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Modern and warfare
Modern warfare since
the late Renaissance has relied upon firearms
, with wide-ranging effects on military history
and history
in general.
Modern air
warfare technology
and the invention
of the atomic bomb had changed
the importance
of the military base
.

During
the Renaissance
and the Early
Modern period
, siege
warfare dominated
the conduct
of war
in Europe
.

During
the Renaissance
and the Early
Modern period
, siege
warfare continued
to dominate
the conduct
of the European wars
.
Modern wargaming originated with
the military need
to study
warfare and to ' reenact ' old battles for instructional purposes
.
Modern scholars accepting his historicity place
the completion
of The Art
of War
in the Warring States Period ( 476 – 221 BC ), based on
the descriptions
of warfare in the text
, and on
the similarity
of text's prose
to other works completed
in the early Warring States period
.
Modern warfare, however
, does still see
the use of the bayonet for close-quarter fighting
.
Modern flamethrowers
were first used during
the trench warfare conditions
of World War I ; their
use greatly increased
in World War II
.

* Early
Modern warfare

In
the later transformation
of its meaning during
the European period
of Early
Modern warfare the order of battle came
to mean
the order in which the units manoeuvered or deployed onto
the battlefield
to form battle-lines
, with
the positioning on
the right considered
the place
of greatest honour
.
Modern military theory attempts
to challenge entrenched mindsets
in dealing with asymmetric
warfare, terrorism
, and the proliferation
of weapons
of mass destruction
.

Urban conflicts
in Free Imperial Cities
, which sometimes amounted
to class
warfare, were not uncommon
in the Early
Modern Age
, particularly
in the 17th century ( Lübeck
, 1598 – 1669 ; Schwäbisch Hall
, 1601 – 1604 ; Frankfurt
, 1612 – 1614 ; Wezlar
, 1612 – 1615 ; Erfurt
, 1648 – 1664 ; Cologne
, 1680 – 1685 ; Hamburg 1678-1693
, 1702 – 1708 ).

With
the end
of the Middle Ages
and the professional standing armies
of Early
Modern warfare, the concept
of a " warrior class " or " military caste " became an anachronism
.

In some historical discourses
, " Drang nach Osten " combines historical German settlement
in Eastern Europe
, medieval military expeditions like
the ones
of the Teutonic Knights
, and Germanisation policies
and warfare of Modern Age German states like
the Nazi lebensraum concept
.

*
Modern warfare ( disambiguation )
Modern submarine
warfare consists primarily
of diesel
and nuclear submarines using weapons ( like torpedoes
, missiles or nuclear weapons ), as well as advanced sensing equipment
, to attack other submarines
, ships
, or
land targets
.

Trinquier is
a theorist on
the style
of warfare he called
Modern Warfare
, an " interlocking system
of actions-political
, economic
, psychological
, military-which aims at
the overthrow
of the established authority
in a country
and its replacement by another regime
.
Modern naval
warfare is divided into three operational areas: surface
warfare, air
warfare and submarine
warfare.
Modern surface
warfare dates from
the mid 20th century
, when surface
, air
, and submarine
warfare components
were blended together as
a tactical unit
to achieve strategic objectives
.
Modern rocket propelled grenades can penetrate almost
of steel armour
, posing
a serious threat
to tanks operating
in environments
of asymmetric
warfare.
Modern and was

He
was able
to smell
a bargain
-- and a masterpiece
-- a continent away
, and the Museum
of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said
of him: `` I have never mentioned
a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''
.

German Alpen is
the accusative
in origin
, but
was made
the nominative
in Modern German
, whence also Alm
.
Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim
was one
of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned
in stanza 2
of the eddic poem Völuspá
.

Alexander I ( c
. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim (
Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim )
and nicknamed " The Fierce ",
was King
of the Scots from 1107
to his death
.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ;
Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 )
was King
of Scots from

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ;
Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 )
was King
of Scots from 1249
to his death
.
Modern Latin America
was not
a British-style system
of overseas colonies
.

Aeolus (, Aiolos
, Modern Greek: ),
a name shared by three mythic characters
, was the ruler
of the winds
in Greek mythology
.
Modern weapons include
the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka
and Tunguska-M1
, South Korean K30 Biho
and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan
, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA
, Swedish CV9040 AAV
, Polish PZA Loara
, American M6 Bradley Linebacker
and M1097 Humvee Avenger
, Yugoslavian BOV-3
, Canadian ADATS
, aging German Gepard
, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG
and similar versions with
the British Marksman turret (
which was also adapted for
a number
of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25
and Otomatic
, and versions
of the French AMX-13
.
Modern advertising
was created with
the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising
in the 1920s
, most significantly with
the campaigns
of Edward Bernays
, which is often considered
the founder
of modern
, Madison Avenue advertising
.
Modern Bulgarian
was based essentially on
the Eastern dialects
of the language
, but its pronunciation is
in many respects
a compromise between East
and West Bulgarian ( see especially
the phonetic sections below ).
Modern scholarly thinking is that
the books originated by combining
a number
of independent texts
of various ages when
the larger Deuteronomistic history (
the Former Prophets plus Deuteronomy )
was being composed
in the period c
. 630-540 BCE
.
Modern estimates suggest half
of Europe's population
was wiped out before
the plague disappeared
in the 700s
.
Modern historians disagree on whether
the plague
was a critical factor
in the loss
of the war
.

More recently
, William D
. Rubinstein
, Professor
of Modern History at Aberystwyth University
, Wales
, wrote that Conservative politician
and pro-Zionist Leo Amery
, as Assistant Secretary
to the British war cabinet
in 1917
, was the main author
of the Balfour Declaration
.

" Ten Thousand Dollars A Page "
was filmed at
the Pasadena Art Museum
, later known as
the Pasadena Museum
of Modern Art
and now
the Norton Simon Museum
of Art
.
Modern Times
was announced by Chaplin as "
a satire on certain phases
of our industrial life
.
Modern Times ( 1936 ),
which depicted factory workers
in dismal conditions
, was the first
of his films that
was seen by critics
to contain an anti-capitalist message
, although Chaplin denied
the film being
in any way political
.

" Smile ", composed originally for
Modern Times ( 1936 )
and later set
to lyrics by John Turner
and Geoffrey Parsons
, was a hit for Nat King Cole
in 1954
.

Although
the first representatives
of leafy
trees and true grasses emerged
in the Cretaceous
, the flora
was still dominated by conifers like Araucaria ( Here:
Modern Araucaria araucana
in Chile ).

Of Japan's influence on
the genre
, William Gibson said
, "
Modern Japan simply
was cyberpunk
.

The term " consequentialism "
was coined by G
. E
. M
. Anscombe
in her essay "
Modern Moral Philosophy "
in 1958
, to describe what she saw as
the central error
of certain moral theories
, such as those propounded by Mill
and Sidgwick
.

The glossing
was probably brought
to England as Old French crimne ( 12th century form
of Modern French crime ), from Latin crimen (
in the genitive case: criminis ).
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