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My Fifth Generation Journey: Second Edition, 2025
My Fifth Generation Journey: Second Edition, 2025
My Fifth Generation Journey: Second Edition, 2025
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This book provides a rich and complex picture of Portugal through various lenses.The book highlights the long shadow of the Salazar regime, the enduring legacy of its history and culture, the transformative impact of the Lisbon earthquake and its reconstruction, the struggles and ultimate end of its colonial empire, and the evolving perspectives on its past as seen through the eyes of historian Kenneth Maxwell.The book underscores the tensions between tradition and modernity, authoritarianism and the desire for change, and national pride and the challenges of a globalized world.
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The paradigm shift in maritime operations involves moving away from concentrating power in capital ships to distributing capabilities across a network of assets.
Distributed Maritime Effects (DME) are the effects created by this distributed force, often independent of or supplemental to traditional capital ship operations which are increasingly focused on distributed maritime operations.
The book highlights the move from traditional capital ship-centric warfare to a distributed, kill web-enabled force. It highlights the importance of integrating autonomous systems and modular capabilities for enhanced combat effectiveness.
Distributed maritime effects will increasingly be created by the use of non-capital ship maritime assets. Air and sea autonomous systems coupled with manned air will generate a core combined capability to deliver the kinds of combat clusters which can create distributed maritime effects supplemental to or independent of the operation of capital ships themselves.
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