelian position because many researchers throughout history have taken Aristotle to be holding the position in chapter 9 of On Interpretation--although today it is not so clear that Aristotle himself held it.
www.iep.utm.edu /t/time.htm   (16682 words)

  
 Albion's Seedlings: November 2005 Archives
From the time of the War of 1812 til that of his publication (1892), the only foreign war of note was in Crimea and in that the colonies such as Canada made money but had virtually no other involvement apart from Canadians who had long before joined the British military.
I quoted Max Beloff in an earlier post, who noted that after World War I, some people were predicting a war between Britain and the USA as the next round of conflict, but that Britain had already “lost” a war with the USA without a shot being fired.
World War Zero and its outcome -- the transfer of hegemony from Britain to the USA without armed conflict -- is one of the fundamental underpinnings of the contemporary world and all of modernity.
www.anglosphere.com /weblog/archives/2005_11.html   (17686 words)

  
 CJR Daily : politics
They are also going to lose the war for us by agreeing to the enemy's conditions, namely to force our military to fight a 'civilized war' under Geneva Convention rules...
But even this signal from the top itself that the Times was to be considered a treacherous foe could not entirely prepare one for the sputtering red-faced anger directed at the paper earlier this week at a protest in front of its offices demanding that the paper be prosecuted for running the story.
To wit: On Tuesday, Robert Portman the head of the OMB is expected to release the annual mid-session forecast on the federal budget deficit.
www.cjrdaily.org /politics   (3099 words)

  
 TMW Media Group: Videos For The Curious Mind!
It's quite another to be a young person facing the very real pressure to join.
The Irish Brigade In The American Civil War
The new immigrant Irish were fierce and heroic warriors during the American Civil War; they fought not only for their adopted land but to prepare for the anticipated military struggle for
www.tmwmedia.com   (707 words)

  
 Tanker Markets
WASHINGTON - Oil prices soared to a new record above $75 a barrel on Wednesday, propelled by a rally in gasoline and geopolitical tensions.
HONOLULU - While the Navy was staging war games and hunting down "enemy" submarines with sonar off the island of Kauai two summers ago, more than 150 lost and disorient...
A dying industry in India's graveyard of ships
www.tankermarkets.com   (412 words)

  
 War - The Wordbook Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Thewordbook is a comprehensive encyclopedia and a reference search engine, in which you have found this entry about War.
TheWordbook.com is your reference book and invites you to quarry.
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www.thewordbook.com /War   (80 words)

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