Military Review, Volume 38

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Command and General Staff School, 1958

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Page 60 - The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective...
Page 45 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Page 31 - We are living not merely in a state, but in a system of states, and the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end supervenes, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable.
Page 98 - Lord George Germain, having among other peculiarities a particular dislike to be put out of his way on any occasion, had arranged to call at his office on his way to the country...
Page 47 - Attitude — The position of an aircraft as determined by the inclination of its axes to some frame of reference. If not otherwise specified, this frame of reference is fixed to the earth.
Page 28 - Communism; that, side by side with this, there will vanish all need for force, for the subjection of one man to another, and of one part of the population to another, since people will grow accustomed to observing the elementary conditions of social existence without force and without subjection.
Page 31 - Imperialist States for a long time is unthinkable. In the end either the one or the other will have the better of it. Until that end comes, a series of most terrible conflicts between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois States is inevitable. This means that the ruling class, the proletariat, if it wants to and will rule, must prove this also by its military organisation.
Page 47 - Who will attack the first tomorrow - I or Bonaparte?" "Bonaparte," replied Lord Uxbridge. "Well," continued the Duke, "Bonaparte has not given me any idea of his projects; and as my plans will depend upon his, how can you expect me to tell you what mine are?
Page 32 - ... inhibits the development of mastery on the level of ends. The end has become a dogma, and if that dogma is wrong the whole technique of the means is wrong too. They pretend that Marxism is a science. But they are inflexible and dogmatic at the fundamental level where science is flexible, the level of most fundamental theory. Physics is a science, in which the ideas of Newton were upset in theory by Einstein before they were upset in practice by the atom bomb. Communism is no science, for the...
Page 47 - If not otherwise specified, this frame of reference is fixed to the earth. aerodynamics. That field of dynamics which treats of the motion of bodies relative to the air and the forces that act upon the bodies, especially as they relate to flight through the air. aerodynamic missile.

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