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Texte remanié de: Mémoire de recherche approfondie--Archéologie militaire--Paris--École du Louvre, 2004. / ISSN exact : 1155-5475. Bibliogr. p. 430-436. Index.

Texte remanié de: Th. État--Sociol.--Paris 8, 1981. Titre de soutenance : L'État et l'espace de la guerre : fortification et marine. / Précédemment paru sous le titre : "La pierre et le vent : fortifications et marine en Occident" Bibliogr., 5 p.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / As resources constrain investment decisions, what combination of parameters most effectively cause one force to defeat another? Using Hughes' Salvo equations, simulations are conducted to investigate the singular and pairwise effects of providing one force an advantage in its offensive power, defensive power, staying power, force size, and information. The purpose is to identify specific combinations that present potential priorities in ship design and force planning. Cases are examined in terms of fraction of forces killed and surviving, and consolidated in a comparison of fractional exchange ratios between the forces. Over the range of parameters explored, when forces are closely matched, a defensive advantage allows a force to outlast another, execute damage, and limit damage incurred to its own force. The Polya distribution of shots shows that the bonus gained by attaining perfect information is a significant edge, and the hazard of failing to deny the enemy the same. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

The Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC) was established to assist, determine, monitor, and track the fulfillment of Immediate Warfighter Needs (IWN's). This thesis has a primary goal to investigate whether the JRAC and its processes are value added to the DoD acquisition process, and a secondary goal to document the JRAC process and analyze its usage to date. Analysis such as this thesis may be used to determine if the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell is the correct model for rapid acquisition and if it should be institutionalized for the Global War on Terror and beyond. The thesis assesses the JRACs value against a base line of existing service rapid acquisition processes. Value centers derived from Knowledge Value Added (KVA) methodologies form the basis of the assessment. The thesis concludes with recommendations for JRAC institutionalization.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / Throughout history people have searched for a means of predicting the outcomes of battles. Data analysis is a way of understanding the factors associated with battle outcomes. There are objective factors, such as force ratio, and subjective factors, such as leadership, that affect battles. Subjective factors are hard to determine and thus are usually avoided in models. Here, nationality is investigated as a surrogate for subjective factors. That is, we want to see how nationality is associated with battle outcomes by exploring the best available data set on historical land combat-developed by the Center for Army Analysis. We focus on four countries for which there is sufficient data: the USA, Germany, Britain and Israel. We find that these countries historically use a substantial amount of military power to defeat their enemies. In particular, the USA often has overwhelming force. Using classification tree models, with a correct classification rate of 79 percent, the results suggest that nationality was the most important factor in battles before World War I and the second most important factor during the World Wars. Force ratio was the most important factor in WWI and artillery ratio in WWII. In the years following WWII, the dominant variable has been air force ratio. / First Lieutenant, Turkish Army

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The unique combination of thin air, freezing temperatures, and mountainous terrain that forms the high altitude environment has resisted advances in military technology for centuries. The emergence of precision warfare has altered the nature of warfare on most of the world's surface, yet has not significantly changed the conduct of ground combat at high altitude. The tactics that lead to victory on the high altitude battlefield have remained constant over time. This thesis examines the impact of the high altitude environment on soldiers, their weapons, and military operations, and identifies the lessons of the 1999 Kargil Conflict that are relevant to future high altitude combat. Combat at altitudes approaching 18,000 feet (5,485 m) above sea level between India and Pakistan at Kargil illustrates the timeless nature of high altitude warfare. U.S. combat experiences in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2002 parallel those of the combatants at Kargil despite the overwhelming technological advantage of U.S. forces. Trained and wellequipped light infantry is the only force capable of decisive maneuver in mountainous terrain. Heavy volumes of responsive firepower, in concert with bold maneuver, determine victory. Artillery, rather than air power, remains the preferred source of firepower to support ground maneuver. / Captain, United States Army

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / This thesis examines the organization and effectiveness of CNO priority 1 and 2 manning by conducting a comparison analysis on priority manning and non-priority manning for the AE and AW enlisted ratings from June of 2001to June of 2002. Priority manning was introduced in the Navy to ensure activities whose missions are essential to national interest are properly manned even when personnel shortages exist. Little formal analysis of priority manning has been conducted in the past and this research provides an overview of the steps in the process and the effects that priority manning has on the Navy's distribution system. The results of this research conclude that there is a need to improve the CNO priority manning process. Transition of process management occurred during this study to Pers-452/Allocation and Statistics Branch of the Navy Personnel Command. This thesis will provide an explanation of the process and recommendations to assist the new managers in implementing and monitoring the process more effectively. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

Developments in contemporary physics are having a great impact on recent scholarly endeavour in the humanities. In demonstrating that reality eludes traditional conceptions of representation, physics is instituting a reappraisal of our conceptions of how we describe the Universe. Overturning established notions of reality founded on a Cartesian doctrine of objectivity, quantum physics is said to prefigure postmodern metaphysics, effecting a convergence of contemporary thought in which the key themes are ?indeterminacy?, ?uncertainty?, and ?unknowability.? Having reached its empirical limits, physics presents us with the limits of our power to represent the world. Current physics is encountering its own ?event horizon? of knowledge which suggests that access to the real may be forever denied. Post-empirical physics in speculative mode is said to be undifferentiable from philosophy and aesthetics. Dominated by references to the unattainable and the unknowable, theories of everything dissolve the distinction between invention and discovery at the quantum scale and between the natural and the supernatural at the cosmological level. Trading in issues of limits and limitlessness, theoretical physics is operating at the extremes of metaphysical inquiry, disclosing themes of unity and fragmentation which revive tensions between the whole and the parts that have historically preoccupied all philosophical inquiry. This thesis argues that the representational problems encountered by physics can be more effectively mounted in aesthetic terms. Specifically, twentieth century physics embodies an implicit and unacknowledged aesthetic of the sublime within its discourse. The combination of the rational and the mystical, of science and metaphysics, of explanation and speculation which characterises contemporary physics offers partial presentations of a totality which, as a totality, is unpresentable. Dealing in entities and concepts which defy the imagination, physics attempts to encompass a whole which we are unable to comprehend as a whole at the level of the senses but which we can comprehend as an Idea of reason, thus enabling us to experience the sublime. The problem of articulation is now intrinsic to any scientific view of reality and the requirement for physicists to forego their ?customary demands for a visualisable description of nature? necessitates strategies by which to present the unpresentable. In occasioning imaginative representations which strive after something which lies beyond the bounds of experience, descriptions of the quantum realm disclose an aesthetic appraisal of the sublimity of nature which revives the Romanticist link between nature and aesthetics first established by Kant in the Critique of Judgement. Thus, physics can be located within the framework of the Kantian sublime. Adopting a theoretical approach grounded in hermeneutics, I extend the discussion of the sublime from its usual preoccupation with the visual arts to argue that the encounter with the unpresentable in physics is enforcing a shift to the poetic within the discourse analogous to the transition from representation to poiesis in Romantic aesthetics. Mystical interpretations of quantum mechanics, in particular, connect with the aesthetics of transcendence wherein natural science intersects with religion through the aesthetic perception of the infinite in the finite. In identifying knowledge of nature with the Absolute the discourse of physics is characterised by themes of ekstasis and transcendence which I conclude disclose a moral imperative which is embodied in the aesthetic judgement of the sublime. Hence, as a symbol of the mind?s relation to a transcendent order, physics, displacing art, enters the field opened up by the aesthetics of the sublime. / thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2002.