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...The present booklet examines two incidents of the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring of Oman and the Arab Spring of Libya. However the emphasis is on the Libyan Arab Spring, and the toppling of the Libyan dictator Muammar Qadda...

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...he Arab Spring of Libya Iakovos Alhadeff Table of ContentsThe Arab Spring in OmanThe Arab Spring in Libya Articles The ... ...ng of Libya Iakovos Alhadeff Table of ContentsThe Arab Spring in OmanThe Arab Spring in Libya Articles The Arab Spring ... ...The Arab Spring in OmanThe Arab Spring in Libya Articles The Arab Spring in OmanA very good article from the center-left Huffington ... ...ring in OmanA very good article from the center-left Huffington Post about the ArabSpring of Oman in 2011. See “How the Arab Spring Skirted Oman”,Dece... ... in OmanA very good article from the center-left Huffington Post about the ArabSpring of Oman in 2011. See “How the Arab Spring Skirted Oman”,December... ... article from the center-left Huffington Post about the ArabSpring of Oman in 2011. See “How the Arab Spring Skirted Oman”,December 2011.According to ... ...n Post the Arab Spring in Oman was probably awarning send to Oman from the United Arab Emirates, in order for Oman tobe careful about its friendship w... ... Saudi Arabia‟s neighborhood. And that happens at atime the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates are already at war with theIranians in Yemen, with the... ...matically. US relations with Chad havebeen significantly influenced by two events: the launching of the ―war on terror‖ in 2001and US oil imports from...

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...Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. This theory considers every notion or idea together with its opposite or negation and with their spectrum of n...

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...This analysis of air control examines all three conceptual frameworks. By assessing the validity of the RAF and USAF models, this study finds that air control provides political and military leaders a military strategy for a smaller defense establishment. It also identifies shortcomings and advises caution w...

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.... . 4 2 BRITISH AIR CONTROL FROM 1922 TO 1936 . . . . . . 7 Notes . . . . 13 3 PROJECT CONTROL FROM 1953 TO 1954 . . . . . 17 Notes . . . . 24 4 THE PERSIAN GULF WAR FROM 1990 TO 1991 . . . . 29 Notes . . . . 35 5 ASSESSING AIR CONTROL . . . . . 39 Notes . . . . 46 6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION . . . . . 49 Notes . . . . 51...

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... AIR SITY UNIVER Air Control Strategy for a Smaller United States Air Force GEORGE R. GAGNON, MAJOR, USAF Schoo... ...GE R. GAGNON, MAJOR, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES,MAXWEL... ...sed or implied within are solely those of theauthor, and do not necessar ily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air F orce,the D... ...those of theauthor, and do not necessar ily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air F orce,the Department of Defense, or any othe... .... . . . . . . . . . . 51 v Abstract In 1921 as England faced sever e financial pr essures resulting... ...ed Middle East mandates. After a successful demon­stration of airpower’s effectiveness in Somaliland, the British adopted and imple­mented an air cont... ...lems (Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University Pr ess, August 1988),13. 15. Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), 151. 16. Ibi... ...hout the period. They obtained r esults by evaluating sixJapanese and six German events prior to and during the war and then bycalculating possi... ...arched, analyzed, and pr esented the Japanese and Ger man tests, byinterpreting prewar events with the benefit of America’s World War II expe­rience t...

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...Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad needed a monster in order to keep Syria under their control, when in 2011 Turkey and Qatar used the Muslim Brotherhood to cause a regime change. It turns out that this monster was the Islamic State, which was the successor of Al-Qaeda of ...

