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Meadows started with the observation that there are levers, or places within a complex system (such as a firm, a city, an economy, a living being, an ecosystem, an ecoregion) where a "small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything" (compare: constraint in the sense of the theory of constraints).
Civilian-based defense, according to Professor Gene Sharp, a scholar of non-violent struggle, is a "policy [in which] the whole population and the society's institutions become the fighting forces.Their weaponry consists of a vast variety of forms of psychological, economic, social, and political resistance and counter-attack.
In December 2007, shortly after the ALP Rudd government was sworn in, the Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, directed the Department of Defence to begin work on the white paper. [5] While the white paper was originally due to be completed in December 2008, it was delayed until 2009 due to the volume of work required.
The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a short 1904 book by the British Army officer Ernest Swinton. Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF) and his command of fifty men are given the task to defend Duffer's Drift, a natural ford to a river. A large force of Boers, unknown to BF, is moving toward his position. This scenario is played out six separate ...
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The drafters’ intent was that collective force approved and organized by the Security Council would substitute for unilateral uses of force by states. [1] However, some states were concerned that use of the veto power by one of the Council's permanent members might prevent that body from taking necessary action, and they insisted upon inserting into the Charter an explicit right of self defense.
He won it bigly. President-elect Donald Trump has nabbed the highest raw count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential hopeful ever, according to projections of the 2024 election.. As ...
The Cane as a Weapon was first published on or around 1912 in the United States; some works that mention the book list release dates as late as 1914. [3] [4] The book was put out by The Army & Navy Publishing Company, which continued to publish the book after Cunningham's death. [5] In 2006, an expanded edition was published through lulu.com.