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PARADOX OF PEACE
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BALANCE OF POWER
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WAR, OPERATIONS AND MILITARY SCIENCE
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8.1
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DEFENSE
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8.2
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO OFFENSE; MAINTAINING
BALANCE OF POWER
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8.3
RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT
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8.4
ACTIVE PREVENTION
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CONTENTS
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DEFENSE
PREVENTION
NUCLEAR ARMS
LATEST REVISION AND COPYRIGHT
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3.1
THEORIES AND NATURE OF WAR
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3.2
LAW OF WAR
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3.3
PRACTICE OF WAR, MILITARY SCIENCE
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The paradox of peace is that despite the desire for peace, it has not
been a permanent state of civilization. Relative global stability has
been achieved in the twentieth century by the build-up of massive
and unprecedented power - and risk - of global destruction…
3.3.1
SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLES, OPERATIONS RESEARCH 1
3.3.2
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND TACTICAL SYSTEMS
1
3.3.3
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND WAR PLANNING
1
3.3.4
SIMULATION, READINESS AND DEPLOYMENT OF
SYSTEMS
2
3.3.5
FUNDAMENTALS OF TACTICS
2
3.3.6
FUNDAMENTALS OF LOGISTICS
2
3.3.7
MILITARY ENGINEERING
2
3.3.8
MODERN ARMED FORCES
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MOBILIZATION
PARADOX OF PEACE
2
BALANCE OF POWER
The balance of power is not too complex in its relations for
comprehension but its dynamics seem ponderous. Also, reality or
truth in the politics of power is elusive. These factors result in a
situation where we can easily imagine a world of peace and security
while such a world actually eludes us
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3.1
WAR, OPERATIONS AND MILITARY SCIENCE
THEORIES AND NATURE OF WAR
4.1
ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION
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Ethological approaches
4.2
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
2
Psychological approaches
RECONSTRUCTION
2
State as a cause of war
INFORMATION, INTELLIGENCE AND CONTROL
2
Nationalism as a cause of war
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Role of special interest groups
6.1.1
MOBILIZATION OF CIVILIAN RESEARCH
ESTABLISHMENT
2
War as an aspect of social conduct [that is, not as an aberration]
6.1.2
TECHNOLOGY OF INFORMATION
2
3.2
6.1.3
WARNING AND DETECTION SYSTEMS
2
Sources of laws of war
6.1.4
COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE
2
Justice and legality in the initiation of war
6.1.5
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN POLICE
3
Standards in the conduct of war
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MILITARY SYSTEMS
LAW OF WAR
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Area of combat
7.1
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF
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Neutral states
7.2
MILITARY INDUSTRY
3
Distinguishing between combatants and noncombatants
7.3
WEAPONS SYSTEMS
3
Distinguishing between military and civilian
7.3.1
PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATIONS
3
Prisoners of war
7.3.2
NON-BALLISTIC “WEAPONS” AND INSTRUMENTS
3
The methods of destruction
7.3.3
BALLISTIC SYSTEMS
3
War at sea
7.4
DELIVERY SYSTEMS
3
7.4.1
LAND VEHICLES
3
Conventions on the termination of war
7.4.2
NAVAL VEHICLES
3
Definition and punishment of war crimes
7.4.3
AIRCRAFT
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3.3
7.4.4
SPACE SYSTEMS
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3.3.1
SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLES, OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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3.3.2
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND TACTICAL SYSTEMS
7.5
