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	Technological escalation during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike technological escalation during World War I, it was generally believed that speed and firepower, not defenses or entrenchments, would bring the war to a quicker end.
		Depending on one's frame of reference, one can reasonably assert that World War II began with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, or as late as the last declarations of war between the United States and Germany in December 1941.
		Quite a bit occurred during this time to escalate technological conflict, most notably the upgrading and deployment of aircraft carriers by the U.S. and Japan in the Pacific, and invention of carrier-type aircraft such as the Mitsubishi Zero, largely considered the best plane of its time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technological_escalation_during_World_War_II (538 words)

	Technology during World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the end, the war ended through a combination of attrition (of men and materiel), advances on the battlefield, and a breakdown of morale and productivity on the German home--front due to an effective naval blockade of her seaports.
		By World War II, the tank had evolved to a fearsome weapon which made the trench obsolete, just as the trench and the machine gun had made horse-mounted cavalry obsolete.
		World War I was the first conflict in which submarines were a serious weapon of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technological_escalation_during_World_War_I (1872 words)

	World War II - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War.
		The end of World War II is seen by many as marking the end of the United Kingdom's position as a global superpower and the catalyst for the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as the dominant powers in the world.
		Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/World_War_II (9126 words)

	Technological escalation during World War II: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Technological escalation (Technological escalation: the term technological escalation describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition,...
		Unlike technological escalation during World War I (technological escalation during World War I: more facts about this subject), it was generally believed that speed and firepower, not defenses or entrenchments, would bring the war to a quicker end.
		As in World War I, the French generals expected that armour would mostly serve to help infantry (infantry: An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot) break the static trench lines and storm machine gun (machine gun: A rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)) nests.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/technological_escalation_during_world_war_ii1 (1030 words)

	UNDERSTANDING THE U.S.-IRAQ CRISIS: I. The U.S. Rush to War
		The Bush administration says that a war against Iraq is needed for reasons of the threat of weapons of mass destruction, Iraq's support of terrorism, and human rights.
		The ostensible reason was to protect the Kurds in the north and the restive Shi'a population in the south from Iraqi attack by prohibiting the presence of fixed wing Iraqi military planes in the area.
		Not coincidentally, during a December 2002 visit to Ankara by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Turkey was promised lavish new economic aid, the construction of permanent military bases in the Kurdish southeast, and renewed diplomatic support, including a major U.S. campaign to back Turkey's entrance to the European Union.
	www.ips-dc.org /iraq/primer1.htm (3518 words)

	Real War 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		War is in the midst of an incredible identity crisis only matched by the development, roughly three thousand years ago, of ancient war from ritual (primitive) war that coincided with the invention of civilization and the subsequent fundamental changes, five hundred years ago, that led to modern war.
		During World War II the Japanese and the Germans experimented on humans with bioweapons and the British, Soviets, and Americans researched the area as well.
		War is an integral part of the international system as we know it, and it turns out that peacemaking justifies all sorts of war making in any case.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/cyborgcitizen/cycitpgs/realwar.html (6139 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 2000
		Or is it the objective of the war which defines it, with a total war aimed at the destruction of the enemy regime and its possible conquest whereas a limited war seeks only to resolve a conflict that does not endanger the survival of either belligerent?
		he United States seemed to understand this in World War II when President Franklin Roosevelt declared a strategy of "unconditional surrender" and "the destruction of the philosophies in those countries which are based on conquest and the subjugation of other people." This meant the removal of the Axis regimes and their replacement with democratic governments.
		World War II also saw the first signs of a strategic choice in force structure that would bedevil the military pursuit of political objectives throughout the postwar era.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/00summer/hawkins.htm (4846 words)

	Roland: War & Technology:4
		If the destructiveness of war is measured in human casualties, and if those casualties are plotted through modern history, then World War II stands out clearly as a turning point of historic proportions.
		But conventional, mechanized, high tech war between great powers, the kind of war that killed on an unprecedented scale in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and conditioned our current apprehensions of war, is indeed disappearing.
		Quincy Wright concluded in 1965 that the causes of war identified in his study still obtained: perception of threat, ideology, frustration over unsatisfactory conditions, belief in the utility of war or threats of war, and the necessity of violence to achieve higher goals of justice, law, and rights.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_4/roland4.html (2444 words)

	A DUBIOUS HERITAGE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During World War II, German failure to employ these techniques properly in the east was generally ascribed to Hitler's increasing obsession with holding ground.
		The ideological visions of the cold war and the mirror images of détente are alike giving way to a stress on the continuities of Russian history and a corresponding emphasis on Russian national character.
		Technological multipliers are the focus of the report of the European Security Study, Strengthening Conventional Deterrence in Europe: Proposals for the 1980s (New York, 1983).
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1985/mar-apr/showalter.html (8422 words)

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		Kriesberg argues that de-escalation initiatives are influenced by domestic circumstances, by the international context and by the relations between the protagonists.
		During the 1950s the American Public was intensely opposed to communism.
		The international scene post-World War II was sharply divided into two opposing camps, but by the 1970s this bipolar system had loosened considerably.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/peace/example/factors_prompting_de-escalation.htm (474 words)

	The War Street Journal
		Modern war, the editors continued, is particularly irritating because “we now live in an age in which television brings the inevitable ruins of war into everyone’s living room every night.” This has helped begin a national conversation about whether blowing up civilian infrastructure is morally wise.
		After the war, the paper was still complaining that air power was applied only gradually,” a statement that can only be read as an embrace of the killing of civilians, which increased as the war went on.
		One result of this war will be the rearming of the world, after a period in which it appeared that we might be in for a period of disarmament.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/rockwell1.html (4705 words)

	Vietnam War Statistics And Facts 4
		During the course of the battle, tons of bombs and napalm were dropped around Khe Sanh.
		During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life- workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls, members of the women's union, writers.
		During these early years, Giap led Party efforts at organization busting which, with the connivance of the French, emasculated competing non-communist nationalist organizations, killing perhaps some 10,00 individuals (although these figures come from surviving nationalist and may be exaggerated).
	25thaviation.org /id771.htm (13817 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American Economy (1991): 3p12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the 1950s the number of workers providing services grew to equal and then surpass the number producing goods.
		Coupled with technological innovations such as the invention of air conditioning, the migration spurred the development of "Sun Belt" cities such as Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona.
		Shopping centers multiplied, rising from eight at the end of World War II to 3,840 in 1960.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/ECO/1991/ch3_p12.htm (391 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 1999
		War may well be a ubiquitous part of the human condition, but war's permanence does not necessarily mean that the slaughters of the 20th century are permanent.[6]
		During the war in Chechnya, for example, insurgents offset their technological inferiority by threatening civilian hostages to force the Russians to meet various demands.[35]
		Although the extent to which the proliferation of long-distance, push-button war serves to replace that ethos with a new ethic is as yet uncertain, it is imperative that whatever emerges instills in tomorrow's soldiers those moral underpinnings which will further develop the application of ethical and legal norms in future conflicts.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99autumn/dunlap.htm (11708 words)

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		Elchibay, who found himself without political support in the face of the setbacks in the war, a steadily deteriorating economy, and opposition from groups outside the PFA, took refuge in his native village.
		Prior to meeting the Orcs, the Tauren were a proud, nomadic race, though it seems that they played little role in the grand dynamic of Azeroth for millennia.
		And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~tom7/periodbot/359.html (3593 words)

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