World War I: Trenches – Weaponry and Tactics Tactics – Germans * Gases: Mustard gas was the most poisonous chemical used in the war. It was odourless and took about 12 hours to take effect. Gases caused internal and external bleeding and completely burn the throats and lungs. * Tunnelling: Specialists dug tunnels under the enemy defenses and place mines to collapse the opposing trench. * Scorched Earth: Retreating German troops applied scorched earth policy to prevent any use of facilities
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Weapons of the Civil War Many traditional weapons were used in the Civil War‚ from knives to muskets‚ and bayonets to cannons. There was new technology that was introduced into warfare‚ through the Civil War‚ like rifled gun barrels‚ the Minie ball‚ and repeating rifles. A rifled gun barrel is the barrel of a rifle which has ridges grooved into it‚ so when the bullet is fired‚ it has more stability‚ which leads to more damage. A Minie Ball is a bullet for a rifle that has grooves around the entire
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64-year victory. Before an audience of more than 1‚500 Korean War veterans‚ and nearly 20‚000 service members‚ government officials‚ civilians‚ families‚ and students the field was scattered with fighting positions‚ self propelled artillery‚ tanks‚ howitzers‚ and other tactical vehicles. The re-enactment portrayed the intentional demolition of the Waegwan railway bridge‚ ground battles between North Korean forces against ROK‚ UN and U.S. forces‚ gun battles‚ hand-to-hand combat‚ air strikes‚ field artillery
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More or Less: Military Defense Spending David Dmytryszyn Baker College More or Less: Military Defense Spending The 9/11 attacks forced Americans to have to start worrying about their homeland being attacked at anytime. This added to military spending in the billions. That along with the war in Iraq and the numerous military bases and troops stationed around the world has sent the military spending budget well over 500 billion a year.(globalissues.org‚ 2009) 500 hundred is the budget but the
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Ancient and modern civilization at war for the soul of Japan is the main idea that revolves around the whole plot of the movie. The story takes place in the year 1876 where a rebellion took place in Yoshino Province. The revolt is primarily due to the rapid modernization of Japan through having an opened border for trading with the rest of the world. The movie encompasses the transition from Tokugawa shogunate up to the Meiji era as it illustrates the difference between the traditional ways of life
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The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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In the years since 1945‚ it has become increasingly evident that the alliance between the British and the United States was often in disagreement over the correct strategy to insure the final defeat of the Axis powers. Early on‚ both British and American staffs could agree that Germany represented a greater military threat than Japan‚ but they did not often see eye to eye on the strategy that would most efficiently defeat them. The Americans were early and persistent advocates of a direct strategy
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• The Battle of Gettysburg was held in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania • The battle started on July 1st‚ 1863 to July 3rd‚ 1863. It started at 4 pm on July 1st but on July 2nd‚ Longstreet was ordered by Commander Robert E. Lee to attack. Although he was instructed to attack‚ he was very slow to get his men and weapons ready and finally started to attack around 4 pm and the fighting came to an end at about 10:30 pm. The next morning on July 3rd the fighting started again at 4:30 am and finally the battle
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Operation Market Garden The date was September 17th 1944‚ America and allied forces decided to conduct a two stage operation called “Market Garden”. At the time this was to be the largest airborne attack with up to 34‚ 000 men to complete the attack. Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery was newly promoted on September first and believed that one big push was the way to end the war. He constructed a plan to have Soldiers from Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton’s First Allied Airborne Army to drop
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Dean J. Keveles SOS-110-OL‚ Living in the Information Age Professor John Bradley 02 May 2004 Written Assignment 1 In the last decade‚ the US Army has incorporated information technology‚ rapidly‚ into nearly every facet of daily operations. It is very difficult to limit an essay to approximately 500 words for such a subject of discussion. Information technology has changed the way the Army does business in several areas. Let us discuss just three areas in particular: Personnel‚ Training
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