| Instilling Aggressiveness: U.S. Advisors and Greek Combat Leadership in the Greek Civil War, 1947-1949 |
14 Dec 2012 |
174 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Harris William D; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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 | In March 1947, the United States established an economic and military assistance program to bolster the nationalist Greek government against a communist insurgency. The Greek government suffered from a collapsed economy, deep social divisions, and an inability to defeat the insurgents in battle. The Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group provided operational advice to the Greek National Army that improved the nationalists' aggressiveness, tactics, battlefield management, and logistics. The ... |
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| It's Not New: Historical U.S. Army Security Forces Assistance Efforts |
06 Dec 2012 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
James D Scrogin; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The 2010 U.S. National Security Strategy emphasized that the United States would use security sector assistance to build the capacity of at-risk nations and reduce the appeal of violent extremism in those nations. The 2010 Department of Defense Quadrennial Review responded by announcing that it would strengthen and institutionalize the U.S. military's general purpose force capabilities for security force assistance to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives. The use of general purpose ... |
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| Development of High-Order Method for Multi-Physics Problems Governed by Hyperbolic Equations |
01 Aug 2012 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
John A Ekaterinarius; FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-HELLAS HERAKLION CRETE (GREECE)
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| In this section we present the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of the three dimensional Euler and Nervier-Stokes equations for hybrid-type meshes. Without loss of generality the general finite element discretization framework is presented for hexahedral type meshes since all computations of the DG method are performed at the computational domain on the standard cubic element and transferred back to the physical domain elements (tetrahedras, prisms, pyramids, or hexahedras) using collapsed ... |
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| The 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange: Successful Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities |
08 Jun 2012 |
110 pages |
| Authors:
Jason B Faulkenberry; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This thesis is a case study of the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange. The thesis asserts that this compulsory expulsion effectively prevented the genocide of Greek Orthodox Christians living in Asia Minor. To support this argument, historical evidence leading up to the exchange is presented and examined for specific genocide indicators. Contemporary terms and viewpoints of genocide and mass atrocities are used to assess the historical facts and support the hypothesis. ... |
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| Embassy in the Lead: Lessons for Interagency Cooperation in Iraq from the 1947-1949 U.S. Mission to Greece |
17 May 2012 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
Evans A Hanson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| In December 2011, the United States removed all combat troops from Iraq, leaving only a handful of military personnel within the U.S. Embassy. This military presence -- in the form of the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq (OSC-I) -- seeks to assist Iraqi Security Forces as part of the Embassy's broader security sector reform (SSR) efforts to finish off a resilient insurgency. What the United States is attempting to do in ... |
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| Nonlinear Plasmonics in Metamaterials |
May 2012 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
George P Tsironis; FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-HELLAS HERAKLION CRETE (GREECE)
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| The target of the work is to use Transformation Optics (TO) in order to guide as well as focus plasmons. In the initial phase of the work we focused on using TO to GRaded INdex (GRIN) Lenses of Luneburg type and explored focusing and guiding. In particular we showed both analytically and numerically with home-made codes that for plane wave initial conditions (a) A sequence of Luneburg lenses can form ... |
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| Application of Two-Sided Matching to Internal Labor of the Hellenic Navy |
Mar 2012 |
115 pages |
| Authors:
Paschalis Georgakoudis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
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| The assignment process in an organization of any nature (e.g., military) plays a crucial role in the level of efficiency and effectiveness achieved by that organization. A well-designed assignment process is a handy tool for decision makers who are charged with fulfilling the organization's goals. This thesis explores the application of two-sided matching theory to the Hellenic Navy's assignment process. Three mechanisms (Priority Mechanism, Deferred Acceptance mechanism, and Top Trading ... |
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| Managing Resource Teams in the Hellenic Navy |
Dec 2011 |
93 pages |
| Authors:
Vasiliki Sartzetaki; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| In an environment of limited budgets Greek resource teams serve as a critical tool in maximizing return on investment (ROI). Finding ways to lower costs while maintaining efficiency is one of the key issues for the Hellenic Navy Logistics Command. The purpose of this report is to examine how these teams can increase their efficiency and effectiveness and ultimately achieve better financial results. The focus of this study is to ... |
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| France, Germany, Greece and the United Kingdom: An Analysis and Comparison of Budget Deficits and Defense Spending |
Sep 2011 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Friedrich SchoetteIndreyer; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
