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  2. James Corum - Wikipedia

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    Corum became professor of Comparative Military Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Alabama.During 2005 he was both a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow of the Levershulme Program on the Changing Nature of War in the Department of International Politics at Oxford. [3]

  3. Modern warfare - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear war is a type of warfare which relies on nuclear weapons. There are two types of warfare in this category. In a limited nuclear war, a small number of weapons are used in a tactical exchange aimed primarily at enemy combatants. In a full-scale nuclear war, large numbers of weapons are used in an attack aimed at entire countries.

  4. Effects-based operations - Wikipedia

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    The measure of effectiveness used to determine success of the attacks was not whether all the facilities were destroyed, but whether they were actually performing their intended function. This example and others are completely described in "Effects-Based Operations: Change in the Nature of Warfare."

  5. Military history - Wikipedia

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    The dynamic nature of the discipline of military history is largely due to the rapid change of military forces, and the art and science of managing them, as well as the frenetic pace of technological development that had taken place during the period known as the Industrial Revolution, and more recently in the nuclear and information ages.

  6. Effects of war - Wikipedia

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    War making resulted in state making in four ways: [66] War making that culminated in the elimination of local rivals gave rise to one centralized, coercive strong state power that had a large-scale monopoly on violence. Eventually, this large-scale monopoly on violence held by the state was extended to serve the state's clients or supporters.

  7. Generations of warfare - Wikipedia

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    The generations of warfare are sometimes dubbed as "4GW" or "5GW". The term originated in 1989 to describe "the changing face of war" over time, initially only referring to the emergence of the fourth generation, but eventually seeing the addition of a fifth generation. [1] [2] There are five generations of warfare:

  8. Military - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps its most enduring maxim is Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum (let he who desires peace prepare for war). Due to the changing nature of combat with the introduction of artillery in the European Middle Ages, and infantry firearms in the Renaissance, attempts were made to define and identify those strategies, grand tactics, and ...

  9. Lawrence Freedman - Wikipedia

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    Under his supervision, generations of students, as well as officers in Her Majesty's Forces learnt about the changing nature of war, and Britain's military history. In his early academic career, Professor Freedman concentrated on the Soviet strategic threat, Britain's nuclear deterrent and the evolution of the trans-Atlantic Alliance.

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