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  2. Combat effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Overall combat effectiveness or combat power is the product of a forces strength and the combat effectiveness of that force. Combat effectiveness explains how a numerically weak force can prevail over another that is much stronger. I also explains how relatively small units can have a significant impact on the outcome of a conflict.

  3. Sailing ship tactics - Wikipedia

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    A ship that depended on the wind for its motive power could not hope to ram. A sailing vessel could not ram unless it was running before a good breeze. In a light wind, the charge would be ineffective, and it could not be made at all from leeward. It could still board, and the Spanish did for long make it their main object to run their bow over ...

  4. Race condition - Wikipedia

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    Critical race conditions often happen when the processes or threads depend on some shared state. Operations upon shared states are done in critical sections that must be mutually exclusive. Failure to obey this rule can corrupt the shared state. A data race is a type of race condition. Data races are important parts of various formal memory models.

  5. Withdrawal (military) - Wikipedia

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    An effective tactical method is the demoralisation of the enemy by defeating its army and routing it from the battlefield. Once a force has become disorganized and has lost its ability to fight, the victors can chase down the enemy's remnants and attempt to cause as many casualties or to take as many prisoners as possible.

  6. Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

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    For example, the power-handling ability of a resistor may be greatly derated when applied in high-altitude aircraft to obtain adequate service life. A sudden fail-open fault can cause multiple secondary failures if it is fast and the circuit contains an inductance ; this causes large voltage spikes , which may exceed 500 volts.

  7. Aztec warfare - Wikipedia

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    Gold-silver-copper alloy figure of an Aztec warrior, who holds a dartthrower, darts, and a shield. Aztec warfare concerns the aspects associated with the military conventions, forces, weaponry and strategic expansions conducted by the Late Postclassic Aztec civilizations of Mesoamerica, including particularly the military history of the Aztec Triple Alliance involving the city-states of ...

  8. W and Z bosons - Wikipedia

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    bosons (see weak mixing angle), each vertex factor includes a factor , where is the third component of the weak isospin of the fermion (the "charge" for the weak force), is the electric charge of the fermion (in units of the elementary charge), and is the weak mixing angle.

  9. Byzantine battle tactics - Wikipedia

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    The Magyars and Pechenegs were known to fight as bands of light horsemen, armed with bow, javelin and scimitar as well as being accomplished in ambush and the use of horsemen to scout ahead of the army. In battle they advanced in small scattered bands which would harass the front line of the army, charging only if they discovered a weak point.