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.

On the other end of the political spectrum Robespierre opposed a war on two grounds, fearing that it would strengthen the monarchy and military at the expense of the revolution, and that it would incur the anger of ordinary people in Austria and elsewhere.

He did not return to military life until the outbreak of the revolution in 1775.

The small cases of ethnic conflict in rural Guatemala between 1944 and 1952 started an intense response among the Ladino elite for increased vigilance in rural areas, the denial of rights recently won through the revolution to Indians, and the frequent use of the military and violence to suppress the most minor sign of simmering unrest.

But the 1848 revolution turned out to be unsuccessful: King Frederick William IV of Prussia refused the imperial crown, the Frankfurt parliament was dissolved, the ruling princes repressed the risings by military force, and the German Confederation was re-established by 1850.

Political stability and instability both aided and distracted the economic revolution which transformed Honduras through the development of a plantation economy on the north coast, ultimately leading to military interventions from the United States.

In exceptional situations, such as war, occupation, revolution or a coup d ' état, constitutional institutions, including the symbolically crucial head of state, may be reduced to a figurehead or be suspended in favor of an emergency office ( such as the original Roman Dictator ) or eliminated by a new " provisionary " regime, such as a collective of the junta type, or removed by an occupying force, such as a military governor ( an early example being the Spartan Harmost ).

After the stated aim of the National Convention to export revolution, the guillotining of Louis XVI of France, and the French opening of the Scheldt, a European military coalition was formed and set up against France.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

Although Vietnam's historical record of leadership in the revolution and its military power and proximity will not cease to exist, Laos struck out ahead of Vietnam with its New Economic Mechanism to introduce market mechanisms into its economy.

Lenin, who had earlier hoped for a speedy Soviet revolution in Germany and other parts of Europe, quickly decided that the imperial government of Germany was still firmly in control and that, without a strong Russian military, an armed conflict with Germany would lead to a collapse of the Soviet government in Russia.

* 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.

This military rearrangement in Sanwan, Jiangxi initiated the CPC's absolute control over its military force and is considered to have had a fundamental and profound impact upon the Chinese revolution.

A new front of Marxist-Leninist revolution erupted in Africa, with revolutions in Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, and Somalia ; Marxist-Leninist liberation fronts in Angola and Mozambique revolting against Portguese colonial rule ; the overthrow of Haile Selassie and the creation of the Derg communist military junta in Ethiopia ; blacks led by Robert Mugabe in Rhodesia revolting against white-minority rule there.

The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Stalinist revolution in the South, and from early 1949 Kim sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force.

Changes in European military tactics and weaponry in the military revolution caused the once-feared Sipahi cavalry to lose military relevance.

The monarch, though initially inclined to use armed forces to suppress the rebellion, ultimately declined to leave Berlin for the safety of military headquarters at Potsdam ( Bismarck later recorded that there had been a " rattling of sabres in their scabbards " from Prussian officers when they learned that the King would not suppress the revolution by force ).

The revolution of August 1904 began as a popular movement, but Liberal rule quickly degenerated into factional feuding, military coups, and civil war.

At school with his fellow students however, Sergei would join the military to serve the revolution, which would divide him from his father.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

Actually the Atlanta campaign was a military failure.

Within the narrow frame of military tactics, too, the experts agree that the campaign was brilliant.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

The final tragedy described in Kings is the result of Israel's failure to uphold its part of the covenant: faithfulness to Yahweh brings success, economic, military and political, but unfaithfulness brings defeat and oppression.

Generally Heinz Guderian is attributed as creating the military doctrine later described as blitzkrieg.

He described the Cold War: " We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that " we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military – industrial complex.

A wide variety of leaders coming to power in a number of different kinds of regimes, such as military juntas, single-party states and civilian governments under personal rule, have been described as dictators.

As a consequence the Russian Tsar and his military leaders had attempted, since the 1870s, to unite their large, heterogeneous empire, described as a Russian multinational dynastic union.

Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.

With its roots in market research, ' competitive intelligence ' has been described as the ' application of principles and practices from military and national intelligence to the domain of global business '; it is the business equivalent of open-source intelligence.

Despite the safeguards built into the constitutions of most of these organizations, courts and tribunals, the concept of universal jurisdiction is controversial among those states which prefer unilateral to multilateral solutions through the use of executive or military authority, sometimes described as realpolitik-based diplomacy.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

It is sometimes unofficially described as " military ", reflecting its origin.

Having already proven his skills as a military leader, he is described in the lyrics as the one " who has shown us ways to victory.

The beginning of the 20th century marked the first time a movement in the arts was described as " avant-garde "— a term previously used in military and political contexts, which remained to describe movements which identify themselves as attempting to overthrow some aspect of tradition or the status quo.

The paramilitary groups were described as " the military arm of the Democratic Party " and were instrumental in helping secure Democratic victories in the South in the elections of 1876.

Historian S. C. Rowell has described his rise to power as taking place through " the familiar processes of marriage, murder and military conquest.

Konrad Kyeser described rockets in his famous military treatise Bellifortis around 1405.

Allen Brown described Château Gaillard as " one of the finest castles in Europe " and military historian Sir Charles Oman wrote that:

One example that straddles science fiction subgenres is Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series, which has been described by many as military science fiction but also has elements of space opera.

" The comment was described by the blog as " another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military ," and likened to John Kerry's similar remark from 2006.

He described the use of orbiting spacecraft for detailed peaceful and military observation of the ground and described how the special conditions of space could be useful for scientific experiments.

" A Siamese military campaign in Laos in 1876 was described by a British observer as having been " transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale ".

A " handful " of these Israelis were described as active Israeli military or intelligence operatives.