Making Sense of the Past: (Re)constructing the Local Memorial Landscape in a Post-Soviet Base in Poland by Dominika Czarnecka

“…The article focuses on (re)constructing the local memorial landscape in a post-Soviet military base in Poland and the process of forging the local identity of its new inhabitants in the years 1993–2015. …”
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Ground Shock Attenuation on a Buried Cylindrical Structure by a Barrier by Sylwester Kobielak, Theodor Krauthammer, Adam Walczak

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Dangerous Liaisons: Working Women and Sexual Justice in the American Civil War by E. Susan Barber, Charles F. Ritter

“…By the war’s end, however, an ethic of sexual justice emerged from Union military courts to provide women with a means of redressing their wartime sexual violation.   …”
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Western-Type Communications Research in the Third World by John Lent

“…Among complaints have been that the research grew up promoting business-industrial and military-psychological warfare aims (mainly of entities in the United States), and pushing for the status quo and homogenization of cultures. …”
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Islamistes et rebelles touaregs maliens : alliances, rivalités et ruptures by Emmanuel Grégoire

“…Inherent in their internal dynamics, the divisions partly explain why they recently failed on the political, military and religious levels. The author recalls the establishment of the Islamists in North Mali and examines their dissensions. …”
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Mauritanie 1956-1963 : les multiples dimensions d’une indépendance contestée by Camille Evrard

“…This contribution looks to improve our knowledge of the tense atmosphere that prevails in this country, target of several attacks between 1956 and 1963, and subject to an imposing military mobilization along its borders with the Spanish Sahara and Algeria at war. …”
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Espaces centrés et pouvoirs décentrés : l’exemple des fédérations villageoises dogon au XIXe siècle by Éric Jolly

“…These original federations emerged out of a new relation to space during the second half of the 18th century as a result of increasing warfare and raiding in the context of a denser, more diversified local population. Given mounting military pressure from neighboring states, resident groups no longer sought to appropriate a territory but to defend it by establishing its unity in the center, at the presumed place of foundation. …”
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Eunug in die antieke Nabye Ooste by M. Nel

“…The term is used in a different sense when it refers to a foreign person, i.e. a person in an official capacity in a king’s court (as in Gen. 37), or a military commander (as in 1 Kings 22:9; 2 Kings 8:7; 23:12; 25;19; Jer. 52:25). …”
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Physical layer security for the air-space-ground communication networks by Shuai HAN, Xiangxue TAI, Weixiao MENG

“…As a typical application of wireless communications,the air-space-ground communications networks are facing serious wireless communications security issues due to its inherent broadcast nature and wide coverage.Especially in the field of military satellite communications,the requirement of secure communications security is even more crucial.How to realize the security of communications is a problem must be faced.A model for physical layer security communication in air-space-ground communication network was proposed which was a cooperative layer-direct connect mixed-to-ground physical layer secure communication model.Based on this model,the security of the system was further improved by studying the relay selection problem and the power distribution problem of satellite and relay,and an overall scheme to enhance the confidentiality of the communication network was also proposed.…”
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Les négociations de la convention franco-ryūkyū : micro-histoire d’une relation diplomatique by Erina Shimooka

“…Having been concluded in the wake of a military display of power on the part of the French, this convention is generally considered an unequal treaty. …”
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Herbesinning oor die betekenis en funksionering van die stadspoort gedurende die Yster II-tyd in ou Israel by A Coetzee

“…These fortification methods are products of culture and were chosen as a result of military, economic, strategic and social considerations. …”
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Dābiq et la frontière du Dār al-Islām by Eva Collet

“…This area is then relegated to the background as the military front in Cilicia is gradually consolidating. …”
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Figuig et sa région dans l’imaginaire des militaires français au milieu du xixe siècle by Youness Khalloufi, Agnès Charpentier

“…It was also the beginning of a new period of expeditions that would lead the military into the Sahara. Analysis of archives dating from the second half of the 19th century shows how invading armies apprehended these new territories and their populations. …”
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Advanced Studies in Clinical and Experimental Research in Gastroenterology by Ilja Tacheci, Jithinraj Edakkanambeth Varayil, Zuzana Zelinkova, Marcela Kopacova, Miroslav Zavoral

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O romance dos pais, o romance dos filhos: os personagens secundários de Alejandro Zambra by Isabela Cordeiro Lopes

“…Situated in the Post-dictatorship period, the characters who share the text’s narrative, also share the fact that they were children and teenagers during the military dictatorhip in Chili. Those « dictatorship sons » have to integrate the world , thus telling their experiences as secondary actors or leading characters as they appear in their memories and in the national memory, till they make sense. …”
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Nonlinear Finite-Horizon Regulation and Tracking for Systems with Incomplete State Information Using Differential State Dependent Riccati Equation by Ahmed Khamis, D. Subbaram Naidu, Ahmed M. Kamel

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From Low Engagement to High Engagement: Explaining Turkey’s Changing Engagement in the Middle East during the JDP Period by İsmail AKDOĞAN, Furkan POLAT

“…While Turkey prioritized diplomatic, commercial and economic relations during the first decade of the 2000s, it has increasingly used military means to influence the Middle East since 2011. …”
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Determination of the Specific Surface Areas of Non-Porous and Macroporous Carbons by J. Choma, M. Jaroniec

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Autonomous drone warfare by Martín Carbajo-Núñez OFM

“… Recently, a military robot has autonomously taken the decision to attack enemy troops in the Libyan war without waiting for any human intervention. …”
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Du détroit de Malacca jusqu’à sa périphérie by Eric Frécon

“…Eventually, piracy appears as a ‘land roots’ threat, with more social than military dimensions and implications.…”
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