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Military Strategy: Theory And Concepts, Randall G. Bowdish Jun 2013

Military Strategy: Theory And Concepts, Randall G. Bowdish

Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Military strategy was long described as atheoretical—an art that could only be fully comprehended by military genius. This contention is no longer held, as military staffs, comprised of experts and specialists, are able to formulate strategy aided by mini-theories of strategy and a process that takes advantage of collective wisdom rather than singular genius. But the mini-theories of strategy remain underdeveloped and an overarching theory of military strategy does not yet exist. In this dissertation I build a grand theory of military strategy, consisting of a simple two-pole, physical and psychologically oriented framework, mini-theories of military strategy, and additionally, concepts …


Escaping The Obvious: Skewing Properties Of Interaction, Sus Lundgren, Dimitrios Gkouskos Jun 2013

Escaping The Obvious: Skewing Properties Of Interaction, Sus Lundgren, Dimitrios Gkouskos

Nordes Conference Series

Most design methods used within interaction design originate from other disciplines. As a result, there are few methods which can focus on designing or redesigning interaction in itself. In this paper we present a structured ideation method called Skewing, which is based on changing already identified, interaction-related properties of an artifact. Hereby, designers can generate interesting re-designs whose interaction design differs from the original product. Moreover, the structured approach in Skewing helps in finding the unusual design solutions in the outer rims of the design space. Lastly, Skewing can also be used as a means to teach the materiality of …


Commencement Program: 2013, Governors State University Jun 2013

Commencement Program: 2013, Governors State University

Commencement Documents and Videos

No abstract provided.


Integrating Art Therapy And Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing To Treat Post Traumatic Stress, Holland Elizabeth Breed Jun 2013

Integrating Art Therapy And Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing To Treat Post Traumatic Stress, Holland Elizabeth Breed

LMU Theses and Dissertations

This research study explored the integration of Art Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to treat clients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The study explored how art therapy and EMDR can be combined effectively. First, a literature review investigated previous research connecting trauma and its neurological impact, as well as the subsequent causes, symptoms and criteria for PTSD, as well as the connection between neurobiology to art therapy and EMDR. Second, an in-depth interview with a licensed MFT and registered art therapist who is also a certified EMDR practitioner portrays the ways combining art therapy and EMDR to …


The Role Of Psycho-Sociocultural Factors In Suicide Risk Among Mong/Hmong Youth, Tangjudy Vang Jun 2013

The Role Of Psycho-Sociocultural Factors In Suicide Risk Among Mong/Hmong Youth, Tangjudy Vang

Dissertations and Theses

This study examined psychological, social, and cultural factors that can affect suicide risk among Mong/Hmong youth between the ages of 18 and 25. Emerging evidence suggests that Mong/Hmong youth are at an increased risk for suicide (Huang, Lee, & Arganza, 2004; Jesilow & Xiong, 2007). Additionally, initial findings and theories have suggested potential associations between Mong/Hmong youth suicide risk and intergenerational family conflict, ethnic identity, acculturation, depression, and spirituality. The seriousness of suicide risk among Mong/Hmong youth in this country has been overlooked for decades; therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine these associations with the hope that …


The Korean Conflict And The United States National Security, Matthew Smith Jun 2013

The Korean Conflict And The United States National Security, Matthew Smith

Pepperdine Policy Review

The United States has a substantial interest in the Korean Conflict concerning its own national security. It is based primarily on the potential outcomes of the policies deriving from North Korea. The United States must maintain its relationship with South Korea in order to address any situation that arises on the Korean peninsula.


No Music In Timbuktu: A Brief Analysis Of The Conflict In Mali And Al Qaeda’S Rebirth, Nicholas Primo Jun 2013

No Music In Timbuktu: A Brief Analysis Of The Conflict In Mali And Al Qaeda’S Rebirth, Nicholas Primo

Pepperdine Policy Review

State Department officials stated at the end of 2011 that after a careful review of year's events concerning the terror group Al Qaeda, the threat of terrorism was now greatly diminished with little chance of retunring. Less than four months later, Al Qaeda affiliate group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) staged a coup in the West African country of Mali, effectively splitting the country in half. The article will analyze the conflict in Mali as an example of how Islamic fundamentalism and global terrorism of Al Qaeda has not dissipated, despite the best hopes of American foreign policymakers. …


Characterization Of Optical Communication In A Leader-Follower Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Formation, Firat Eren, Shachak Pe'eri, May-Win Thein Jun 2013

Characterization Of Optical Communication In A Leader-Follower Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Formation, Firat Eren, Shachak Pe'eri, May-Win Thein

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

As part of the research to development an optical communication design of a leader-follower formation between unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), this paper presents light field characterization and design configuration of the hardware required to allow the use of distance detection between UUVs. The study specifically is targeting communication between remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). As an initial step in this study, the light field produced from a light source mounted on the leader UUV was empirically characterized and modeled. Based on the light field measurements, a photo-detector array for the follower UUV was designed. Evaluation of the communication algorithms to monitor …


