Exploring Military History and Technology Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data.

the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran.

the test for enrollment at Germany's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures.

up to 2 million people may be living in Russian closed cities, which are off-limits to foreigners because they have sensitive military and nuclear industry.

in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures.

growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010.

Program 437 was a United States military antisatellite program using nuclear weapons delivered by Thor ballistic missiles as the primary mechanism of defeating enemy satellites.

Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders.

Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer who played a key military role in 17th century Thailand.

Ensign O'Toole, a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones, was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans, which was thereafter destroyed following a collision.

military sociology, one of the branches of sociology, looks at issues such as gender, minorities and power in the military.

Exploring Military History and Technology

1 There were no advances in military technology until, from the mechanical arm action of a slinger, the Greeks, ________, Romans, Persians, Chinese, etc development the siege engines.

2 For this purpose some of the command and other military, and often civilian personnel participate in identification of these threats, which is at once an organisation, a system and a process collectively called ________ (MI).

3 This continued in the 20th century, with publications like Punch in the ________ and Le Père Duchesne in France, poking fun at the military establishment.

4 [1] The Romans were dedicated to military matters, leaving to posterity many treatises and writings as well as a large number of lavishly carved ________ and columns.

5 The 1963 English stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! provided a satirical take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed by ________ in 1969.

6 Somewhat earlier in medieval China, ________ had been invented, and was increasingly used by the military in combat.

7 Invariably, although the policy may be created by policy makers or Policy analyst, its implementation requires specific ________ knowledge of how military functions and how it fulfils roles.

8 Military actions are sometimes argued to be justified by furthering a humanitarian cause such as ________ operations or in defence of refugees.

9 Both the Soviet Union and ________ excelled in producing heroic images, placing their soldiers in a semi-mythical context.

10 The "show" of military force has been a term that referred as much to military force projection, as to the units such as ________ or gunboats deployed in a particular theatre, or as an aggregate of such forces.

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