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Their political freedom was secured by Athens’ reliance on labor-intensive naval warfare against the Persians and other enemies.
For one thing, technology-intensive warfare substitutes machines for soldiers, reducing the number of American casualties.
Though the Thai-Cambodian border battles have involved tanks and heavy artillery, they are unlikely to degenerate into open, large-scale warfare.
Not surprisingly, one of the last remaining bastions of unequal pay today is in competitive sport, which is a ritualized form of warfare.
Similarly, a taboo against using poisonous gases in warfare developed after World War I, and the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons.
The killing had spurred fear that tribal warfare would break out, as Younis was part of the powerful Obaida tribe, which lives around Benghazi.
An aspect of such modernization could be seen in the 2006 Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah, where tank warfare was rendered obsolete by missiles and Katyushas.
Given the West’s record of horrendous warfare and often brutal imperialism, this seems unlikely.
It would be less concerning if the rhetorical warfare were contained to social media.
Renewed conflict in Abkhazia would not only bring the risk of open warfare with Russia, but strain relations with Armenia, as there are near to 50,000 Armenians in Abkhazia who support the breakaway government.
So the government in Baku is far more prepared to respond to renewed warfare than it was in the 1990’s.
Yet siege warfare is being used with impunity: Amnesty International reports that more than 200 people have been killed by starvation, shelling, and a lack of medical supplies in Yarmouk, a district of Damascus, as President Bashar al-Assad’s government intentionally blocks life-saving aid.
We are haunted by images of terror and warfare.
On the limits of power, Tolstoy might have thought a bit more about what Britain’s World War II-era Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery later called the first law of warfare.
Even as open warfare is reduced, stealth warfare intensifies and spreads.
I became an expert in tank warfare.
The warfare of the past centuries, in particular the bloody ethnic cleansings of the past decade, is not valid anymore.
The PLA has spent an inordinate amount of its rapidly growing resources in areas that give it an asymmetrical advantage, such as electronic warfare and human intelligence.
Such tactics are aimed at confronting an enemy that is armed with the most advanced weapons systems, but is vulnerable to sabotage and asymmetrical attack, even latter-day guerilla warfare.
Not only did Russian intelligence fail to catch the coming Georgian attack on South Ossetia, but Russia’s electronic warfare system and ill-equipped ground troops looked like outdated Soviet-era relics.
ISIS has allegedly trained 400-600 fighters for “external operations” involving urban guerrilla warfare, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), surveillance, counter-security, and forgery.
The internal warfare may be quieter since John Kelly took over as White House Chief of Staff and imposed more order in the West Wing.
Ukraine is not Bosnia, where the constitution emerged out of peace talks that ended years of bloody warfare following the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Periodic civil strife and rebellion were not eliminated, but only in Vietnam was the longevity of a dynasty a cloak for inextinguishable internecine warfare.
By the time WWI erupted, it should have been clear that industrialization and the transportation revolution had transformed warfare.
In this respect, drone warfare reinforces the perverse nature of “asymmetrical wars.”
During those fifty years, however, the map of world conflict has been rewritten and the means of warfare transformed, while Japan remains locked in viewpoints forged in the trauma of wartime defeat and US occupation.
France, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and Israel have stepped up military and technical support, including the recent provision of helicopters and night-vision equipment for jungle warfare to fight the group, whose campaign of terror has cost 5,000 deaths in the past five years.
In the case of defence and warfare, unpredictability includes the possibility of young men dying in action.
Sanctions on those involved in electronic warfare against the opposition's social media are not the answer to the shelling of civilian neighborhoods in Homs and Deraa.
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