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Total body disruption is the acute, fatal destruction of the body. [1] Synonymous terminology from the field of emergency medical services (EMS) is gross dismemberment . [ 2 ]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word pogrom entered English from Yiddish which borrowed it from Russian.The OED gives two meanings for the word: [6] In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against ...
[1] [2] This definition covers any murder of any number of persons by any government. [1] [2] Rummel created democide as an extended term to include forms of government murder not covered by genocide. According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century. [3] [4]
[Genocide is] the planned destruction, since the mid-nineteenth century, of a racial, national, or ethnic group as such, by the following means: (a) selective mass murder of elites or parts of the population; (b) elimination of national (racial, ethnic) culture and religious life with the intent of "denationalization"; (c) enslavement, with the ...
Sack: the destruction and looting of a city, usually after an assault. Safe-guard: individual soldiers or detachments placed to prevent resources (often farms full of crops and livestock) from being looted or plundered; Salients: a pocket or "bulge" in a fortified or battle line. The enemy's line facing a salient is referred to as a "re-entrant".
Days after warning that it couldn't assure diplomats' safety in the event of war, the news of the day is that North Korea is preparing for a missile test on April 10. Another day, another act set ...
Khurbn eyrope (חורבן אײראָפּע) "Destruction of Europe", is the term for the Holocaust in Yiddish. The term uses the word khurbn (colloquially spelled "churban"), a loanword: Hebrew: חֻרְבָּן ḥurbān "destruction".
In U.S. military terminology, the unintentional destruction of allied or neutral targets is called "friendly fire". The U.S. military follows a technology-based process for estimating and mitigating collateral damage. The software used is known as "FAST-CD" or "Fast Assessment Strike Tool—Collateral Damage". [22]