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| This thesis documents findings on the relationship of government budget deficits and defense spending for France, Germany, Greece, and the United Kingdom in detail and for NATO and OECD country collectives. The thesis topic is relevant, as many European countries are justifying their recent cuts in defense spending with high government budget deficits. The author looked at different data sources and metrics to graphically analyze the developments in government budget ... |
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| Greek National Security Concerns and the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy: Consensus or Divergence? |
Sep 2011 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Charalampos Menychtas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| One of the most important yet insufficiently researched dynamics of the European Union (EU) concerns its effectiveness in accommodating the security concerns of its members. With NATO dominating the collective security market of the old continent, the launch of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) in 1999 generated an interesting security option, and silently partitioned the NATO members of the EU into a euro-atlanticist and a euro-continentalist group, with ... |
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| Public Diplomacy: An Alternative Diplomacy in Foreign Affairs' Issues. Greek Public Diplomacy: Capabilities and Perspectives |
JUN 2011 |
119 pages |
| Authors:
Sotirios Petropoulos; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Communication with foreign citizens and the engagement of public opinion is, today, one of the vital elements of foreign policy. This is not a new phenomenon, but it has recently taken on a new importance due to a series of factors emerging from globalization, the speed of information exchange, the spreading of democracy, and the increasing participation of new, nongovernmental actors (NGOs) in decision-making processes concerning foreign policy. As a ... |
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| Role of Airpower for Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) |
Jun-2009 |
131 pages |
| Authors:
Irfan Ahmad; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis examines the role of air power in Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The direct use of air power is a kinetic application whose aim is to physically destroy the insurgents. The indirect use of air power involves support roles such as transportation, logistics, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The former requires near-perfect intelligence and precision strikes to minimize unintended damage; the latter complements information warfare and supports ground ... |
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| The US Army and Security Force Assistance: Assessing the Need for an Institutionalized Advisory Capability |
03-Mar-2009 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Taylor; William C Jr; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The U.S. Army had difficulty initiating and conducting advisory operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom due to the lack of an institutionalized advisory capability. The need to create an advisory capability after the requirement developed resulted in a 3-year delay in Iraqi Security Force development, which threatened mission success in Iraq. This experience shows that the U.S. Army should consider developing an institutionalized advisory capability. Opponents of this idea view the ... |
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| Studies in Intelligence. Volume 53, Number 1, March 2009 |
Mar-2009 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Edward B Atkeson; Bob Bergin; Michael R Foot; Roger Z George ;Hayden B Peake; Miron Varouhakis; CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON DC
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| The Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) was founded in 1974 in response to Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger's desire to create within CIA an organization that could think through the functions of intelligence and bring the best intellects available to bear on intelligence problems. The center, comprising professional historians and experienced practitioners, attempts to document lessons learned from past activities, to explore the needs and expectations of ... |
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| Defense Expenditure and Economic Growth: Empirical Study on Case of Turkey |
01-Jun-2008 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Ertugrul Tekeoglu; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis set out to find the relationship, if any, between defense spending and economic growth for Turkey, and to discuss the policy implications of the empirical results. Since Turkey has one of the largest defense budgets within the Middle East and also NATO, this question has important implications for Turkey's future economic well-being and political stability. Taking into account the difficulties present in previous military expenditure studies, an econometric ... |
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| Turkey's Role in NATO-European Union Cooperation |
01-Jun-2008 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Saltuk B Arkali; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis analyzes the significant role of Turkey in cooperation between NATO and the European Union (EU). It first examines Turkish-EU relations during the period 1991-1999, when the EU relied on the Western European Union (WEU) as its instrument for security and defense matters. The years 1995-1999 were especially fruitful, because Turkey was an associate member of the WEU and participated fully in relevant EU decision making. After the emergence ... |
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| The NATO Summit at Bucharest, 2008 |
05 MAY 2008 |
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| Authors:
Paul Gallis; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | NATO held a summit in Bucharest, Romania, April 2-4, 2008. A principal theme of the summit was to be the clarification of NATO's mission, but no definable progress was made. The allies face an enduring challenge in their effort to stabilize Afghanistan. A "Strategic Vision" paper on Afghanistan clarified several issues but did not lead to a greater sharing of the combat burden among NATO governments. The allies decided to ... |
