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warfare
warfare violent conflict between armed enemies. In modern times warfare has usually been conducted by the armed forces (e.g., army, navy, and air force) of a nation or other politically organized group. The way in which war is carried out is governed by the principles of strategy and tactics , b... Read more
trireme
trireme, a Mediterranean war galley propelled by three banks of oars. See also warfare at sea.... Read more
camouflage
camouflage , in warfare, the disguising of objects with artificial aids, especially for the purpose of making them blend into their surroundings or of deceiving the observer as to the location of strategic points. The principle, of course, is observed in the world of nature (see protective colorati... Read more
Amalekites
Amalekites , in the Bible, aboriginal people of Canaan and the Sinai peninsula. They waged constant warfare against the Hebrews until dispersed by Saul. Their ancestor, Amalek, for whom they were named, was a duke of Edom and Esau's descendant. ... Read more
mechanized warfare
mechanized warfare employment of modern mobile attack and defense tactics that depend upon machines, more particularly upon vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel engines. Central to the waging of mechanized warfare are the tank and armored vehicle, with support and supply from motorized columns a... Read more
tear gas
tear gas gas that causes temporary blindness through the excessive flow of tears resulting from irritation of the eyes. The gas is used in chemical warfare and as a means for dispersing mobs. Compounds that cause lacrimation (watering of the eyes) include bromoacetone, benzyl bromide, chloroaceto... Read more
trench warfare
trench warfare Although trenches were used in ancient and medieval warfare, in the American Civil War, and in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), they did not become important until World War I. The introduction of rapid-firing small arms and artillery made the infantry charges of earlier wars virtu... Read more
mortar
mortar in warfare, term originally applied to certain types of artillery with high trajectories, but later applied to an infantry weapon that consists of a tube supported by a bipod that fires a projectile at a very high trajectory. The mortar is not usually classified as artillery. Unlike standa... Read more
laws of war
laws of war in international law , rules and principles regulating an armed conflict between nations. These laws are designed to minimize the destruction of life and property, to proscribe cruel treatment of noncombatants and prisoners of war , and to establish conditions under which the belliger... Read more
battleship
battleship large, armored warship equipped with the heaviest naval guns. The evolution of the battleship, from the ironclad warship of the mid-19th cent., received great impetus from the Civil War. By 1872 the French were building iron and steel warships, and in 1876 the British started constructio... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Aerial warfare"

signals intelligence warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II signals intelligence warfare 1. Introduction There is a good...is nowadays known as electronic warfare intelligence (elint), photographic...of communication for the mobile aerial and land warfare that developed during the Second...
Giulio Douhet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...recognize the predominant role aerial warfare would play in twentieth...theories of the function of aerial combat in subsequent warfare. Among the revolutionary...for the inherent primacy of aerial warfare and the shortcomings of his...
Bombing, Ethics of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...War theory , applied long before the age of aerial warfare to earlier forms of attack directed against...naval bombardment. The 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare extended these restrictions to aerial bombardment, adding an explicit prohibition...
Douhet, Giulio
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...War I. His bold ideas about air warfare injected a tremendous energy into...expanding body of concepts about aerial warfare provided airpower advocates with...in 1921, his seminal work on aerial warfare, The Command of the Air , was...
Law of the Sea
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...On the other hand, it meant freedom for naval and aerial warfare, including interference with neutral commerce; freedom...what could be found in the customary regulations of warfare and neutrality. Since the 1950s the united nations...
Bombs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Bombs. In aerial warfare, the term bomb is applied to a wide range of containers filled with explosive, incendiary, or fissile material, or with chemical...
Laws of War
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...mines , boobytraps, and incendiary weapons). Efforts were made between 1919 and 1939 to restrict submarine and aerial warfare, but they proved useless during World War II. Submarines were so vulnerable on the surface that, having to stay...
Air Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Air Warfare. Despite having given birth...aircraft performance. By 1916, aerial photography was a crucial...After a brief string of aerial victories, Garros was forced...During the interwar years aerial bombardment was used widely...
Arctic Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Arctic Warfare. Characterized by subzero...little experience of arctic warfare. However, in World War...first line of defense against aerial attack from the Soviet Union...specially trained in winter warfare techniques—at...
Chemical Warfare
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...irritant. The horrors of chemical warfare during World War I prompted...chemical and biological weapons of warfare. The protocol was initially...order to commit terrorism. Aerial releases of lethal chemicals...Soman were created. Chemical warfare research continued during the...

