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The terms "soft target" and "hard target" are flexible in nature and the distinction between the two is not always clear. [2] However, typical "soft targets" are civilian sites where unarmed people congregate in large numbers; examples include national monuments, hospitals, schools, sporting arenas, hotels, cultural centers, movie theaters, cafés and restaurants, places of worship, nightclubs ...
The authors define a "soft target" as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes" [1] and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a soft target of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s.
Recent mass shootings in the U.S. have occurred in so-called "soft targets," public spaces with little security in place to stop an active shooter. Tung Yin, professor of law at Lewis and Clark ...
Sample from a kinetic energy weapon test. A piece of polycarbonate plastic weighing 7 grams ( 1 ⁄ 4 oz) was fired at an aluminium block at 7 km/s (23,000 ft/s), giving it muzzle energy of 171,500 J (126,500 ft⋅lbf); a typical bullet has muzzle energy of a few thousand joules, with the enormous .950 JDJ reaching 20,000 J (15,000 ft⋅lbf).
The design worked reasonably well against soft targets but was completely unsuitable for anti-tank warfare. [ 7 ] The BT-42 ended up ultimately failing at the original goal to have some sort of domestic armour production to combat the Soviet one this being realised when the tank became utterly ineffective in tank-tank combat [ 8 ] and later ...
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The term "soft skills" was created by the U.S. Army in the late 1960s. It refers to any skill that does not employ the use of machinery. The military realized that many important activities were included within this category, and in fact, the social skills necessary to lead groups, motivate soldiers, and win wars were encompassed by skills they had not yet catalogued or fully studied.
The San Francisco 49ers are reportedly displeased with how soft their designated practice field is in Las Vegas ahead of the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)