PROTECTIVE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS
War by aircraft
PRACTICE OF WAR, MILITARY SCIENCE
7.5.1
INDIVIDUAL GEAR
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Relation between strategy and tactics
7.5.2
FORTIFICATIONS
3
3.3.3
7.5.3
ARMORED VEHICLES
3
Relation to logistics, systems analysis
7.5.4
CAMOUFLAGE AND DECOY SYSTEMS
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Manpower deployment: land, sea, air
7.5.5
WARNING AND DETECTION SYSTEMS:
SEE EARLIER SECTION
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Manpower delivery: land transport, marines, airborne divisions,
commandos
7.5.6
ANTIMISSILE MISSILES: DEPLOYMENT
TECHNIQUES AND LAUNCH SYSTEMS
3
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND WAR PLANNING
Guerrilla warfare
History
Strategy and tactics
Professional soldier
Physical and social components of guerrilla warfare
Military organization, purposes, patterns and relation to
operations
Counter-guerrilla warfare
Legal status of guerrillas
Military community
Weapons delivery and deployment [see Military Systems]
Recruitment and social control
Auxiliary functions of armed forces
Military structure: general and field operations
3.3.4
Domestic functions
SIMULATION, READINESS AND DEPLOYMENT OF
SYSTEMS
3.3.4.1
Modern strategy and weapons of mass destruction
Conflict management
3.3.8.2
Civil-military relations
Nature and consequences of nuclear weapons
Militarization of politics
Logic of nuclear strategy
Strategic posture of superpowers since 1945
Conditions of military intervention
3.3.8.3
Military law
Strategy of Western alliance
Persons subject to military law
Soviet strategy
Offenses against military law
Chinese strategy
Summary punishment
Non-aligned nations
Courts-martial
Proliferation and its consequences
Appeals
Combined strategy of nuclear and conventional systems including
guerrilla warfare and terrorism
Wartime procedures
3.3.5
FUNDAMENTALS OF TACTICS
Tactical formation
Tactics of attack
Defensive and defensive tactics
Modern naval tactics
Air tactics
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MOBILIZATION
Economic and social mobilization
4.1
ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION
Industrial, food, energy, technological production, and military
organization of industry
Resource and manpower
transportation systems
delivery
and
transportation
Use of aircraft with ground forces
Maintenance of permanent military forces and systems
Influence of missile development
Conservation of resources, rationing, substitution
Recent air tactics
Modern military budgeting
Guerrilla tactics
4.2
Integration of land, sea, and air tactics
Socio-political motivation, education
Tactics in view of nuclear weapons
Moral commitment and compulsory recruitment
3.3.6
Mercenaries
FUNDAMENTALS OF LOGISTICS
Relation of logistics to mobilization
and
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
Components of logistics
National Guard, civilian defense systems, civilian corps - incendiary,
medical, observation and defense
Special features of naval logistics
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RECONSTRUCTION
Issue of power versus movement
Consequences and scenario analysis
Logistics of combined conventional and nuclear systems
Applied sociology, psychology and economics
3.3.7
Technology of reconstruction
MILITARY ENGINEERING
Combat engineering: tactical engineer support on the battlefield,
weapons maintenance, military communications
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Strategic support: construction of airfields and depots, improvement
of ports, road and rail communications, bridges, fortification,
camouflage projects, aircraft battery and searchlight installations,
bomb-shelters, installation and maintenance of strategic and tactical
nuclear systems, storage and distribution of fuels
6.1.1
MOBILIZATION
ESTABLISHMENT
6.1.2
TECHNOLOGY OF INFORMATION
6.1.3
WARNING AND DETECTION SYSTEMS
Ancillary support: such as, provision and distribution of maps,
disposal of unexploded bombs and warheads
Development of military systems: such as mentioned above, mining,
aviation, missile guidance and strategic systems, tanks, weapons,
bridges, road systems, airport construction and surfacing techniques,
tracking, navigation and locating devices, chemical and nuclear
explosives - Manhattan Project, strategic and tactical nuclear systems
Peacetime applications: civil engineering functions: dams,