Dictionary entries related to "Aerial warfare"

World War I
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the WESTERN FRONT fighting was characterized by trench warfare, both sides believing that superiority in numbers would...prevail despite the greater power of mechanized defence. Aerial warfare developed from reconnaissance into bombing and the use...
strike package
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military strike package the combat aircraft, aerial tankers, electronic warfare aircraft, and other supporting aircraft and equipment required to mount a given air attack.
Hill, Walter
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...ritual dance. Given this transformation, you could as well accuse Hill of celebrating gang warfare as you could accuse Lichtenstein of condoning aerial combat in his painting Whaam! The fascination of Hill's cinema is that it evokes and elaborates...
Letters from the Front, World War I (1918, by Quentin Roosevelt)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Roosevelt's son, Quentin, offer a glimpse into the earliest days of mechanized warfare and the mind of an adventurous young American engaged in it. Aerial combat in the Great War (World War I) was a crude affair. Targets had to be located...
Special Forces
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...permanent unconventional warfare unit in the Army since World...extraction, resupply, aerial fire support, air interdiction, force protection, aerial refueling, combat search...conducted psychological warfare and intelligence collection...
World War II
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...campaign against Britain accompanied by unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic designed to isolate Britain from the resources...Royal Air Force prevailed over the German Luftwaffe in the aerial campaign known as the Battle of Britain in the summer and early...
Gulf War Letter (March 1991)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...After forty-one days and nights of aerial bombardment, the U.S.-led Coalition...into enemy territory in the history of warfare. Kuwait was restored to its aristocratic...clearly reveals the overwhelming ground and aerial firepower available to the Coalition...
Convoys
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...wolf packs" of fifty or more submarines, extended "tonnage warfare" strategy from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean, the South...wide dispersion of convoyed shipping, and the employment of aerial transports, as during the Berlin Airlift (1948 –...
Doolittle, James Harold
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...pivotal part in establishing the role of aviation in modern warfare. Doolittle was a flight leader and gunnery instructor in the...Army Air Corps in World War II . He planned and led the first aerial raid on Japan (1942), after which he was awarded the Congressional...
Air Cavalry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and medical support, flexible and informed command through aerial command posts, and superior firepower. In a theater such...airpower in Vietnam opened a new era in the history of land warfare, as evidenced in U.S. tactics in subsequent conflicts...

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`Smart bombs' revolutionized aerial warfare
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/19/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...are so accurate that they have changed the nature of aerial warfare. Experts made this comment yesterday after TV showed...to home in on the enemy tank, said Hallion. The air warfare experts said the smart bombs are accurate to within...
The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal; 12/1/2003; ; 537 words ; The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare by Michael Russell Rip and James M. Hasik. Naval Institute Press (http:// www.usni.org/usni.html), 2062 Generals...
The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Air Power History; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare. By Michael Russell Rip and James...Concentrating on use of GPS in aerial warfare, they craft a richly detailed...the topic in its subtitle--aerial warfare. Readers will find numerous non...
MILLAN: AERIAL WARFARE ADVANCES MADE IN FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 9/12/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...accurately reflect some of the significant advances in aerial warfare made there. "China was given cast-off airplanes...province and were supplied by bases in India. Thus the aerial resupply route over the Himalaya Mountians, known as...
The Wings of Warfare; How Technological Leaps, Bold Innovators Have Helped Shape Modern Aerial Combat
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/5/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...to go to Europe and fly." Morrow said the shift to aerial warfare is about more than the relationship between the military...a Wright Flyer. 1915-1917: The British pioneer aerial reconnaissance by photographing German trench positions...
A century of fighting on the aerial frontline ; Warfare is a thing that changes rapidly, geography doesn't. At the start of the last century Britannia ruled the wide waves with her massive battleships, but military leaders were beginning to realise that vessels alone weren't enough - flying machines were starting to take to the skies and by doing so they were changing the shape of naval warfare.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 7/2/2009; 700+ words ; Warfare is a thing that changes rapidly, geography doesn't. At the start of...take to the skies and by doing so they were changing the shape of naval warfare. You can do an awful lot up there in the clouds - you can, for example...
Military Channel's World Premiere Series Showdown: Air Combat Recreates Historic Dogfights Using Restored Fighters from Every Era of Aerial Warfare.
PR Newswire; 5/8/2008; 700+ words ; ...PRNewswire/ -- Military Channel takes viewers on an aerial journey in SHOWDOWN: AIR COMBAT, which features recreations...dogfights by pitting the restored aircraft from every era of aerial warfare against each other in the air. U.S. Air Force Major...
BOGOTA, CRESSKILL SET TO ENTER AERIAL WARFARE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...KEVIN NEWELL, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-01-1992 BOGOTA, CRESSKILL SET TO ENTER AERIAL WARFARE By KEVIN NEWELL, Record Staff Writer Date: 12-01-1992, Tuesday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions...
Belfast's aerial warfare
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 11/4/2008; ; 563 words ; SWOOPING birds of prey could become a familiar sight in Belfast City Centre if an innovative pest control scheme takes off. Jay Parker and his dad Tom have just launched a new pest control business using falconry to deter the feral pigeons that plague the city streets and leave their droppings. The
Legal and policy constraints on the conduct of aerial precision warfare.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...unintended civilian casualties in warfare. Mr. Canestaro demonstrates...War and Beyond: Precision Warfare Comes of Age III. THE RULES OF WARFARE A. Military Necessity B...technical challenges to precise aerial bombing, and the conduct of...