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Virtual war signifies the increased use of and dependence on technology in the course of warfare. It includes the time/space separation between an attacker and the intended target which results in the "sanitization" of war. The concept has gained notoriety amongst policy makers and academics who study the Revolution in Military Affairs.
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder is a 2019 nonfiction book concerning military strategy.In one reviewer's words, it "criticizes the rigidity of Western strategic thinking and its overreliance on 'traditional' military approaches, its conventional military forces and doctrines, including overspending on technologically advanced platforms".
Keegan discusses early warfare, the proliferation of Bronze Age warfare and then Iron Age warfare (Greek hoplites and phalanxes, Roman legions and maniples).He also talks about the conquests of the "horse peoples", first under the Assyrians, then the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids; then in the 7th century the Arabs conquer a lot of territory, followed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan ...
Book sales were used to create the ARAC (Association Républicaine des Anciens Combattants). [6]: xi The novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway. In 1942, he wrote that he was influenced by its style: The only good war book to come out during the last war was Under Fire by Henri Barbusse. He was ...
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Warcross is a young adult science fiction novel by Marie Lu, which was published on September 17, 2017 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Warcross is the first book in the duology of the same name, set in a cyberpunk future, New Yorker 18-year-old Emika Chen works as a "hunter" (a kind of bounty hunter) who earns her living making arrests for minor crimes.