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What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today.

As then US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated in characteristic fashion, some security issues are easily researched and well understood, while others pose greater problems. Failure to recognize these \"known knowns\" and \"known unknowns\", or to acknowledge information gaps, can lead to misconceptions and errors of judgement. There are also mysteries — the \"unknown unknowns\". The study of Myanmar's armed forces (or Tatmadaw) is a case in point, yet anyone attempting to study them faces problems at three levels. At the first are the traps lying in wait for all who engage in such intellectual exercises, and strive for precision, balance and objectivity. At the second level are the challenges inherent in the study of any country's military capabilities. At the third level are the difficulties encountered by anyone studying modern Myanmar. Due mainly to the lack of reliable data, however, an accurate, detailed and nuanced assessment of Myanmar's military capabilities is currently impossible. It is difficult even to make judgements about its order of battle and defence expenditure, let alone the Tatmadaw's combat proficiency. Yet these kinds of issues are critical to an understanding of Myanmar's security.

LYNDON JOHNSON HAD a question for senior intelligence officials in May 1964. A longtime believer in the domino theory, Johnson feared that friendly states would fall to communism in quick succession if the United States failed to support them. As vice president in 1961, he had specifically warned that communist advances in Asia could make ʺthe vast Pacific . . . a Red Sea.ʺ¹ Now President Johnson was on the verge of escalating the war in Vietnam, and he wanted to make sure the theory was valid. The director of central intelligence passed the question to the Board of National

This paper based on a practice adopted for improvement in the characteristic of frequency deviation of distributed generation-system (DGS) succeeding load and wind trepidation. DGS has very large order transfer function associated with mathematical calculation of frequency-power deviation. So, Reduced order modeling (ROM) of original DGS by means of Logarithmic pole approximation, Markov parameters, and time moments (LPC) help to effective analysis DGS. Three novel optimization algorithms, such as Battle Royal optimization (BRO), Chaotic atomic search optimization (CASO), and grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) taken for the first time to obtain optimum parameters associated with PID controller to reach decent dynamic-stability of the considered DGS. The obtained findings show that the suggested control technique algorithms with ROM are able to produce respectable outcomes and significantly increase the stability margin of DGS.

We report experimental evidence showing a positive effect of redistribution on economic efficiency via the self-enforcement of property rights, and identify which status groups benefit more and which less. We model an economy in which wealth is produced if players voluntarily comply with the—efficient but inequitable—prevailing social order. We vary exogenously whether redistribution is feasible, and how it is organized. We find that redistribution benefits all status groups as property disputes recede. It is most effective when transfers are not discretionary but instead imposed by some exogenous administration. In the absence of coercive means to enforce property rights, it is the higher status groups, not the lower status groups, who benefit from redistribution being compulsory rather than voluntary.

This study explores how Black student leaders (BSLs) at public historically white institutions (HWIs) in Florida and Georgia navigate racial battle fatigue (RBF) in the context of anti-DEI legislation. Amid rising political hostility toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, this research examines the lived experiences of 11 BSLs as they respond to racialized campus climates that are increasingly ambiguous and unsupportive. Using a critical qualitative approach, data were collected through two in-depth interviews per participant and analyzed using inductive and deductive coding. Four major findings emerged: (1) BSLs experience heightened psychological, physiological, and emotional forms if stress linked to their identity and leadership roles; (2) anti-DEI policies contribute to institutional erasure and confusion; (3) students express emotional withdrawal, hypervigilance, and disillusionment with performative leadership; (4) students employ culturally grounded coping strategies centered on self-care, spirituality, and community. This study underscores that BSLs are both empowered and burdened by their leadership, especially under politically restrictive conditions. The findings call for student affairs educators to prioritize engagement and belonging and offer identity-affirming support. Further, scholars with academic freedom are urged to continue documenting racialized student experiences. These insights are critical to protecting Black student leadership and equity-centered educational transformation.

[...]the ignorance expressed by Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) accurately reflects the murky histories of the majority of wartime cruisers deployed by the U.S. Navy during the Second World War2. [...]the story of the Indianapolis occupies an uncomfortable place in relation to a general taboo in Hollywood: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima6. Subsequently, the dissolution of Communism throughout Eastern Europe (which peaked upon the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991) provided Bush with the rhetorical window of opportunity to construct his Churchillian vision of a new post-Cold War world in which 'the principles of justice and fair play protect the weak against the strong'8, evidenced both in the 1989 Panamanian intervention (\"Operation Just Cause\") to dispose the de facto ruler General Manuel Noriega and leading coalition forces into the Gulf War in 1990 following Iraq's invasion and annexation of neighbouring Kuwait9. [...]Mission of the Shark was produced and released amidst a distinctly more amicable period of diplomatic relations between Washington and Tokyo, mirroring the Bush administration's desire to ensure the \"Japan Bashing\"15 trade tensions of the 1980s did not spill over into issues of national security and impinge upon both nations ability to collaborate together in confronting the various challenges posed to them by this new-post Cold War world.