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| Enlargement Issues at NATO's Bucharest Summit |
12 MAR 2008 |
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| Authors:
Paul Gallis; Paul Belkin; Carl Ek; Julie Kim; Jim Nichol; Steven Woehrel; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| NATO will hold a summit in Bucharest on April 2-4, 2008, and a principal issue will be the consideration of the candidacies for membership of Albania, Croatia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM, or the Republic of Macedonia). These candidate states are small, with correspondingly small militaries, and their inclusion in the alliance cannot be considered strategic in a military sense. However, it is possible that they could ... |
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| A History of President Putin's Campaign to Re-Nationalize Industry and the Implications for Russian Reform and Foreign Policy |
27-Jan-2008 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
Richard J Anderson; FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY MEDFORD MA
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| During Vladimir Putin's two terms as President of the Russian Federation, a major campaign has been underway to re-nationalize many of Russia's strategic industries -- labeled as such by the administration for their importance to the security of the nation. The scale of this de-privatization has been quite large. This research provides evidence that almost half of Russian industrial output is in the hands of corporations that are under state ... |
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| The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey |
2008 |
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| Authors:
Angel Rabasa; F. S. Larrabee; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| As a Muslim-majority country that is also a secular democratic state, a member of NATO, and a long-standing U.S. ally, Turkey is pivotal to U.S. strategy to shape the Middle Eastern security environment. Turkey also is a key test case for the role of Islam in politics and its influence on external policy. Until recently, Islamic parties in Turkey were largely a fringe movement. However, the success of the Justice ... |
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| Cyprus: Status of U.N. Negotiations and Related Issues |
20 JUL 2007 |
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| Authors:
Carol Migdalovitz; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| Cyprus has been divided since 1974. Greek Cypriots, 76% of the population, live in the southern two-thirds of the island. Turkish Cypriots, 19% of the populace, live in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), recognized only by Turkey, with 36,000 Turkish troops providing security. United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces maintain a buffer zone between the two. Since the late 1970s, the UN, with U.S. support, has promoted negotiations aimed ... |
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| Groundhog Day: Expectation Management by Examining Warfare in the Early Twentieth Century Balkans |
15 JUN 2007 |
115 pages |
| Authors:
John R. Athey; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Modern military leaders require solid information, with broad background knowledge, to operate in some of the world's most complex cultures. In the Balkan Peninsula, the overlapping demands of religion, ethnic loyalties, and selfish power-politics are ongoing challenges to any military operation in the region. History leading up to the Twentieth century contained numerous conflicts between nations on the peninsula and the first 50 years of the Twentieth century contained four ... |
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| The 1974 Crisis Over Cyprus: Foreign Will or Ethnic Conflict |
JUN 2007 |
125 pages |
| Authors:
Ioannis Vlachos; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis presents a study of the crisis over Cyprus that lasted many years and concluded with the bloody events of the summer of 1974. The intervention of the military dictatorship from Greece and the subsequent Turkish invasion may have been the culmination of this crisis, but this thesis will show, contrarily to common perceptions, the causes of the crisis were not primarily a function of ethnic hatred. This thesis ... |
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| Exploring Naval Tactics with UAVs in an Island Complex Using Agent-Based Simulation |
JUN 2007 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Vasileios Lalis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The benefits of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) at sea are undisputed. The amount and speed of the incoming information from a UAV, combined with its maneuverability and time-on-task capability, are assets to any navy. For the Greek Navy, the main local operation area is the Aegean and Ionian Sea. As Greece lies between three continents (Europe, Asia, Africa), there is a great deal of sea traffic and potential illegal activities, ... |
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| The Kantian Peace and Greek-Turkish Relations |
JUN 2007 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Emmanouil Peteinarakis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis applies the principles of Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace to a study of the historical relations between Greece and Turkey. According to Kant, three principal elements democracy; economic interdependence; and international organizations and international law interact to promote peaceful relations among states. This thesis analyzes these three elements in respect to the relationship between Greece and Turkey throughout history. The thesis concludes that Kant's three elements have been influential ... |
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| The European Server for Ionospheric Specification and Forecasting: Final Results from DIAS Project |
JUN 2006 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
A. Belehaki; L. Cander; B. Zolesi; J. Bremer; C. Juren; I. Stanislawska; D. Dialetis; M. Hatzopoulos; NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS (GREECE) IONOSPHERIC INST
