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Defense Technolgy, Dale K. Pace May 2018

Defense Technolgy, Dale K. Pace

Naval War College Review

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The Dreadful Fury: Advanced Military Technology And The Atlantic Alliance, D.K. Pace May 2018

The Dreadful Fury: Advanced Military Technology And The Atlantic Alliance, D.K. Pace

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Of Arms And Men: A History Of War, Weapons, And Aggression, Walter C. Uhler May 2018

Of Arms And Men: A History Of War, Weapons, And Aggression, Walter C. Uhler

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Chaos: Making A New Science, Robert Artigiani May 2018

Chaos: Making A New Science, Robert Artigiani

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


A Brief History Of Time, Frank C. Mahncke May 2018

A Brief History Of Time, Frank C. Mahncke

Naval War College Review

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Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College May 2018

Book Reviews, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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Some Operational Implications Of Stealth Warfare, James Patton May 2018

Some Operational Implications Of Stealth Warfare, James Patton

Naval War College Review

Occasionally, a hardware development springs upon us with extraordinary and lasting impact on the way we conduct war. Some exampled include the longbow, gunpowder, the machine gun, armored vehicles and nuclear energly. In some cases, such as the machine gun, theb impact is so immense that an overwhelming offensive or defensive advantage is created until the next "miricle weapon" is developed in response (armored vehicles, for example, to counter the machine gun). In the most extreme of caases, an entirely new category of warfare must be define to accommodate the magnitude of change wrought by a given developement, such as …


Egos Gone Wild: Threat Detection And The Domains Indicative Of Toxic Leadership, Matthew S. Arbogast May 2018

Egos Gone Wild: Threat Detection And The Domains Indicative Of Toxic Leadership, Matthew S. Arbogast

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Toxic leaders are a serious problem, but shockingly, there is no standard detection tool that is both efficient and accurate. Compounding the problem are the various definitions and descriptions used to operationalize toxic leadership. This research sought to align the literature, offer a concise definition, and assess the domains indicative of toxic leadership through two conceptually compatible studies. Study 1 involved development of a toxic leader threat detection scale. Results using a variable-centered approach indicated that follower perceptions (n = 357) of leader empathy (4-item scale; α = .93) and the need for achievement recognition (4-item scale; α = .83) …


Locating The Possibilities For Upward Mobility: Educating English Learners In A Segmented Opportunity Structure, Lyndsie Marie Schultz May 2018

Locating The Possibilities For Upward Mobility: Educating English Learners In A Segmented Opportunity Structure, Lyndsie Marie Schultz

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Immigrant families often view education as the pathway for upward mobility in the U.S. However, the location of schooling for children impacts the quality of the education they receive and their subsequent opportunities for assimilation and upward mobility. The segmented assimilation model does not explain assimilation fully because it ignores the impact of education for English Learning (EL) children. This dissertation integrates opportunity structure literature into the segmented assimilation framework by focusing on the education available to ELs in the location of settlement to examine possibilities for EL assimilation in a more holistic manner. The first study looks at how …


Elliptic Cryptosystem, Elizabeth Dettrey May 2018

Elliptic Cryptosystem, Elizabeth Dettrey

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The elliptic cryptographic algorithm first presented in a paper by E. F. Dettrey and E. A. Yfantis is examined and explained in this thesis. The algorithm is based on the group operations of a set of points generated from an ellipse of arbitrary radii, and arbitrary center in the case of the generalized version, modulo a large prime. The security of the algorithm depends on the difficulty of solving a discrete logarithm in the groups used by this algorithm. While the elliptic cryptographic algorithm is not the most secure among the discrete logarithm based paradigm of cryptosystems for a given …


To Remain Near The "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty And United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover May 2018

