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unusual facts about warfare



A. Michael Mennim

He took part in jungle warfare in Burma during the advance on Mandalay and was involved in planning for the invasion

Albert Hull

However, during World War 2 John Randall and Harry Boot built on Hull's concept to develop the modern cavity magnetron, the first device which could produce high power at microwave frequencies, and the resulting centimeter-band radar proved a crucial advantage for the Allies in aerial warfare.

Aray, Lebanon

The name of the village, Aray, is derived from the Greek god of warfare, Ares.

Baltic Defence College

The Dean of the Baltic Defence College since January 2009 has been James Corum, an American scholar of warfare and air power history.

Bi-Beast

The Bi-Beast is an android with two heads (one atop the other - the top skull is given knowledge of warfare while the bottom skull was given a knowledge of culture) created many years ago by an avian race that were in turn a sub-species of the Inhumans.

BrickArms

BrickArms makes a variety of minifigure compatible accessories including an M4 carbine, M21 Sniper Rifle, M1 Garand, M84 grenades, M1 Helmet, Stahlhelm, Minigun, AK-47, M3 Grease Gun, M16, and a Combat Shotgun, along with many other items related to warfare.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Most of the music for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was written by British composer Stephen Barton, who had also contributed to film scores by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Canada in the Cold War

The Army began to acquire new equipment, such as the LAV-III, Bison APC and the Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicle as it transitioned to fighting irregular warfare instead of the large tank battles once feared would rage across Western Europe.

David Glantz

Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983 and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986.

Emergency Management in Australia

This was done in response to Giulio Douhet’s theories on aerial warfare that “the bombers will always get through”.

Flight commander

This delineation of roles came into being very early in the history of aerial warfare, as Oswald Boelcke, Roderic Dallas, and Mick Mannock all derived the basic tactics of successful air to air combat from their flying experiences during World War I circa 1916.

Fu Hsing Kang College

The Political Warfare Cadres Academy (政治作戰學校), also known as Fu Hsing Kang College (復興崗, "Renaissance Hill"), is a military academy in Beitou District, Taipei, Republic of China.

George Decker

According to his Army biography, highlights of his tenure were supervising augmentations to meet the crisis in Berlin (surrounding the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961), increasing special warfare forces, initiating new divisional and forward depot concepts, and expanding the Army to sixteen divisions.

Into the Valley

Local legend still persists that the valley mentioned is a reference to the village of High Valleyfield, known locally as "the Valley", a village with a reputation for "mini warfare" between its own residents and those of nearby towns and villages (namely Torryburn, Rosyth, Oakley and Inverkeithing), near Skids' home town of Dunfermline.

Johannes Sibertus Kuffler

In England he spent much effort promoting a 'secret weapon' (torpedo or submarine) for naval warfare, petioning Richard Cromwell.

Joseph Maguire

Following Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S), where he graduated as Honor Man - Class 93, Rear Adm. Maguire served in Underwater Demolition Team Twenty One, SEAL Team Two, SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team Two, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Naval Special Warfare Group Two, and later as Deputy Commander, Special Operations Command Pacific, and Deputy Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command.

Journal of Electronic Defense

It was established in 1978 and is published by the Association of Old Crows, an international aerospace and electronic warfare association based in the United States.

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

In 1960, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) announced that the HU2K was the frontrunner for a large anti-submarine warfare contract; the Canadian Treasury Board had approved an initial procurement of 12 units for $14.5 million.

Leningrad Military District

Warfare.ru reported that the brigade, based at Vladimirsky Lager, was a redesignation of the 42nd Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment.

Les Fisher

Fisher returned to RAAF Base Edinburgh in 1987 as Commander Maritime Patrol Group, and then served as the Commandant Australian Defence Force Warfare Centre between 1990 and 1991.

Marakkalage

The name Marakkalage derives from the type of craft Marakkar (Marakkalam in Tamil means Wooden Ship) used in trade and warfare by the rulers of the Kuru Mandala coast (the region of the Kurus) and Sri Lanka.

Mc Kresha

He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who rose to fame after releasing "Lyrical Warfare" and "Lej Flleshat", both of which has had over two million views on YouTube.

Military logistics

The Kargil Conflict in 1999 between India and Pakistan also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) is one of the most recent examples of high altitude warfare in mountainous terrain that posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides.

