War From the Ground Up (50 page)

audience responses to,
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confidence and vision in,
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definition,
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emotional component (
pathos
) of,
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history, role of,
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interpretative framework of,
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moral component of (
ethos
),
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own side, in relation to,
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rational component of (
logos
),
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rhetoric, as,
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strategic dialogue:
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strategy, relationship to,
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Western,
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strategy:
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culminating point of attack,
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procedural/constitutional aspects,
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strategic dialogue,
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strategic level,
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Subandrio, Dr: Indonesian Foreign Minister,
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Subritzky, John:
Confronting Sukarno
(2000),
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Suharto: rise to power (1967),
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Sukarno, Ahmed:
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President of Indonesia,
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Suleiman the Magnificent:
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Summers, Colonel Harry:
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Sun Tzu:
The Art of War
,
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Switzerland:
135

Tacitus:
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Tactical action, conceptual:
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Bin Taimur, Sultan Said:
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Tamil Tigers: defeat of (2009),
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Tara Phagami Corporal:
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Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald:
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Third Punic War (149–146 BCE): destruction of Carthage,
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Thornycroft, Peter: British Secretary of State for Defence,
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Tirah Campaign (1897–8):
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Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace
(1869),
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Trajan: territory conquered by,
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Truman, Harry S.:
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foreign policy of,
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Tu, Colonel:
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Tuck, Christopher:
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United Kingdom:
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Battle of Hastings (1066),
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Brigade of Gurkhas,
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Coldstream Guards,
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Foreign and Commonwealth
Office,
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government of,
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Gurkha Welfare Scheme,
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House of Commons,
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House of Commons Defence Select Committee,
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House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report (2011),
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Labour Party,
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London,
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military of,
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Mercian Regiment,
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Ministry of Defence,
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National Security Strategy (2010),
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navy of,
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Parachute Regiment,
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Parliament,
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parliamentary expenses scandal (2009),
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Royal Air Force (RAF),
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Sandhurst Military Academy,
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Special Air Service (SAS),
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Strategic Defence Review,
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United Nations (UN):
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Charter,
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Security Council,
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United States Army War College: faculty of,
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United States of America (USA):
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9/11 attacks,
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Air Force,
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Civil War (1861–5),
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Congress,
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Democratic Party,
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Federal Reserve,
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government of,
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Marine Corps,
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Military Academy at West Point,
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military of,
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National Security Council,
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navy of,
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Pentagon,
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Republican Party,
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Tea Party,
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US Army and Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual
,
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use of drone strikes by,
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War Department,
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use of force: absolute/total war, in relation to limited war,
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armed political activity/politicisation of conflict,
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a-symmetry in conflict,
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decisiveness in conflict,
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domestic politics, analogy with,
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grammar/explosive expansion of war,
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interpretive concept of war/mechanism of war,
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kinetic (violent) and non-kinetic (non-violent) means,
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measures of effect,
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military domain,
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polarity, see ‘enemy'

sequential/cumulative campaigns,
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‘sides', concept of, see ‘enemy'

time, concept of in definition of a conflict's outcome,
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traditional paradigm of,
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violence in conflict, concept of,
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Vann, Colonel John Paul:
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Varus, Publius Quinctilius: defeat of (9 CE),
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victory, concept of: see ‘decisiveness in conflict'

Vietnam War:
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Battle of Hamburger Hill (1969),
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Easter Offensive (1972),
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Fall of Saigon (1975),
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Paris Peace Agreement (1973),
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Tet Offensive (1968),
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Wahhabism:
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