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| The main objective of DIAS (European Digital Upper Atmosphere Server) project is to develop a pan-European digital data collection on the state of ionospheric part of the upper atmosphere, based on real-time information and historical data collections provided by most operating ionospheric stations in Europe (Athens, Rome, Ebre, Juliusruh, Chilton, Pruhonice, Lycksele and Warsaw). Based on the raw data collection, DIAS system develops and distributes several products required by various ... |
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| Turkey's Crucial Contributions to the War Against Terrorism |
09 MAR 2006 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Mehmet Varinli; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The first wave of modern political terrorism hit Turkey in 1925 and continued intermittently until 1971. The second stage of terrorism occurred between the years of 1975 and 1980. In 1979 -- nearly at the end of the Cold War -- the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) was founded. Turkey has been the main target of PKK-related terrorism. Although the Turkish Armed Forces have succeeded in fighting terrorism and preserving the ... |
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| Comparison of the Invasion of Crete and the Proposed Invasion in Malta |
2006 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen L. Kavanaugh; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| In 1941, after the conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece, senior German military leaders were considering two airborne operations, one for the invasion of Crete and the other for the invasion of Malta. The invasion of Crete was executed from 20 May to 1 June 1941 with heavy German losses. The invasion of Malta never took place even though the senior military leaders in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) recommended invading ... |
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| Characterization of the Environment During SAX04: Preliminary Results |
JUL 2005 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Allen H. Reed; Bernard P. Boudreau; Chris Algar; Yoko Furukawa; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS SEAFLOOR SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
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| The Sediment Acoustic Experiment (SAXO4) was conducted on a sandy sediment 1- km offshore of Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, September-November, 2904. The objectives of SAXO4 were to provide a fundamental understanding of high frequency acoustic-bottom interactions sufficient to predict acoustic scattering from the seafloor, penetration of acoustic energy into the seafloor, and propagation of acoustic energy within the seafloor. For these acoustic topics a thorough characterization of seafloor properties is ... |
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| Assessed Total and Partial Ionization Cross Sections for CF4, C2F6, C3F8, CHF3, CF3I, c-C4F8, Cl2, CCl2F2, BCl3, SF6, and Fragments of CF4 and SF6 |
08 JUN 2005 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Loucas G. Christophorou; James K. Olthoff; NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ATHENS (GREECE)
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| The authors recently completed an updated review, synthesis, assessment, and discussion of low-energy electron interactions with the plasma processing gases CF4, C2F6, C3F8, CHF3, CF3I, c-C4F8, Cl2, CCl2F2, BCl3, and SF6. This work, along with fundamental knowledge on electron-molecule collision processes, the definition of the various electron collision cross-sections and rate coefficients, and the experimental and theoretical methods used for their determination have been described in Christophorou and Olthoff. It ... |
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| Asymptotic Optimality of the Round--Robin Policy in Multipath Routing with Resequencing |
2005 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Konstantinos P. Tsoukatos; Armand M. Makowski; UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY VOLOS (GREECE)
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| We consider a model of a multipath routing system, where arriving customers are routed to a set of identical, parallel, single server queues, according to balancing policies operating without state information. After completion of service. customers are required to leave the system in their order of arrival, thus incurring an additional resequencing delay. We are interested in minimizing the end-to-end delay (including time at the resequencing buffer) experienced by arriving ... |
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| Political Impact of Strategic Basing Decisions |
DEC 2004 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Ryan J. Fayrweather; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Relationships between the United States and its worldwide network of allies has, since the inception of NATO, greatly revolved around the United States' ability and desire to permanently station troops oversees. Since 1941, the United States has entered into these basing agreements for a variety of strategic and sometimes political reasons. From NATO's inception, and as the cornerstone of its defensive structure, the United States has combined the idea of ... |
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| U.S.-Turkish Relations: The Road to Improving a Troubled Strategic Partnership |
19 MAR 2004 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick F. Gillis; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the strong bilateral relationship that the United States and Turkey enjoyed during the Cold War, which was based on security against the Soviet threat, has changed. Domestic issues within Turkey, such as the economic crisis in 2001, the Kurdish issue in Southeast Turkey, and the advancement of democratization as well as international issues such as Turkey's role in both Gulf Wars, Turkey's drive ... |
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| CADRE Quick-Look: Perspective: Airpower in Counterinsurgency Operations |
2004 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony C. Cain; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL COLL OF AEROSPACE DOCTRINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
