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audience responses to,
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179
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207

confidence and vision in,
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237
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43

definition,
179
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emotional component (
pathos
) of,
25
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63
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140
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188
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208

history, role of,
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238

interpretative framework of,
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84
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214
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8

moral component of (
ethos
),
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own side, in relation to,
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rational component of (
logos
),
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225
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rhetoric, as,
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strategic dialogue:
14

strategy, relationship to,
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Western,
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strategy:
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culminating point of attack,
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procedural/constitutional aspects,
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strategic dialogue,
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144
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243

strategic level,
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92
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7

Subandrio, Dr: Indonesian Foreign Minister,
158
,
160

Subritzky, John:
Confronting Sukarno
(2000),
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Suharto: rise to power (1967),
159
,
177

Sukarno, Ahmed:
161
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165
,
167
,
171
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174

President of Indonesia,
158
–
9
,
163

Suleiman the Magnificent:
59
,
61

Summers, Colonel Harry:
36

Sun Tzu:
The Art of War
,
41

Switzerland:
135

Tacitus:
57
,
85

Tactical action, conceptual:
93
–
7
,
107
,
111
,
115
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16
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118
,
121
,
129
,
141
–
44
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147
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177
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214
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237

Bin Taimur, Sultan Said:
152

Tamil Tigers: defeat of (2009),
1
,
13
,
153
,
209
,
232

Tara Phagami Corporal:
59

Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald:
149
,
166

Third Punic War (149–146 BCE): destruction of Carthage,
132

Thornycroft, Peter: British Secretary of State for Defence,
160

Tirah Campaign (1897–8):
87
–
8

Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace
(1869),
216
–
17

Trajan: territory conquered by,
59

Truman, Harry S.:
114

foreign policy of,
217

Tu, Colonel:
36
–
7

Tuck, Christopher:
176

United Kingdom:
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7
,
15
,
25
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62
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83
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87
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107
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127
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Battle of Hastings (1066),
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Brigade of Gurkhas,
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19
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60
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90
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192
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211

Coldstream Guards,
204

Foreign and Commonwealth
Office,
43
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172
–
3

government of,
42
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125
,
158
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161
,
163
–
4
,
167
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174
,
221

Gurkha Welfare Scheme,
221

House of Commons,
158

House of Commons Defence Select Committee,
101

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report (2011),
51
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2

Labour Party,
242

London,
182
,
208

military of,
2
,
41
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2
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48
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9
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3
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126
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153
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165
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225

Mercian Regiment,
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Ministry of Defence,
171

National Security Strategy (2010),
241
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2

navy of,
173

Parachute Regiment,
43
,
169

Parliament,
43
,
51
,
122
,
225
,
242

parliamentary expenses scandal (2009),
222
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3

Royal Air Force (RAF),
173

Sandhurst Military Academy,
17
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136
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7

Special Air Service (SAS),
151

Strategic Defence Review,
242

United Nations (UN):
38
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159
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162
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3

Charter,
173

Security Council,
173

United States Army War College: faculty of,
140

United States of America (USA):
10
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99
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145
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159
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60
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163
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4
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181

9/11 attacks,
229
,
242

Air Force,
199

Civil War (1861–5),
59

Congress,
229

Democratic Party,
100

Federal Reserve,
213

government of,
146
,
213

Marine Corps,
103
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125
,
138
,
181

Military Academy at West Point,
113

military of,
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7
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63
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113
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146
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National Security Council,
123

navy of,
94
,
181

Pentagon,
141

Republican Party,
100

Tea Party,
214

US Army and Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual
,
144

use of drone strikes by,
3

War Department,
114

use of force: absolute/total war, in relation to limited war,
12
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36
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39
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54
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56
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64
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66
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armed political activity/politicisation of conflict,
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147
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213
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229
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32
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38
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a-symmetry in conflict,
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decisiveness in conflict,
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domestic politics, analogy with,
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33

grammar/explosive expansion of war,
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29
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238

interpretive concept of war/mechanism of war,
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kinetic (violent) and non-kinetic (non-violent) means,
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8
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measures of effect,
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military domain,
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polarity, see ‘enemy'

sequential/cumulative campaigns,
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15
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‘sides', concept of, see ‘enemy'

time, concept of in definition of a conflict's outcome,
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traditional paradigm of,
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violence in conflict, concept of,
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235

Vann, Colonel John Paul:
103
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149

Varus, Publius Quinctilius: defeat of (9 CE),
35
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6

victory, concept of: see ‘decisiveness in conflict'

Vietnam War:
37
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63
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103
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138
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41
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146
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149
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151
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199
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163
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4
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175
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6
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199
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200
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210
,
234

Battle of Hamburger Hill (1969),
200

Easter Offensive (1972),
139

Fall of Saigon (1975),
36
,
210

Paris Peace Agreement (1973),
210

Tet Offensive (1968),
200

Wahhabism:
87
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8

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