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) of the United States Navy is located in Orlando, Florida in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Noyan

They were sometimes called emir or bey in the Ulus of Jochi, the Ilkhanate and the Chagatai Khanate while the Yuan records gave the equivalent as guanren since their main task was waging warfare.

Nyo Mya

During his years abroad, he worked as a Burmese language lecturer at Yale University's eastern department, as a Burmese language military news broadcaster, publisher of Burma News (1942–43), adviser of Burma in Washington D.C., chief of Burma department of psychological warfare (1944–45) in Ledo, India.

Operations Coordinating Board

The board's membership was to include the Under Secretary of State, who was to chair the board, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the President's Special Assistant for Psychological Warfare.

Paluma-class survey motor launch

Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, the 2009 Department of Defence white paper, proposed replacing the Palumas, along with the RAN's patrol and mine warfare vesseks, with a single class of multi-role offshore combatant vessels (OCVs).

Pat Proctor

ProSIM is known for its simulations of modern warfare, including such titles as BCT Commander, Armored Task Force, and Air Assault Task Force.

Permit-class submarine

In "Project Nobska," the Committee on Undersea Warfare of the United States National Academy of Sciences considered the lessons learned from various prototypes and experimental platforms.

Pike and shot

By the end of the fifteenth century, those late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War and Burgundian Wars dominated warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss and Landsknecht mercenary pikeman, and the emerging artillery corps of heavy cannons, which were rapidly improving in technological sophistication.

Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

After the Civil War, the fortress would no longer play a direct role in warfare, though the presidio walls would continue to serve as sought-out refuge by settlers until Geronimo's surrender in 1886.

Pride of Carthage

Delbrück, Hans, Warfare in Antiquity, 1920, ISBN 0-8032-9199-X

Psyche-Out

He enlisted in the Army and was posted to the Deceptive Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, and there continued his pioneering work in the field of wave-induced behavior modification.

Quadrigatus

The choice of Janus for these coins is believed to coincide with the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, indicating the absence of warfare, a rare occasion.

Richard E. Cavazos

In 1985, General Cavazos was appointed to the Chemical Warfare Review Committee by President Reagan.

RM Poole

In 1956, it was expanded and was renamed the Joint Service Amphibious Warfare Centre (JSAWC) Sometime in the early 1960s, it was renamed Amphibious Training Unit Royal Marines (ATURM) The Technical Training Wing was moved from Eastney to Poole in 1973 and the base became Royal Marines Poole.

Roger Tubby

During the war, he was in the Board of Economic Warfare and when that became the Foreign Economic Administration, a combination of BEW and Lend-Lease, he became assistant to the administrator, Leo Crowley.

Sarajevo Haggadah

It survived in an underground bank vault during the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces (Siege of Sarajevo – the longest siege in the history of modern warfare).

Sea King helicopter

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, an anti-submarine warfare helicopter operated by the Brazilian, Italian, Japanese and US navies

Self-propelled artillery

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade (the Experimental Mechanized Force) after the end of the War.

Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War is a nonfiction scientific warfare book written by award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor, Jeffrey A. Lockwood.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

The ship's helicopter pad and telescopic hangar accommodates one Kamov Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter, NATO codename Helix.

Spiritual warfare

Other notable expositions on spiritual warfare were written by Mark Bubeck and Neil Anderson.

The Road to Glory

The Road to Glory is a 1936 dramatic film depiction of World War I trench warfare in France directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore and June Lang, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox.

USS Maddox

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron (Gulf of Tonkin Incident), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Resolution).

War and the Future

The second part, titled "The War in Italy (August 1916)," describes the city of Udine and the mountain warfare of the Isonzo front as well as visits to Verona, Venice, and Milan.

Weapons and Warfare

Purnell's illustrated encyclopedia of modern Weapons and Warfare is a partwork originating with Purnell in 1967-1969, republished under the Phoebus brand.

Working parent

Leslie Morgan Steiner wrote that, as women struggle to come to terms with their own choices in parenting against society’s standards, they engage in this warfare that does nothing to promote self-acceptance, acceptance of others or balance within their individual lives.

Yoshio Shinozuka

Yoshio Shinozuka (篠塚良雄; born 1923) is a former Imperial Army soldier who served as an army physician with a top secret Japanese biological warfare group called Unit 731 in World War II.


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