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| Mythology from the U.S. experience in the Vietnam War holds that air power and the U.S. military do not perform well against insurgencies. History shows, however, that when airmen apply air power in the right way and in the right context, it can contribute significantly to achieving counterinsurgency campaign objectives. Moreover, armed with an understanding of how U.S. air power has performed effectively in these types of wars in the ... |
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| Greek Fire: Classical Visions of Sex and Violence in Contemporary Irish Literature |
2004 |
90 pages |
| Authors:
Steven W. McCarty; SOUTH CAROLINA UNIV COLUMBIA DEPT OF ENGLISH
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| The literatures of the classical world have played an important part in the shaping of English literature; the impact upon Irish culture has been no less profound. In contemporary Irish poetry and drama, the dominant strain found is that writers are using the classics as a lens through which to view the oppressive and taboo themes of violence and sex in modern life. The result is often a deliberate inversion ... |
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| Amphibious and Special Operations in the Aegean Sea 1943-1945. Operational Effectiveness and Strategic Implications |
DEC 2003 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Panagiotis Gaartzonikas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Aegean Sea during the Second World War drew the attention of both the Allies and the Axis. However, although historians have chronicled the fall of Greece and Crete in the spring of 1941, little attention has been given to the war in the Aegean after 1941. From the early days of the Mediterranean war, Churchill especially believed that the elimination of the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese islands, would ... |
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| Manpower Requirements Database for the Greek Navy |
SEP 2003 |
341 pages |
| Authors:
Kyriakos N. Sergis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Greek Navy is trying to create a Web-enabled Data Base system, which will enhance and facilitate the process of assigning duties (jobs) to its officers. This study provides a prototype of implementing the job-to-officers assignment process by creating a manpower Data Base accessed via the Internet. This prototype is based on the 3-tier architecture, having both the Web and Data Base design and implementation. Behind the scenes, is a ... |
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| Radar Cross Section of a Perfectly Conducting, Flat, Polygonal Plate Over a Dielectric, Lossy Half Space: A Closed Form, Physical Optics Expression |
11 JUN 2003 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Hristos T. Anastassiu; NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIV ATHENS (GREECE) INST OF COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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| The Physical Optics approximation is employed in the derivation of a closed form expression for the Radar Cross Section (RCS) of a flat, polygonal, perfectly conducting (PEC) plate, located over a dielectric, possibly lossy half space. The well-known "four-path model" is invoked in a first order approximation of the half space contribution to the scattering mechanisms. Numerical results are successfully compared to a reference, Moment Method solution. The analytical expressions ... |
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| A Common European Security and Defense Policy in the European Union: Greek Policy and Strategy on ESDP |
JUN 2003 |
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| Authors:
Miltiadis Fakitsas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Since 1998, the European Union (EU) has begun to develop a Common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), which provides a stronger role in the security and defense areas in order to become a more important actor in these fields, Since that time, the member states of the European Union have been pursuing their capabilities to conduct conflict prevention and crisis management operations, with no intention of overcoming NATO's role ... |
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| The Rise and the Fall of Terrorist Organizations in Post-Dictatorial Greece: The Role and the Lessons for the Intelligence Services |
JUN 2003 |
71 pages |
| Authors:
Miltiadis Fakitsas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Greek government unsuccessfully battled leftist terrorist groups from 1975 to 2002, The two most notorious terrorist organizations during this period were the "November 17" group and another group called, "Revolutionary People's Struggle," In 1975, these organizations began a violent campaign against the United States, NATO personnel, Turkish diplomats, and member of the Greek political and business elite, The government's failure to curtail these groups resulted from the enormous belief ... |
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| Evaluation of an On-Board Driver Support System - the IN-ARTE Project |
14 MAY 2003 |
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| Authors:
F. Tango; E. Bekiaris; TRANSPORT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SA THESSALONIKI (GREECE)
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| IN-ARTE is a European Project whose main objective is to develop a system that supports the driver while driving on motorways extra-urban and rural roads. In this paper the evaluation tests performed in this project are presented: system functionality system impact on the user's driving behaviour and effect on the road safety in general (short-time effects), and user's acceptance and willingness to pay. Results show that an IN-ARTE system has ... |
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| An Experimental Study of the Flow Around an Axisymmetric Body at High Angles of Attack |
MAR 2003 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
D. K. Pantelatos; D. S. Mathioulakis; NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIV ATHENS (GREECE) DEPT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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| The investigation of the flow field around an axisymmetric body inclined at an angle with respect to the oncoming free stream constitutes a challenging task due to the complex nature of the flow. However, understanding the as yet unanswered question as to what causes flow asymmetries over a symmetric body at high angles of attack would improve the maneuverability of such bodies. In the present work, the flow field about ... |
