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    after mysterious explosions and fired destroyed the North Dakota town of Willistin‚ the united states‚ claiming self defense‚ declared war on Canada. The European union negotiated a truce but irritated Canadian civilians are now waging guerilla warfare in hopes of restarting the American-Canadian War. The Combat Brigade Team (CBD) is in charge of launching a counterinsurgency campaign against the Canadian guerillas that want to provoke the US military into war‚ and has asked me to prepare rules

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    Throughout the eight-year war‚ the FLN effectively utilized guerilla warfare‚ conducted urban warfare to control the capital city‚ and successfully used terrorist tactics to coerce a French overreaction that brought condemnation from the international community. Their tactics initially relied on asymmetric guerilla tactics in the hinterlands of Algeria in an attempt to establish control. The FLN was initially successful but ultimately

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    techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called peace. In 2003‚ Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth biggest problem facing humanity for the next fifty years. In the 1832 treatise On War‚ Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human nature

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    The decrypted telegram says the following: “We intent to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding‚ we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together‚ make peace together‚ generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas‚ New Mexico‚ and Arizona. The settlement in detail

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    Background The events of September 11 impacted international polices and the regional situation within Pakistan necessitated change to its internal policies. Pakistan found that it had no risk-free options: all polices were full of danger and risk of varying degrees. The test was to adopt such a policy and course of action that could minimize the risk and offered the best possible option in the given circumstances. Geo-strategic location of Pakistan and links with Taliban administration absolved

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    wars in Libya and Syria. It is important to realise from the outset that the war on terror is focused on combating terrorism almost solely through the use of hard power. Technologically superior armies have been used to fight insurgents that while not necessarily originating from the country of fighting are living in and amongst the population resulting in a situation of asymmetric warfare. There have been substantial military victories in both Iraq and Afghanistan which despite their success have

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    traditional weapons and tactics of warfare‚ such as carpet bombing. There has been an ongoing heated debate on whether or not the US should continue their use of drones in warfare. The use of drones in warfare should continue to be used by the US because they have multiple advantages. One of the reasons why drones are a huge benefit for the US is because of their precision and accuracy. An article that is in favor of the US continuing their use of drones in warfare states‚ “... since the United States

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    bring about heated debate in the 21st Century. While many scholars see Clausewitz’s On War as an indispensible military thought in the modern times‚ others view it as an obsolete or morally repellent argument for unlimited‚ unrestrained and brutal warfare.[1] Notwithstanding the opposition of present times‚ this renowned work is considered incomplete and its lack of prescriptive contents has subjected it to interpretations and discourses. Facing this encumbrance‚ the study of On War has to go beyond

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    America’s enemies no longer hail from a specific country nor do they wear a distinct uniform‚ these soldiers fight among the civilians. This type of fighting is called Asymmetric warfare‚ which is war between a professional army and an insurgency. The fact of the matter is that through fighting an enemy that resorts to guerilla warfare can result in accidental civilian deaths. One major issue that clouds over the minds of many is the use of drone strikes. Drone strikes have been used to kill suspected

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    closely with their naval comrades to accomplish various missions. The Marine Corps handles a variety of missions which puts the United States one step ahead of all the rest and keeps the land of the free safe. The Marines love to handle amphibious warfare‚ but when there is a world crisis the Marines act as an expeditionary unit and are always ready to respond. They are the smallest branch in the military yet the few and the proud always seem to excel in their abilities to accomplish their mission

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