An Overview In the years since 1945‚ it has become increasingly evident that the Grand Alliance forged between the British Commonwealth and the United States was often beset with 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 the Reich. The Americans were
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Specify the key functional areas of Human Resources Management The human resource management arena incorporates several functional areas. Staffing‚ Total Rewards‚ Employee Relations‚ and Safety are the functional areas in which Human Resource (HR) professionals look to improve the workforce. Staffing provides a sufficient supply of qualified individuals to fill jobs in an organization. Staffing also defines personnel needs‚ recruits applicants and screens interviewees. Some function of staffing
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose While the Gandhi /Nehru faction of Congress has garnered much of the credit for India’s freedom struggle‚ it is important to remember that India’s freedom movement was in fact a movement of the masses and there were a number of great leaders with fierce patriotism and great visionary ideas who sacrificed their entire lives for the nation’s cause. We continue our series on the freedom fighters‚ on the occasion of Netaji’s 102nd birthday. -Jyotsna Kamat January 26
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Japanese occupation of Malaya The Japanese Empire commenced the Pacific War with the invasion of Kota Bahru in Kelantan on 8 December 1941 at 00:25‚[1] about 90 minutes before the Attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii at 07:48 on 7 December Hawaii time‚ or 01:48 on 8 December Malayan time. They then invaded the island of Borneo in mid December 1941‚ landing on the west coast near Miri in Sarawak;[2] invasion was completed by 23 January 1942 when they landed at Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo on the east
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concrete‚ and glass covered many bodies. Huge amounts of airborne dust severely limited the rescue teams’ visibility. Upon seeing the horrible tragedy‚ the rescue teams compared the scene to a war zone. The rescue teams‚ which included the Fire Brigade‚ EMS units and doctors from five local hospitals‚ rushed at the scene and a 14-hour
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The Battle of Fredericksburg David P. Wrighten‚ CPT‚ MS Class 09-002 Small Group 6‚ MAJ Sims 03 April 2009 Abstract In early December 1862‚ the Union Army of the Potomac had massed on the northern bank of the Rappahannock River as it was in position to strike the Confederate capital of Richmond‚ Virginia. The Union also position themselves to cut off the Confederate Army’s main supply route for the import and export of goods in the south. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia confronted
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Another challenge is an outdated ASF framework to operationalize a force. It is now fourteen years since the ASF Framework was formulated and the operating environment has changed since then. The framework outlines the scenarios to guide the deployment of the ASF. However‚ these scenarios do not conform to the current environment. Currently‚ all the UN/AU peacekeeping missions in the African continent fall into scenario five and under chapter VII of the UN Charter. Therefore‚ scenario one to four
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a bloody civil war ensued‚ fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists‚ as the rebels were called‚ received aid from fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union‚ as well as from International Brigades‚ composed of volunteers from Europe and the United States. The war was an outcome of a polarization of Spanish life and politics that had developed over previous decades. On one side (the Nationalist) were most Roman Catholics‚ important elements
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Terrorism is not a Muslim Monopoly Kamlesh Kumar Singh Research Scholar Deptt. of Sociology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 Email-kamleshsingh206@gmail.com M.N. - 09369240262‚ 09026399178 Abstract “All Muslims may not be terrorists‚ but all terrorists are Muslims”. This comment‚ frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty‚ if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. First there is nothing new about terrorism. The term
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Leadership Summary In August 1962‚ the 20th Main Infantry Regiment was created under the command of Colonel (COL) A. Ames and Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) J. Chamberlain. The regiment was comprised of soldiers from around the state of Main and was initially comprised of 1621 men. The unit would fight in some of the initial bloodiest battles in the Civil War to include Antietam‚ Fredericksburg‚ and Chancellorsville. LTC Chamberlain‚ a college professor with no military training‚ actively sought out
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