To Remain Near The "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty And United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis argues that Owens Valley Paiute sovereignty manifested itself both inherently and adaptively from 1870 to 1937. Sovereignty is an historically contingent term that reflects how nations deploy power to retain control over their communities and provide self-determination within economics, politics, culture, and society. This thesis illuminates Paiute sovereignty through the Peoplehood model, explaining how Paiute sovereignty existed at the moment of their creation, when Coyote placed them next to the Water Ditch—Owens River—and told them to spread throughout but never leave their homeland, the Owens Valley. This inherent mandate allowed Paiutes to adapt Coyote’s stipulation to remain in …


Power And Authority Of Royal Queen Mothers: Juxtaposing The French Queen Regent And The Ottoman Validé Sultan During The Early Modern Period, Reneé N. Langlois May 2018

Power And Authority Of Royal Queen Mothers: Juxtaposing The French Queen Regent And The Ottoman Validé Sultan During The Early Modern Period, Reneé N. Langlois

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Women and their relationship to sovereignty, during the early modern era has become a rapidly growing topic, given that during this period an unprecedented number of women rose to high positions of power. This paper aims to compare the lives of the queen regents in France with their counterparts, the validé sultans in the Ottoman Empire, over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when both groups of royal women acquired substantial power. Although these women were prohibited from ruling in their own right, the paper explores the ways in which queen regents and validé sultans used both official …


The American Civil War And The Origins Of Modern Warfare, Dennis E. Showalter, Edward Hagerman May 2018

The American Civil War And The Origins Of Modern Warfare, Dennis E. Showalter, Edward Hagerman

Naval War College Review

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Warfare In The Twentieth Century: Theory And Practice, W. D. Bushnell, Colin Mcinnes, G.D. Sheffield May 2018

Warfare In The Twentieth Century: Theory And Practice, W. D. Bushnell, Colin Mcinnes, G.D. Sheffield

Naval War College Review

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Burmese Refugee Health: The Value Of Plant-Based Medicine, Natalie Wodniak May 2018

Burmese Refugee Health: The Value Of Plant-Based Medicine, Natalie Wodniak

Student Theses 2015-Present

The nation of Myanmar (formerly Burma) has been undergoing violent ethnic cleansing for over 60 years. Members of minority ethnic groups such as the Karen, Chin, Mon, and Rohingya have been forced to flee their homelands. For many individuals in Myanmar, the primary form of healthcare is traditional medicine, in which plants and other natural resources are utilized for their medicinal compounds. The ability for plants to be used as medicine is one of the many ecosystem services of plants that has greatly benefitted humans. This paper examines the use of traditional medicine in Burmese refugees, as well as the …


Operating Outside Of Empire: Trading Citizenship In The Atlantic World, 1783-1815, Mark Dragoni May 2018

Operating Outside Of Empire: Trading Citizenship In The Atlantic World, 1783-1815, Mark Dragoni

Dissertations - ALL

Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815, looks at markets and ships as spaces for negotiation between merchants and the state. The dissertation follows the experiences of former British colonists in America who won independence and then immediately tried to find a way to get back into the British empire. For American merchants, such as Nicholas Low, William Constable, and Thomas Handasyd Perkins, the inconsistently-governed Caribbean provided an entry point to the greater British Atlantic and the markets of the empire. These merchants won access by exploiting the opportunities offered by environmental catastrophes, slave rebellions and …


History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity In The Postwar Hollywood Epic, Thomas Jefferson West Iii May 2018

History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity In The Postwar Hollywood Epic, Thomas Jefferson West Iii

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation focuses on the mid-20th Century historico-biblical epic—a film genre that flourished within Hollywood from 1949 to 1966 and which took as its subject the depiction of the ancient world—and reads this body of films as a mode of historical engagement. I argue that the historico-biblical epic takes the pressure of the terrifying possibility of the end of human history engendered by the atomic bomb and transmutes this into a series of dialectics, between agency and powerlessness, embodiment and transcendence, desire and punishment, imperial zenith and nadir. While antiquity seems to offer the modern world the ability to escape …


The Setaweet Way: An Articulation Of Ethiopian Feminism, Samrawit Alemayehu May 2018

