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  2. Crud (game) - Wikipedia

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    Crud is a fast-paced game played on a snooker table (or, if unavailable, a billiards table), usually on military bases in several countries. [1] While the sport uses a billiards table and two balls, no cues are used. [2] The game's origins are not precisely known.

  3. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Maneuver warfare - a military strategy which attempts to defeat the enemy by incapacitating their decision-making through shock and disruption Motitus - A Motitus or Motti is a double envelopment manoeuvre, using the ability of light troops to travel over rough ground to encircle and defeat enemy troops with limited mobility.

  4. Snooker - Wikipedia

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    The word snooker was a well-established derogatory term used to describe inexperienced or first-year military personnel. In the early 20th century, snooker was predominantly played in the United Kingdom, where it was considered a "gentleman's sport" until the early 1960s before growing in popularity as a national pastime and eventually ...

  5. Neville Chamberlain (police officer) - Wikipedia

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    It was dubbed snooker—a derogatory nickname given to first-year cadets studying at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich that Chamberlain had heard about from a young Royal Artillery subaltern visiting the mess. Chamberlain later retorted to a fellow player who had failed to pot a coloured ball: "Why, you're a regular snooker".

  6. Cue sports in India - Wikipedia

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    This is a certainly a possibility." The Billiards and Snooker Federation of India (BFSI) states that Ooty is "the most credible birthplace for the game of Snooker", however, the federation rejects the theory that the game was already established in Ooty. The BSFI also states that, based on available evidence, the first snooker game in India ...

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  8. Blotto game - Wikipedia

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    In 1938 Borel and Ville published a particular optimal strategy (the "disk" solution). [2] The game was studied after the Second World War by scholars in Operation Research, and became a classic in game theory. [3] Gross and Wagner's 1950 [4] research memorandum states Borel's optimal strategy, and coined the fictitious Colonel Blotto and Enemy ...

  9. US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a ...

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    The head of the U.S. military in Africa vigorously defended the country’s counterterrorism strategy on the continent and vowed to press forward with it despite a wave of criticism and a drift ...