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... How Putin and AssadCreated the Islamic State Iakovos Alhadeff Table of ContentsPutin and... ...the Islamic State Putin and Hitler Articles Putin and the Islamic StateA very good article from Reuters about al-Nusra, the Al... ...sra Front may leave Qaeda to form new entity”, March2015.According to Reuters in 2015 Qatar was trying to convince al-Nusra to quitAl-Qaeda in order t... ... wants to isolate al-Nusra from Al-Qaeda, because Iran has a lot of influence in Al-Qaeda, andQatar and Iran are fighting each other in Syria. Qatar i... ...dan and Hezbollah trained Osama bin Laden‟s men in Sudan in theearly 90s. The Arabs of Al-Qaeda i.e Saudis, Egyptians, Libyans, Sudanese,Iraqis etc, w... ...n September 2015 the ex-director of CIA, General Petreaus, said that maybethe United States should cooperate with the moderate elements of al-Qaedai.e... ...owerful army. They don‟t need terrorism. The weaker parties needterrorism.The United States now have two choices. They will have to cooperate withRuss... ...pt, SaudiArabia and Qatar, fell apart without having influenced the course of events againstAssad. Today, members of this ―axis‖ not only bear grudges... ...expertise inconstruction to assist the Emirate in building the 2022 World Cup events? Money talks,and in supine Western countries just coming out of a...

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...Missile defense has become a key factor in US strategic planning. The problem, of course, lies with the stage of current technological development. Mid-course or terminal-phase systems appear closer to feasibility just now, at least theoretically....

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...rent National Missile-DEFENSE PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4 Asia and the US Missile-defense Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Notes . . . . . ...

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... at Mather Field, California, getting his com- mission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in t... ...com- mission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines, he returned to Langl... ... After a tour in the Philippines, he returned to Langley Field, Virginia, in February 1925 with a subsequent as... ...25 with a subsequent assignment in December 1928 to attend the Air Corps Tactical School. Retain... ...other three years at Luke Field,Ford Island, and Wheeler Field, Hawaii. Walker returned to the United Statesin January 1941 as assistant chief of the ... ..., equipping,deploying, and employing the Army Air Forces to defeat Germany and Japanshould the United States become embroiled in war. The authors comp... ... be fielded threeyears later if all factors favored deploying the system. In 1998 a series of events put missile defense on the frontpage and set the... ...sible: India, Iran, North Korea>3000 kmMedium Range Israel, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, China, India,1000–3000 km Pakis... ...times the US population and an economy growing two tothree times faster than the US economy.18 Events, such as theChinese response to the US bombing o...

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Art chronicles and essays on the visual arts in the Middle East and elsewhere: art theory, art criticism and the history of art.

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...The surrealist image attempts to short-circuit the distinction between the substance and the form of representation by playing upon (by both extending and contracting) the distance between the sign (or the icon as subsumed...

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...Introduction Leon Golub & Nancy Spero: artists for our time Martin Chambi: indigenous photographer Rufino Tamayo & photography “This is the color of my dreams” surrealism and photography Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: art as conflict & desire Search engine’s bodily reply: Hannes Brunner On creativity & art Going around The Mimetic Manifesto of Pierre Mena...

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...Essays Marcelo Guimarães LimaMarcelo Guimarães Lima PhD, MFA, born in Rio de Janeiro(Brazil), is a visual artist, writer and professor. He has... ...l), is a visual artist, writer and professor. He has exhibited hisartworks in Brazil, the US, France and the UAE, and has publishedessays and critical... ...sual artist, writer and professor. He has exhibited hisartworks in Brazil, the US, France and the UAE, and has publishedessays and critical writings o... ...and Philosophy, Psychologyof Art and on cultural and educational themes in the US, Brazil,France and Spain. A Note on the TextsThe essays and articles... ...ions, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Dubai Art in the United Arab Emirateshttp://www. metasenta.com.au ... ...elbourne, Hong Kong, Dubai Art in the United Arab Emirateshttp://www. metasenta.com.au ... ...a constant level of artistic excellence and formal renewal. that united genre and the monumental, piety and the sensual or the To exemplify... ...lf opened on September 4, 2009 as one of the cen- tral events of the 2009 Arc Biennial of Art in Brisbane, Australia. ... ...upport. In the case of the present works, Fragmented Events at Cuadro Fine Arts Gallery, Dubai, November-Dec...