The Setaweet Way: An Articulation Of Ethiopian Feminism, Samrawit Alemayehu

Theses - ALL

In Ethiopia, women’s organizing and mobilization is not new, however, outward claims of feminism and vocal allegiance to feminist ideals is a movement that has recently taken traction within the country. Despite following its own timeline, this resurgence in Ethiopia also takes place amongst the feminist movements found in the different nations on the continent. In Ethiopia, this contemporary iteration connects to broader discussions of the significant factors of migration, immigration, globalization, capitalism, modernity, and the new technological age. Subsequently, most of the scholarship pertaining to women’s socioeconomic issues takes the cultural or anthropological mode of exploration. More recently, scholars …


The South Central Soundscape: Understanding The Sounds Of The Streets As Social Commentary In Postindustrial Los Angeles, Kevin Prescott Morris May 2018

The South Central Soundscape: Understanding The Sounds Of The Streets As Social Commentary In Postindustrial Los Angeles, Kevin Prescott Morris

Theses - ALL

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how Black popular music sonically represents urban, ghetto landscapes through lyrics, timbres, tones, tempos, and samples as forms of social commentary and signifiers of an authentic Black experience. This project adopts the concept of the soundscape in order to tease out the ways music artists and producers sonically recreate their social environments, specifically understood as “the streets,” in order to provide nuanced social critiques about the social forces that dictate daily life. The project is situated in the South Central section of Los Angeles, California and follows a sonic chronology that traces …


To Plow A Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo And Mapuche Politics In Chile, 1920-1960, Henry John Stegeman May 2018

To Plow A Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo And Mapuche Politics In Chile, 1920-1960, Henry John Stegeman

Dissertations - ALL

This study examines Mapuche political organization in Chile from 1920-1960 through the lens of transnational indigenismo. In that period, politicians, academics and social reformers across the Americas were questioning how to incorporate indigenous populations into modern national states. While many historical accounts of similar phenomena in other countries have drawn categorical distinctions between indigenismo (as a movement led by white elites) and indigenous activism (led by Indians themselves), this work places the two phenomena side-by-side to explore connections between them. That approach shows that collaboration, periodic conflict and strategic alliance making were important components of indigenous politics in Chile. It …


The Evoulution Of Modern Land Warfare, James O'Brasky May 2018

The Evoulution Of Modern Land Warfare, James O'Brasky

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


A World Of Difference: Soviet Antisubmarine Warfarein 1991, Milan N. Vego May 2018

A World Of Difference: Soviet Antisubmarine Warfarein 1991, Milan N. Vego

Naval War College Review

The final years of the existence of the Soviet Union-a period that encompassed also the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organization were, notwithstanding, years of substantial development of antisubmarine warfare thought and capability in the Soviet navy. Some of this progress was readily visible to the West, particularly in the introduction of highly capable general-purpose nuclear submarines (SSNs).


Merchant Marine Officers' Handbook, Sayre A. Schwarztrauber May 2018

Merchant Marine Officers' Handbook, Sayre A. Schwarztrauber

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Sigint Secrets, Guy G. Thomas May 2018

The Sigint Secrets, Guy G. Thomas

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Leaders And Intelligence, R. Weyrick May 2018

Leaders And Intelligence, R. Weyrick

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


China: A Macrohistory, Roxane D.V. Sismanidis May 2018

China: A Macrohistory, Roxane D.V. Sismanidis

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Power And Insecurity: Bejing, Moscow, And Washington: 1949-1988, Michael T. Byrnes May 2018

Power And Insecurity: Bejing, Moscow, And Washington: 1949-1988, Michael T. Byrnes

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Red Banner: The Soviet Military System In Peace And War, Chris Staszak May 2018

Red Banner: The Soviet Military System In Peace And War, Chris Staszak

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Peary: The Explorer And The Man, Frank C. Mahncke May 2018

Peary: The Explorer And The Man, Frank C. Mahncke

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Armed Forces On A Northern Frontier, Patrick G. Sullivan May 2018

Armed Forces On A Northern Frontier, Patrick G. Sullivan

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.