hydroelectric projects, irrigation and flood control, coastal engineering
and harbors, disaster relief - earthquake, flood, and hurricane
3.3.8
MODERN ARMED FORCES
3.3.8.1
The military systems and management of violence
Military bureaucracy
INFORMATION, INTELLIGENCE AND CONTROL
OF
CIVILIAN
RESEARCH
Electromagnetic and acoustic sensors
Modern technology and future developments
Warning systems
Modern and future systems
Military communication
Electric signaling
Radio and satellite communications
Laser communications
Codes
6.1.4
COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE
Military, civilian, social and international intelligence and counterintelligence land, naval, air, space systems
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Infiltration and covert operations
Cruisers
Mobilization of foreign social, industrial, research
Destroyers
Defense and military establishments
Super destroyers
Friendly and antagonistic nations
Patrol boats and other small ships
Propaganda, scenario deployment
Amphibians, mine craft, service ships and other auxiliaries
Military and civilian police
Nuclear propulsion
Hierarchical structure of above systems, including general military
systems for efficiency, cover-up, anti-detection and prevention of
reverse information flow, false information
Submarines
6.1.5
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN POLICE
Hierarchical structure of above systems, including general military
systems for efficiency, cover-up, anti-detection and prevention of
reverse information flow, false information
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MILITARY SYSTEMS
7.1
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF
Weapons
7.4.3
AIRCRAFT
Fighters
Bombers
Fighter-bombers
Naval aircraft
Reconnaissance aircraft
Air transport
Air tankers
Delivery
Jet and rocket propulsion
Protection
Detection and communication
7.2
MILITARY INDUSTRY
7.3
WEAPONS SYSTEMS
7.3.1
Anti-ship and antisubmarine measures and devices
PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATIONS
Supersonic and hypersonic vehicles
Automatic guidance systems
VSTOL craft
Helicopters
Shock weapons, missile weapons, siege systems, land and sea
carriers, naval arms, systems and tactics
7.4.4
7.3.2
Future systems
NON-BALLISTIC “WEAPONS” AND INSTRUMENTS
Chemical, biological, and nuclear [as toxins] warfare
SPACE SYSTEMS
Reconnaissance satellites
7.5
PROTECTIVE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS
7.5.1
INDIVIDUAL GEAR
Climatic warfare, induction of catastrophes, floods, earthquakes, and
so on
7.5.2
FORTIFICATIONS
Psychological warfare
Nuclear fortifications and shelters; conventional fortresses
Economic warfare
7.5.3
7.3.3
Tanks
Genetic
BALLISTIC SYSTEMS
The types are physical, pneumatic and hydraulic, electromagnetic,
chemical, nuclear
Artillery
Small arms
Ammunition
Propellants and explosives
Pillboxes, bunkers, bomb shelters, trenches, coastal batteries
ARMORED VEHICLES
Airborne and amphibious vehicles
Armored personnel carriers
7.5.4
CAMOUFLAGE AND DECOY SYSTEMS
7.5.5
WARNING AND DETECTION SYSTEMS: SEE EARLIER
SECTION
7.5.6
ANTIMISSILE
MISSILES:
DEPLOYMENT
TECHNIQUES AND LAUNCH SYSTEMS
Projectiles
Fuses
Strategic defense initiative: “Star wars”
Rounds
7.5.7
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DEFENSE
Rockets and missile systems; mines and grenades
Warning
Nuclear weapons
Detection
Land, sea, air, space-based systems
Fission
Thermonuclear
Prevention of launch: first strike [not regarded as feasible]
Deployment
Prevention of delivery [not regarded as feasible]
7.4
DELIVERY SYSTEMS
7.4.1
Protection against strike
Post strike system
LAND VEHICLES
Road
Evacuation and prevention through social mobilization
Track
Maintenance of viable conventional forces and systems
All terrain
Prevention: see section below
Amphibious vehicles
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7.4.2
8.1
NAVAL VEHICLES
PREVENTION
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DEFENSE
Attack carriers
Knowledge of offensive systems
Amphibious carriers
Systems approach: above, this page
Battleships [obsolete]
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8.2
SYSTEMS APPROACH TO OFFENSE; MAINTAINING
BALANCE OF POWER
8.3
RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT
8.4
ACTIVE PREVENTION
Arms supplies and weapons control
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