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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).
Eric Chewning is an American businessman, veteran, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, and Executive Vice President of Strategy & Development for HII, an all-domain defense and technologies partner and America’s largest shipbuilder. [1] [2] [3]
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.
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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.
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The book was reviewed in major newspapers, [1] [2] magazines, [3] and professional journals. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Although it advocated a significant departure from existing defense policies, it received a favorable review from George F. Kennan , widely perceived as one of the major architects of the US approach to the Cold War .
A governor (speed control) control lever was used to adjust the engine revolutions, and a gearbox lever was used with positions for ahead, neutral and reverse. Settings for the engine governor controls were "slow" 250 RPM, "half" 600 RPM, "full" 800 RPM and "emergency full" 900 RPM, and those settings were possible with the gearboxes in ahead ...