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| Optimizing Diagnostic Effectiveness of Mixed Turbofans by Means of Adaptive Modelling and Choice of Appropriate Monitoring Parameters |
FEB 2003 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
P. Kaboukos; P. Oikonomou; A. Stamatis; K. Mathioudakis; NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIV ATHENS (GREECE) LAB OF THERMAL TURBOMACHINES
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| Methods for the optimal selection of measurements and health parameters used for diagnostic purposes in aircraft gas turbine engines are presented. Principles of aerothermodynamic diagnostic techniques are first briefly reviewed. The problem of optimal selection of measurements and health parameters is examined from two different standpoints. (a) How to select out of all available measurements the minimum set that will be capable to provide sufficient information to assess engine health ... |
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| Application of Multiple Handle Gas Path Analysis on a Twill Spool Turbofan Engine |
FEB 2003 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Eftychios Kleinakis; Petros Kotsiopoulos; Pericles Pilidis; HELLENIC AIR FORCE TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTER ATHENS (GREECE)
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| In this paper the development of multiple handle gas path analysis, an analytical approach that has two advantages over linear gas path analysis is described. Firstly, it allows all instruments to he used for diagnostics purposes, without having to use one to determine the baseline. The other advantage is that diagnostics can be cross checked against one another to allow greater faith in the result. A conclusion that can be ... |
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| Algorithms for Multitarget Multisensor Tracking |
20 JAN 2003 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Leonidas S. Pitsoulis; TECHNICAL UNIV OF CRETE CHANIA (GREECE)
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| This report results from a contract tasking Technical University of Crete as follows: I. Construction of a set of problem instances of multidimensional assignment problems in the context of target tracking. These will be used as benchmark problems. They will be constructed so that their optimal solution will be known, and they will vary in size and dimension. Furthermore they will be nontrivial to solve, since they will be used ... |
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| Educating Foreign Officers |
01-Jan-2003 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas M Gibler; Tomislav Z Ruby; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Professional military education (PME) acts as a stabilizing factor that provides officers from many nations with the opportunity for study and exposure to the democratic values while attending senior- and intermediate-level institutions in America. Half a million foreign officers have attended programs in the United States -- 9,000 from over 100 countries in 2000 -- and of that number, some 200 annually attend year-long courses with their American counterparts at ... |
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| SESCAT Investigations of 50 MHz Coherent Backscatter Phenomena in midlatitude E-region Ionosphere |
06 DEC 2002 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Christos Haldoupis; CRETE UNIV (GREECE)
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| This report results from a contract tasking University of Crete as follows: The contractor will investigate the ionosphere's ability to reflect radio waves (backscatter) using the Sporadic E SCATter experiment (SESCAT). SESCAT is an ionospheric radio Doppler system on the island of Crete, Greece (a fixed, ground-based facility). The contractor will evaluate bulk motions and spatial structuring within unstable sporadic E layers. The objective of this research is to experimentally ... |
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| The Kosovo Conflict: Emerging Relationships and Implications for Greece |
JUN 2002 |
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| Authors:
Ioannis Pattas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis examines the 1999 Kosovo conflict and subsequent NATO military intervention including implications for Greece. Additional areas of study include: a historical and social background of the Balkans; a revival of nationalist pursuits; and emerging regional stakeholder relationships. The methodology included literature review, stakeholder analysis, and results of a researcher-developed questionnaire administered to 35 Greek officers. Survey results (p<= .05) indicated that the Kosovo conflict likely: disturbed many Greek ... |
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| Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Southern Balkans |
JUN 2002 |
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| Authors:
Christos Pavloudis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The main objective of this thesis is to investigate nationalism as the main source of instability and ethnic conflict in the sub-region of Southern Balkans -Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). It starts with a brief history of the Balkan Peninsula and the birth of nationalism in the region during the 19th century with the Wars for Independence from the Ottoman Empire. Then, it discusses the ... |
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| Strategic and Operational Mobility: The Foundation for the Success of the United States in Future War |
16-May-2002 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
James A Vohr; MARINE CORPS UNIV QUANTICO VA SCHOOL OF ADVANCED WARFIGHTING
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| If the United States is to continue to maintain its status as the most powerful nation on earth, strategic and operational mobility, the capability to project credible military forces abroad, must become a foremost priority in the design of its 21st century military forces. There are many parallels to be drawn between the current and future position of the United States and the historic positions of England during the 19th ... |
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