Fourth Time's The Charm?: Modeling A Psychologically-Based Peace Iv Program In Northern Ireland, Cailin A. Rogers Jun 2013

Fourth Time's The Charm?: Modeling A Psychologically-Based Peace Iv Program In Northern Ireland, Cailin A. Rogers

The Macalester Review

Abstract: Social conflict has consumed Northern Ireland for centuries. The relationship between Catholic Nationalists and Protestant Loyalists has proved difficult to reconcile–current policy approaches have been unable to attain peace. This paper seeks to explore the gaps in policy created by ignoring the important distinction between the social identities Nationalists and Loyalists have created and which they continue to perpetuate. This paper examines Social identity theory in context of Northern Ireland and applies the psychology of disparate community identities to current policies and trends in Northern Ireland to suggest reasons for a lack of progress towards peace. Unfortunately, contemporary Northern …


Book Reviews Jun 2013

Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Transition And Transformation : With Special Reference To The Translation Practice Of Eileen Chang In The 1950s Hong Kong = 過渡與變革 : 一九五○年代張愛玲等人在香港的翻譯實踐, Yifeng Sun Jun 2013

Transition And Transformation : With Special Reference To The Translation Practice Of Eileen Chang In The 1950s Hong Kong = 過渡與變革 : 一九五○年代張愛玲等人在香港的翻譯實踐, Yifeng Sun

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.


Treading Water While Congress Ignores The Nation's Environment, Sandra Zellmer Jun 2013

Treading Water While Congress Ignores The Nation's Environment, Sandra Zellmer

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recognizing 'Game Changers' In Extrapolation Models: An Application To Counterinsurgency, Micah Dolcort-Silver Jun 2013

Recognizing 'Game Changers' In Extrapolation Models: An Application To Counterinsurgency, Micah Dolcort-Silver

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recent empirical studies suggest insurgencies may be accurately described by aggregated extrapolation models, such that past behavior becomes the best predictor for future action. I argue that aggregated extrapolation models possess two flaws that make it a poor choice for examining insurgencies. First, aggregated extrapolation models ask the wrong question. The more interesting question is to ask when present action is no longer explainable by past behavior. Secondly, aggregate models mask changes that a phenomenon undergoes over time which are only revealed upon disaggregating the data. Starting with a model and findings provided by Neil Johnson, I use casualty data …


Encounter At Comic Con, Carly Jerome Jun 2013

Encounter At Comic Con, Carly Jerome

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Comic books and comic book culture have always been a man's world - until recently. With the growing popularity of graphic novels, movies based off of comic books, and publishers creating more feminist-friendly work, the gender lines are blurring. The short documentary Encounter at Comic Con examines gender stereotypes, and attempts to challenge them. Traveling to Denver's first ever Comic Convention, filmmaker Carly Jerome interviews attendees, professional costume players, and then turns the camera on herself. Her findings are fascinating, but it is her personal journey during the three-day event that is most compelling.


"As Our Elders Taught Us To Speak It": Chinuk Wawa And The Process Of Creating Authenticity, Kylie N. Johnson Jun 2013

"As Our Elders Taught Us To Speak It": Chinuk Wawa And The Process Of Creating Authenticity, Kylie N. Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Chinuk Wawa (also called Chinook Jargon) began as a trading language of the Pacific Northwest in the late eighteenth century. As it developed, it became the major heritage language of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, an intertribal nation located in Oregon. Now, as older speakers of the language pass on, there is an effort by the Grand Ronde to revitalize this language not only on the Grand Ronde Reservation, but also in nearby Portland, Oregon. However, revitalization can be a complicated process, as tribal leaders attempt to define Chinuk to maintain its traditions while adapting its vocabulary for …


The Future Of Military Virtue: Autonomous Systems And The Moral Deskilling Of The Military, Shannon Vallor Jun 2013

The Future Of Military Virtue: Autonomous Systems And The Moral Deskilling Of The Military, Shannon Vallor

Philosophy

Autonomous systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), anti-munitions systems, armed robots, cyber attack and cyber defense systems, are projected to become the centerpiece of 21st century military and counter-terrorism operations. This trend has challenged legal experts, policymakers and military ethicists to make sense of these developments within existing normative frameworks of international law and just war theory. This paper highlights a different yet equally profound ethical challenge: understanding how this trend may lead to a moral deskilling of the military profession, potentially destabilizing traditional norms of military virtue and their power to motivate ethical restraint in the conduct of war. …


Herbert Hoover And Belgian Relief, Albert Winkler Jun 2013

Herbert Hoover And Belgian Relief, Albert Winkler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Two Presidents of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover, are known to have Swiss ancestry. Eisenhower is noted for his generalship in the Second World War and his presidential administration in a time of prosperity for the nation, while Hoover is often remembered only for his unpopular presidency during the Great Depression . This is unfortunate because Hoover contributed to the well-being and survival of many millions of people during times of grave food shortages. His efforts, which began with the feeding of the nation of Belgium during World War I, prevented starvation in many areas of the …


Clemson A&M College Class Of 1939 Reunion Program 2013, Clemson University Jun 2013

Clemson A&M College Class Of 1939 Reunion Program 2013, Clemson University

Reunion Programs

No abstract provided.


