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  2. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Pitched battle; Pocket: see "salient". Pyrrhic victory: a victory paid for so dearly that it potentially could lead to a later defeat ("a battle won, a war lost"). Raid; Rank: a single line of soldiers. Reconnaissance; Reconnoitre: to go to an area (reconnoitering) to find out information of the exact location of an enemy force.

  3. Erhard Seminars Training - Wikipedia

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    That first full day on the simple class agreements was painfully enlightening. It became obvious that much of human misery is a function of broken agreements – not keeping your word, or someone else not keeping theirs." [17] Sessions lasted from 9:00 a.m. to midnight, or to the early hours of the morning, with one meal-break. [18]

  4. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Expediency – War is a matter of expedients – von Moltke; Fog, friction, chance – War is characterized by fog, friction, and chance; Golden Bridge – To leave an opponent an opportunity to withdraw in order to not force them to act out of desperation – Sun Tzu; Iron Calculus of War – Resistance = Means x Will – Clausewitz

  5. Moral Injury: The Recruits - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    But in war, asking troops to meet the ideals and values they carry into battle – always be honorable, always be courageous, always treat civilians with respect, never harm a non-combatant – may itself cause moral injury when these ideals collide with the reality of combat. Accomplishing the mission may mean placing innocent civilians at risk.

  6. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    It’s not attractive,” said Michael Castellana, a psychotherapist who provides moral injury therapy at the U.S. Naval Medical Center in San Diego. “But it’s the truth.” ‘Bad Things Happen In War’ Until now, the most common wound of war was thought to be PTSD, an involuntary reaction to a remembered life-threatening fear.

  7. Principles of war - Wikipedia

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    The first principle has always been stated as pre-eminent and the second is usually considered more important than the remainder, which are not listed in any order of importance. The 2011 edition of British Defence Doctrine (BDD) [ 9 ] states and explains the principles with the following preface: "Principles of War guide commanders and their ...

  8. Right of conquest - Wikipedia

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    Recognition by the losing party was not a requirement: "the right of acquisition vested by conquest did not depend on the consent of the dispossessed state". [5] However, the alternative was annexation (part or in whole) which if protested as unlawful, a peace treaty was the only means to legitimize conquest in a time of war.

  9. Law of war - Wikipedia

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    The idea that there is a right to war concerns, on the one hand, the jus ad bellum, the right to make war or to enter war, assuming a motive such as to defend oneself from a threat or danger, presupposes a declaration of war that warns the adversary: war is a loyal act, and on the other hand, jus in bello, the law of war, the way of making war ...