Army commanders must navigate changing rules of war on future, complex battlefields 5 hours ago Future Army leaders will be inundated with a flood of data, but still be expected to make rapid combat decisions that are ethical and legal. Here, a soldier views a data-rich 3-D map that allows him to view the battlespace before combat operations begin. (Army) Army leaders are taking a hard look at how its new way of warfare, a fast-paced, multi-domain, wide-ranging style of combat, will bring a host of challenges to the laws of war. In an event titled, “The Future Character of War and the Law of Armed Conflict” hosted by the Army Futures Command and the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at West Point April 22, military planners, professors, lawyers and the four-star tasked with charting the Army’s future shared what they think commanders in 2035 will face. They key takeaways: Everything will be much faster;l information overload is likely; and deciphering good dat
A history of Fermanagh, from the Plantation to the present
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The US has decided to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September 2021, ending two decades of US military involvement in the country. What conclusions can be drawn from the ‘War on Terror’?
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The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the danger biological threats pose to military activity and the need for R&D resources to combat future pandemics.
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Just 30 years after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, history was repeating itself. Faced with more failing crops, landlords in Ireland again began evicting the tenant farmers who could no longer earn their keep. The issue had never really gone away: The previous famine had revealed just how few farmers actually owned land, and citizens had been fighting for tenants’ rights since the 1850s. But the latest agricultural crisis caused tension to boil over.
In 1879, farmers launched the Land War, a widespread resistance to unfair rent prices and evictions. With it came the establishment of the Land League, an organization seeking to overhaul Ireland’s feudal system of land ownership.
Reimagining Ireland: 100th volume continues to map way forward for Irish studies Rich field of analysis of series that I edit casts light on shifting dimensions of Ireland’s culture
about an hour ago Eamon Maher
The series Reimagining Ireland began life in 2008, when the first call for proposals was sent out. The goal was to commission books that would look at all aspects of Ireland’s past and present, while also having an eye to the future.
Irish studies has blossomed as a discipline over time. This flowering took root with the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of “area studies”, or area-based programmes, which emphasised that knowledge of the literature, culture, history and diversity that shape and mould various cultures and disciplines should form an essential ingredient of university courses. Hence, French studies, peace studies, women’s stud
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