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...None before Prof. John Norton Moore has argued the value of democratic principles in deterrence and conflict avoidance. In this important book, Dr. Gary Sharp analyzes the concepts in Moore’s seminal work The War Puzzle (2005), which describes Moore’s incentive theory of...

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...lied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of ... ...heauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US governme... ... iiDedicated to my loving wife Anne Marie Sharp from whom all good in my life flows ContentsChapter ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi PREFACE... ... 103 Paths to Peace: Domestic and International Factors In War Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 An Analysis of... ...is critical to an understanding of those foreignpolicy strategies that the United States and other democraticnations must embrace as they attempt to r... ...ts and civil liberties are Myanmar (Burma),Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, andTurkmenistan.35 Freedom House also concludes that... ...s believed replacing capitalismwith socialism could prevent war, but world events have provensocialists wrong as well.32 These two schools of thought... ...al, politico-cultural, and techno-scientific “wild cards”:those unforeseen events that could cause instability and con-flict. Historical wild cards ha...

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...Women have served in and with the United States armed forces since the founding of our nation; yet it has only been since the 1970s that issues concerning women in the military have been seriously and systematically pursued by both scholars an...

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...There is a rumor that it is very difficult to understand the Middle East. However this is not true. It is difficult to understand the Middle East only when the emphasis is not on oil and natural gas. If oil and natural gas are taken into account it is very easy to analyze the Middl...

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... The New TerrorismThe Nature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF Sc... ...ajor, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, M... ... July 2004 This School of Advanced Air and Space Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronically at the Air University Re... ...se of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US g... ...rategyagainst the insurgents by using the same analytical framework to assess the in-surgents’ strategy. v Abou... ...s tour of duty with 16 SOS in-cluded operations during conflicts in Panama, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. Whileflying with the 16 SOS, he was assigned to... ...present danger to all people of good will everywhere in the world, not just the United States. Such acts are a pure example of naked aggression ag... ...taff,the foregone conclusion was that the United States would be at war. Whilethe events were unfolding, President Bush was aboard Air Force One for s... ...itishparatroopers eventually opened fire, killing 13 and wounding 14 others.77The events of 1969 through 1972 were enough to completely rejuvenate the...

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...2、Pacific Book Review http://www.pacificbookreview.com/century-sentence/ Century Sentence: A Diary Written to God Accusing Against All of the World is a sprawling and provocative book by Xu Xue Chun. The book offers an all encompassing range of opinions on everything from China’s political system to European immigration. This book is politically incorrect and p...

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...ntury Sentence 2017 versionA diary written to God, accusing all of the world Xu Xue Chun 徐雪春 1Scri... ...un 徐雪春 1Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (AuthorisedVersion), first published... ...e from the Holy Bible, King James Version (AuthorisedVersion), first published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, copyright© 1983 b... ...aning of the article, the Chinese version shall prevail.The Chinese version is in my website: http://www.aaamary9.com.Any organisation or individual i... ....31 globally。。。。。。。。。。。 0 150. Saudi Arabia’s invasion of Yemen is an unjust 402015.4.3 war。。。。。... ... democracy, freedom, and human rights 0 221. The United States supporting ultra-conservative Islamists of Saudi Arabia ... ... and uncultivated residents 3 239. The United States launching the Middle East war is 602015.5.16 ri... ... just an ordinary netizen.I have been making comments and exchanging about hot events happening in China, on thenetwork as an ordinary netizen. My sug... ...me cautiously.This book collected my comments and suggestions on all-important events which occurred inChina and around the world from 2004 until now,...

