-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Air Power in the Gulf War and Kosovo Conflict by MAJ Lim Tian Sing In the early 1920s, Giulio Douhet, an Italian and William Mitchell, an American were among the first theorists to realize the full implications of air power. Both theorists viewed that the use of air power would provide a significant edge in winning future wars. They shared the vision of using long-range strategic bombers to strike deep into enemy territory so as to destroy both the enemy's means and will to resist.1 The theorists had, however, di...

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... fi staples such as telepathy and time travel, which he claimed prevent a writer from using his imagination at all, limiting themselves to preconceived generic conceptions of science fiction. As he states in the essay: "Visually, of course, nothing can equal space fiction for its vast perspectives and cold beauty, as any s-f film or comic strip demonstrates, but a literary form ... trying to avoid. It appalls those who are operating on a primal aesthetic. In a traditional dystopian tale, the protagonist would have been attracted to this lost way of life; Montag or Winston Smith would not...

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... to analyze the characteristics which condition its production, rather than its idiosyncratic manifestations. Here Foucault is building on and adapting Roland Barthes's seminal work on the "death of the author" in Barthes's essay of the same name. Unfortunately this "death" has not, suggests Foucault, been a final one, for ... while for her a narrative reveals as much about the teller/reader as the tale. In this, she is paralleled closely with Hana, who seeks signs of herself both within the texts of the library and in the anonymous tabula rasa to whose deathwatch she has dedicated ... ...

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... its original architectural character and communicates its original message. Other design elements of the Aedificium also speak this same language of defense. The four towers, which remind Adso of the two Italian castles, are structural commonplaces, although instead of being heptagonal as the Aedificium's are, they are usually round. (Eco ... fanatical terms we often hear today. It reads like a history lesson, a travel essay, and a novel wrapped up into one. Hearing the Alhambra Palace described as a place of life, commerce and government instead of ruin is a treat. Being able to visuali...

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