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087874
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2009.
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Washington's plan to deploy a European segment of its missile defence system is a most sensitive issue and a major pet peeve of Russia - U.S. relations. Many observers agree that the ability of the sides to find a compromise solution to this problem would be indicative of the prospects for bilateral ties in the years to come.
PASSIONS OVER THE THIRD POSITION AREA
The planned third position area of a U.S. global missile defence system would include silos with interceptor missiles in Poland (the Ustka military range near the town of Slupsk in Pomeranian Voivodeship) and a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic (the Brdy military area near Jince, 60 km south-west of Prague). The first and second position areas of the ground-based echelon of the U.S. strategic missile defence system are deployed on the territory of the United States - in Fort Greely, Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, respectively.
The decision made by Washington in late 2005 to deploy a third position area near Russia's western border was taken by Moscow as a threat to its national security. (For more on this subject, see "Missile Defence Challenges" by Pavel Zolotarev in Russia in Global Affairs, N 3, July-September 2008.) To allay Moscow's fears, the George W. Bush administration made several attempts between 2006 and 2008 to convince the Russian leadership that the third position area was not directed against Russia.
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143287
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This research note presents the findings of a survey study among veterans from the Netherlands armed forces who participated in operations since the Second World War. The aim of the study is to reveal the veterans’ experiences with respect to their combat motivation—or lack thereof—and actual participation in combat actions. The data demonstrate that over time the degree of combat motivation has increased. The data also demonstrate that those who participated in combat actions and were motivated to do so are generally positive about operational and social–psychological aspects of the organization and its surroundings. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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192176
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The introduction to this special section presents an overview of crises of care in China today, specifically as they affect the fields of kinship, health and government. To study care ethnographically, we distinguish between the attentive and active dimensions of care: what people care about, and how they care for others. Acts of care always relate to larger concerns and general values, but they scale up in different ways. The imbalances that emerge are central to the politics of care that our contributors describe. Care as attentive co-growth engages different values, remakes inequality and nourishes political life. The contributors use the same framework of attention, action and politics to investigate crucial issues in Chinese society, including family, health, environment, ritual and animals. In all these fields, care provides a privileged vantage point from which to understand social and moral change in China today.
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130659
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2014.
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The authors examine the relationship between battlespace, cyberspace, and information environment from the perspective of combat actions conducted by tactical military formations in our day.
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