are one of the most common terror tactics used today. There are so many suicide bombings that take place throughout the world. For example‚ a suicide bomber killed 31 people at an army base near Baghdad in 2012. Another suicide bomber killed 19 people in Eastern Afghanistan when he attacked the Joint Patrol in 2012. Elsewhere‚ another suicide bomber killed 8 people‚ but wounded 100 people in a Nigerian church in 2012. Sometimes suicide bombings are executed successfully and become a tragedy to the
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bombing raids to cripple Germany’s manufacturing and supply machine‚ hoping to pave the way for the D-Day offensive. Allied bombing campaigns took heavy losses and were mostly ineffective‚ because allied fighters did not have the range to escort the bombers‚ and could not match up to Germany’s fighters in combat. The introduction of the P-51 Mustang‚ with its better maneuverability‚ longer range‚ and greater firepower‚
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MILITARY AIRCRAFT A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat: Combat aircraft are aircraft designed to destroy enemy equipment using their own armament. Combat aircraft are normally developed and procured only by military forces. Non-combat aircraft are aircraft not designed for combat as their primary function‚ but may carry weapons for self-defense
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convertible into bombers‚ and in 1926 the secret Lipetsk fighter-pilot school began operating. Erhard Milch organised rapid expansion‚ and following the 1933 Nazi seizure of power his subordinate Robert Knauss formulated a deterrence theory incorporating Douhet’s ideas and Tirpitz’s "risk theory"‚ which proposed a fleet of heavy bombers to deter a preventive attack by France and Poland before Germany could fully
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The Oxford Companion to World War II Oxford Reference. Oxford Reference‚ 2012. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. Douhet‚ Giulio. The Command of the Air. Washington‚ D.C.: Office of Air Force History‚ 1983. Print. Miller‚ Donald L. Masters of the Air: America ’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster‚ 2006. Print. Murray‚ Williamson. War in the Air‚ 1914-45. London: Cassell‚ 1999. Print. "Hugh Trenchard." Hugh Trenchard. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013. Documentation:
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Anscombe’s Acting With a Further Intention and Stout’s Acting While Merely Foreseeing Anscombe has already discussed how a special sense of the question “Why?”‚ can reveal an intentional action. However‚ her principle of further intention is a method of examining action by asking the question “Why?” in more complex terms. This approach begins with basic intention and extends through an action. For example‚ rather than simply stopping at‚ “Why are you moving your arm like that?” one can ask a
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capable of carrying out bold and destructive acts that at first glance appear to be unexplainable. What kind of person would sacrifice his or her own life in order to kill innocent people? What could possibly motivate a young person to become a suicide bomber? In the wake of many tragic events‚ it can be difficult to analyze objectively the causes and processes leading up to them. For many‚ understanding the motives behind suicide bombing comes dangerously close to excusing or approving it. It may seem
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The Doolittle Raid "Yesterday‚ December 7th‚ 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by Naval and Air forces of the Empire of Japan (Roosevelt)." Those were the famous words spoken by Franklin Roosevelt the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed. Roosevelt went on to say that because Japan and Hawaii are such a large distance apart‚ the attack was deliberately planned many weeks age. He also stated that during that time of planning
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scientists that had been working on the infamous V-2 rockets‚ as well as nuclear research. In addition‚ the USSR was also able to acquire some of the US’s bombers. For example‚ in 1944 three B-29 superfortresses‚ the same type of aircraft that dropped the atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ had landed in the USSR for emergency purposes. The bombers immediately became the property of Joseph Stalin and
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Anthony Walls Red Tails Movie / book review The movie Red Tails is a produced by George Lucas and Lucas films‚ it starred a great cast of current actors such as‚ Terrence Howard he played the character of Colonel A.J. Bullard‚ A.J’s character is based on Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis‚ Jr. was commander of the 332nd Fighter Group‚ composed entirely of Tuskegee Airmen. After the Army and Air Force separated‚ into different branches of military
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