With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, strengthened Bulgaria's position as a regional military power, significantly reduced Ottoman influence over the Balkans, and resulted in the formation of an independent Albanian state.

In the First World War Bulgaria decisively asserted its military capabilities.

The appearance of the aircraft and tank in the First World War, often hailed as a revolution in military affairs ( RMA ), offered the German military a chance to get back to the traditional war of movement as practiced by Moltke the Elder.

The Serbs and the Greeks had a military advantage on the eve of the war because their armies confronted comparatively weak Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War and suffered relatively light casualties while the Bulgarians were involved in heavy fighting in Thrace.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

After military service, he attended the University of Birmingham where he graduated in 1951 with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology.

Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War.

Albert had a successful military career leading Saxon troops which participated in the First War of Schleswig, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War.

First, he left his son Saloninus as Caesar at Cologne, under the supervision of Albanus ( or Silvanus ) and the military leadership of Postumus.

He rose to prominence through his service in the First World War, receiving numerous honours and decorations, and continued his military career through various British campaigns across Europe and Asia.

* 1966 – The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d ' état.

He fought the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War of 66 – 73 as a Jewish military leader in Galilee.

Kenya became a military base for the British in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), as efforts to subdue the German colony to the south were frustrated.

The Italian communes were granted almost complete autonomy from the very early days of the Kingdom, thanks to their military and naval support in the years following the First Crusade.

The first military orders of knighthood were the Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar ( 1119 ).

In 1918, his art was to change dramatically as a direct consequence of Germany's economic, political and military collapse at the end of the First World War.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

St-Laurent's government was modestly progressive and fiscally conservative, taking taxation surpluses no longer needed by the wartime military and paying back in full Canada's debts accrued during the First World War, the Great Depression and World War II.

Marcionism, an early Christian sect, held that the Old and New Testaments were the work of two opposing gods: both were First Principles, but of different religions.

The Conté government was deeply involved in the First Liberian Civil War as it supported ULIMO, the major grouping opposing Taylor in Liberia.

The Ultramontanist movement after Italian Unification and the abrupt ( and unofficial ) end of the First Vatican Council in 1870 ( due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ), and the opposing Conciliarism, became obsolete to a large extent.

The IWW was well known for opposing the First World War from 1914 onwards, and in many ways was at the front of the anti-conscription fight.

From 1935 the First Labour Government showed a limited degree of idealism in foreign policy, for example opposing the appeasement of Germany and Japan.

First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the opposing side is left unable to continue war.

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First, the two opposing capillary walls establish a zone of contact.

Some of the founders of the WSF, were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism.

First, it had to dispose of legal bills accumulated from opposing Brickman.

" The court then ruled that Activision's First Amendment defense was meritless, No Doubt had a reasonable probability of prevailing on the merits, and that No Doubt was entitled to recover costs and attorney's fees incurred in opposing Activision's appeal.

Thomas was initially as outspoken in opposing the Second World War as he was with regard to the First World War.

During the 1940s, the pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh and many other prominent Americans led the America First Committee in opposing any involvement in the war against fascism.

By 31 July, XIX Corps had destroyed the last forces opposing the First Army, and Bradley's troops were finally freed from the bocage.

The First Battle of Bull Run provided the initial opportunity to photograph an engagement between opposing armies.

This state, created in 1918 from Austro-Hungarian part, ( Slovenia, Croatia, Vojvodina, Bosnia and Herzegovina ) and Serbia and Montenegro, which were opposing sides during the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), contained a germ of numerous future conflicts.

He was against military actions against some of the colony's foreign neighbors, opposing official intervention in a French Acadian dispute in the 1640s, and also spoke against attacking the New Netherlands during the First Anglo-Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

Initially opposing the First World War, he later came to support the war effort.

However, it has recently taken an active role in opposing President Obama's health-care reform, and its briefs contain no First Amendment arguments.

He was a leading member of the America First movement, opposing U. S. involvement in World War II.

In the First Division, Kinkladze frequently had two or even three opposing players assigned to man mark him.

The First World War interrupted the Exhibition when Germany and Russia entered the conflict on opposing sides.

In particular, First Apostolic adherents would recoil at being labelled " Laestadian "; for them, " Laestadians " are the opposing side of the 1973 schism.

However, in Belgium to the north, opposing the French Fifth Army and BEF, were the German First, Second and Third Armies, forming the mass of Schlieffen's right wing.