Foreword = 前言, Yifeng Sun, Shuk Han Wong Jun 2013

Foreword = 前言, Yifeng Sun, Shuk Han Wong

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.


Navigating Conflicts In Cyberspace: Legal Lessons From The History Of War At Sea, Jeremy Rabkin, Ariel Rabkin Jun 2013

Navigating Conflicts In Cyberspace: Legal Lessons From The History Of War At Sea, Jeremy Rabkin, Ariel Rabkin

Chicago Journal of International Law

Despite mounting concern about cyber attacks, the United States has been hesitant to embrace retaliatory cyber strikes in its overall defense strategy. Part of the hesitation seems to reflect concerns about limits imposed by the law of armed conflict. But analysts who invoke today's law of armed conflict forget that war on the seas has always followed different rules. The historic practice of naval war is a much better guide to reasonable tactics and necessary limits for conflict in cyberspace. Cyber conflict should be open-as naval war has been-to hostile measures short of war, to attacks on enemy commerce, to …


Treating Offshore Submerged Lands As Public Lands: A Historical Perspective, Robin Kundis Craig Jun 2013

Treating Offshore Submerged Lands As Public Lands: A Historical Perspective, Robin Kundis Craig

Public Land & Resources Law Review

When President Harry Truman proclaimed federal control over the United States’ continental shelf in 1945, he did so primarily to secure the energy resources—oil and gas—embedded in those submerged lands. Nevertheless, the mineral wealth of the continental shelf spurred two critical legal battles over their control and disposition: first, whether the federal government had any interest in the first three miles of continental shelf; and second, if so, whether the federal government had authority to regulate the continental shelf under traditional federal public land laws, such as the Minerals Leasing Act. Congress’s reactions to federal courts’ resolutions of these questions, …


Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher Of Fashion, Robert S. Covolo Jun 2013

Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher Of Fashion, Robert S. Covolo

Pro Rege

Robert S. Covolo presented this paper at the Christian Evasion of Popular Culture Conference at Dordt College, November 2012.


Robert Douglas Smith And Kelly De Vries. The Artillery Of The Dukes Of Burgundy, 1363-1477, Kelsey Ransick Jun 2013

Robert Douglas Smith And Kelly De Vries. The Artillery Of The Dukes Of Burgundy, 1363-1477, Kelsey Ransick

Swiss American Historical Society Review

From the 1360s to the 1470s, the Valois Dukes of Burgundy increasingly employed artillery in both siege warfare and head-on battles. For over a century, these four dukes integrated gunpowder weaponry into different military units, forging the way for other European powers to quickly determine where such weapons would be most successful. In 1476, however, a large Swiss confederation defeated Charles the Bold, capturing the majority of Burgundian artillery. Twenty-three of the twenty-seven surviving pieces still reside in Switzerland in various museums, and their loss was a devastating blow to the Burgundians who had come to rely fairly heavily upon …


Execution In Virginia, 1859: The Trials Of Green And Copeland, Steven Lubet Jun 2013

Execution In Virginia, 1859: The Trials Of Green And Copeland, Steven Lubet

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Brithish National Strategy: Who Does It?, Hew Strachan Jun 2013

Brithish National Strategy: Who Does It?, Hew Strachan

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Usawc Press Jun 2013

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Autodenominations: An Ethnographer’S Account From Peruvian Amazonia, Peter Gow Jun 2013

Autodenominations: An Ethnographer’S Account From Peruvian Amazonia, Peter Gow

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.


Mission, Food, And Commensality Among The Yukpa: Indigenous Creolization And Emerging Complexities In Indigenous Modernities, Ernst Halbmayer Jun 2013

Mission, Food, And Commensality Among The Yukpa: Indigenous Creolization And Emerging Complexities In Indigenous Modernities, Ernst Halbmayer

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès Jun 2013

Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.


A Class Act? Social Class Affirmative Action And Higher Education, Maimon Schwarzschild Jun 2013

A Class Act? Social Class Affirmative Action And Higher Education, Maimon Schwarzschild

San Diego Law Review

Comparing class preferences with racial preferences helps to point up some of the reasons for the allure of class preferences but also points up some of the problems. A crucial consideration is the question of who is to receive class preference. For example, what about immigrants and their children? In general, social class is difficult to define, and this very difficulty would confer great discretion and power on faculties and academic administrators who undertake to bestow class preferences: discretion that would be open to abuse for political, ideological, and other ends. Finally, there is the question of whether preferential treatment …