Only ants and people engage in large-scale warfare (though other animals conduct raids).
Large-scale warfare is not usual (because of the lack of political leadership) but raids, cannibalism, torturing of captives, and other forms of belligerence are.
Colonel Bank believed that areas where large-scale warfare was no longer probable, like the Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe, would be particularly good environments for unconventional warfare.
They were the transition group between the old Indian-fighters and the young officers who marched from their West Point classes into the first World War and whose minds were formed in the mold of large-scale warfare.
It's almost a feeling of déjà vu, and I don't know where that comes from because I don't think I've ever spent much time thinking about what large-scale warfare would be like to experience through early 21st-century media.
After the general European peace established by the Congress of Vienna that ended the Napoleonic wars, many people believed that the progress of civilization had moved well beyond the barbaric practice of large-scale warfare.
The Maya preferred raiding and ambush to large-scale warfare, using spears, arrows and wooden swords with inset obsidian blades; the Xinca of the southern coastal plain used poison on their arrows.
We investigated fitness, military rank and survival of facial phenotypes in large-scale warfare using 795 Finnish soldiers who fought in the Winter War (1939 1940).
Introduced in large scale only after World War II, using surplus warfare chemicals, pesticides are now applied at a rate of 1.1 billion pounds per year in the U.S. That's 22percentt of the world's total use.
In spite of this, World War I saw large-scale chemical warfare.
Results of these models, along with methodologies for developing large-scale littoral warfare databases, aid the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in meeting littoral warfare analysis, modeling and map generation requirements for US military organizations.