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...ign: Daniel Armstrong Please send inquiries or comments to: Editor The Maxwell Papers Air War College 325 Chennault Circle,... ...) 953-1988 Internet: lawrence.grinter@Maxwell.af.mil This Maxwell Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air University R... ...53-1988 Internet: lawrence.grinter@Maxwell.af.mil This Maxwell Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air University Re- ... ...se of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Air Uni­versity, the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any other U... ...ited. ii Foreword Since 1979 the relationship between the United Statesand the Islamic Republic of Iran has mirrored aspects... ...helped to polar­ize relations between Tehran and Washington, establisheda theocracy in which the faithful could prosper. In this study, Lt Col Anthony... ...cally alteredrelationships between the West and major Persian Gulf oilstates (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait)have dampened Iranian inf... ...orts to acquire nuclear weapons in violationof NPT terms.40 In the late 1990s, such events as the armsrace between Pakistan and India, which came to a... ...nd ter­rorist groups that threaten governments in the MiddleEast and elsewhere. The events of 11 September 2001have greatly stiffened US resolve to co...

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...The United States has been involved in peace enforcement operations for many years. In that time we have learned some lessons. Unfortunately, we continue to repeat many of the same mistakes. Sometimes we have forgotten hard-l...

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...This study, Blue Horizons, was commissioned by the United States Air Force (USAF) chief of staff to provide “a new look at the future.” Specifically, the chief of staff asked the research team to provide “a common understanding of future strategic and technological trends...

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... . .3 Peer China 2030—Causality and Impact . . . .6 Capabilities Needed to Respond to a Peer China Crisis . . . . .7 Resurgent Russia . . . . .8 The Development of a Resurgent Russia . . . .9 Capabilities to Defend against a Resurgent Russian State . . . . .10 Failed State—Nigeria . . . .11 A Failure We Cannot Ignore . . . .11 Nigeria Shatters . . . . .13 Capabi...

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... Blue Horizons II Future Capabilities and Technologies for the Air Force in 2030 Executive Summary ... ... Blue Horizons II Future Capabilities and Technologies for the Air Force in 2030 Executive Summary by ... ...Col, USAF July 2009The Occasional papers series was established by the Center forStrategy and Technology as a forum for research on... ...ing about technology and its impli-cations for US national security. Copies of No. 65 in this series areavailable from the Center for Strategy and Tec... ...hnology ; no. 65) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-58566-193-01. United States. Air Force—Planning. 2. Strategic planning—United ... ...al innovations—Forecasting. 4. Weapons systems—Planning.5. National security—United States. I. Geis, John P. II. Series: Occasional paper(Air... ...States willlikely retain significant interest in the future of most coun-tries on the Arabian Peninsula not only for economic rea-sons but also becaus... ...e worldunder an extremist ideology. With Iraq becoming a Shi’a-dominated state, Saudi Arabia and other smaller states onthe Arabian Peninsula serve as... ...oward 2030, single actors or smallgroups will have the capacity to create high-impact events, makingfuture warfare more dangerous than past wars.Figur...

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...It is my hope that these three essays provide the reader with a better and more comprehensive understanding of the International Criminal Court, its development, and the reasons all Americans should be concerned. For the non-American reader, I hope that these essays pr...

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...DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii DEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iii ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . .vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix Essays A HISTORY OF WAR CRIMES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Maj David A. Hater ...

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...thiesen – All rights reserved Disclaimer: While inspired by real events and settings, this book is a work of fiction. The characters and di... ...ile inspired by real events and settings, this book is a work of fiction. The characters and dialogue arecreations of the author and are not intended... ... 174The 10th Wave 196About The Author 221 – The 1st Wave – ... ...life. And life eventually comes to know of their Creator and shows in many ways that they are thankful to him for all his gifts. No o... ...anything like this before. When the first wave hit, no onecould explain it in words and most of us never even noticedit. It came out of nowhere, rever... ...e Mars colony known as Jezero City, MarkMontalvo, a retired Captain in the United States SpaceForce, shuts down his tractor as he finishes laying down... ...ing of the bean that will eventually include an areaalmost the size of the United States. Captain Montalvo’s farm is an experiment that willturn ... ... I’m amazed at how calmlyeveryone is taking this highly unexpected turn of events. Another lightning blast roars past the ship. Thistime it seems... .... Prince Salmon Zamahadi, the sometimes benevolentruler of the United Arab Emirates orders his space vehicleto break orbit and begin the descent ...