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A Study on the Influence of the Balkan Conflict in the Outbreak of World War I: Focusing on Perspective of Patron-Client Relationship between states (제1차 세계대전 발발에서 발칸분쟁의 영향에 관한 연구 :국가 간 후견-피후견 관계의 관점을 중심으로)

  • Lee Young Soo;Park Sang Nam
    • Analyses & Alternatives
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.83-114
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    • 2023
  • Previous studies on international politics dealing with World War I mainly pointed to the balance of power and alliance issues as the causes of war. This view saw the assassination of Sarajevo, the direct cause of the war, as a simple opportunity. As a result, these studies can explain 'what made war inevitable' but still need to fully explain 'why the war started in the Balkans and how it spread throughout Europe.' To compensate for the limitations of these preceding studies, this study aim to find the origin of World War 1 in the context of the Balkan, which began with the conflict between Germany-Austria and Russia-Serbia. To this end, this study analyzed the historical background of the Balkan crisis and the development of the crisis through the concept of Shoemaker and Spanier's patron-client relationship between states and crisis manipulation. As a result, it confirmed that competition between Russia and Germany and crisis manipulation attempts by their client states did not necessarily lead to war. But crisis manipulation has instilled a competitive mindset in patron states that will potentially and cumulatively work. Since then, unexpected crises have occurred, and rival patrons have suspected that their opponents are planning grand strategic conspiracies and challenges. As a result, they have become vulnerable to crisis manipulation by the clients. This situation was the cause of the outbreak of World War I in the context of the Balkans' patron-client relationship.

Airpower in the Transition Era (전환기의 항공력의 역할)

  • Gwon Jae-Sang
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 1991
  • If one were to say that war is political in its nature, then war could be one of the several ways of achieving political goals. Thus, the aspect of wars will, in certainty, be altered by the changes in political environment. Wars in the past broke out mainly due to ideological differences that ran to extremes and were of high intensity. However, wars today show such restraints as controlling them beforehand or during the war in anticipation of the post-war situation. The trend of ideas to actualize such wars in the effective operation of airpower is on the rise. Airpower normally possesses speed and operative flexibility as well as capability of destruction, so it is possible to destroy the politically declared targets clearly. Previous airpower was merely employed as means of helping to vertically detouring the spatial obstacle that the ground forces encountered. Over the years, due to the speedy improvement of aviation technology and of ideas concerning wars in space, more advanced application has been developed. but they also were nothing more than an auxiliary role to facilotate the ground forces, that needed a longer effective range of firepower and did not become forces with the right of self-determination, that is, the fact of decisive war that makes its outcome. However, under transitional strategic environment like that of the present, Airpower possesses not only the capability to operate as a decisive means of war but also as theories to support it. The advancement in air technology has enabled supremacy over targets in depth, and the development of electronic technology has empowered the improvement of degree of destruction but also triumphant war by means of an overwhelming supremacy in a relatively short period. Thus, the method of systematic destruction that accomplishes the stated goals while rejecting the damage of accumulative destruction has been realized. The progress of such a concept has also proved that the counter-force strategy that has been developed in nuclear strategy is useful in conventional warfare as well. Therefore, it can be said that the under today's strategic environment airpower is an outstanding means of military strategy that can deeply affect to achieve the national objectives.

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A Study on the Efficient Information Security Methodology under a Korea War-Game Exercise System (워게임 연습체계에서의 효율적 정보보호 방안 연구)

  • 이강택;이동희;김귀남
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Assurance Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2004
  • There is increasing tension in the Korean Peninsula from the US' putting the NK's nuclear issue along the line of war in Iraq. However, there is worsening in ROK's field exercise condition from decresing defense financial supports, being difficlut to obtain enough space for volumable exercises, and securities and circumstances issues. With acknowleging those problems, CPX(Command Post Exercise), namely war game exercise which is more economical and scientific exercise has earned its attention as the best alternative measure of field exercise war game exercise has already been applyied to independent, joint, and combined exercises. However, the current war game system contains lots of problems in terms of security. Defense network uses dedicated line isolated with internet and secure data through network level encoding. It is vulerable to get attack during war game exercise or from credited network. System security is also subject to reinforced. This research is performed focusing on network and system level securities, and through it, the author will show the effective and optimized security solution for war game system.

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The Spatial Diffusion of War: The Case of World War I (전쟁의 공간적 확산에 관한 연구: 제1차 세계대전을 사례로)

  • Chi, Sang-Hyun;Flint, Colin;Diehl, Paul;Vasquez, John;Scheffran, Jurgen;Radil, Steven M.;Rider, Toby J.
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.57-76
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    • 2014
  • Conventional treatments of war diffusion focus extensively on dyadic relationships, whose impact is thought to be immutable over the course of the conf lict. This study indicates that such conceptions are at best incomplete, and more likely misleading to explain the spatial diffusion of wars. Using social network analysis, we examine war joining behavior during World War I. By employing social network analysis, we attempted to overcome the dichotomous understanding of geography as space and network in the discipline of conflict studies. Empirically, networked structural elements of state relationships (e.g., rivalry, alliances) have explanatory and predictive value that must be included alongside dyadic considerations in analyzing war joining behavior. In addition, our analysis demonstrates that the diffusion of conflict involves different driving forces over time.

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A Study for the Role Enhancement of Military Geography as an Applied Geography (응용지리학으로서의 군사지리학 역할 제고에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Sung-Han;Kim, Man Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.105-122
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    • 2015
  • Military geography has been recognized a part of applied geography appeared in 1960s by the viewpoint applying geographical science technology and knowledge for war. But the contribution for war accompanying violence caused negative recognition in moral viewpoint and led stagnation of military geography's study. Therefore this paper has researched a method improving the role of military geography as a part of applied geography and considered the essential meaning of the military geography's role in the relationship between war and military sciences. Based on this consideration, this paper proposed a research direction necessary for the role contributing human development beyond the viewpoint focusing contribution for war. The result of this study confirmed the characters of the military geography's elements have two attributes contributing for war victory or improving human life quality. Military geography has laid emphasis for usability to war contribution until now and caused unsatisfactoriness of morality. But military geography can complement this unsatisfactoriness by the extension of the role contributing human life quality. This study could examine the possibility doing the role contributing for both war and peace as a intact science.

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A Scientific Consideration of Military Thought (군사사상의 학문적 고찰)

  • Jin, Seok-Yong
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.7
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2009
  • This article deals with military thought in general. First I tried to distinguish 'thought' from 'theory', 'philosophy', and 'principle'. Thought means the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a particular subject, e.g. military affairs in the present discussion. Theory means a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas which are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion or explanation. Philosophy means the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of reality and existence, the use and limits of knowledge. Principle means a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens or works. Chapter 3 summarized the characteristics of military thoughts into five points', (i) it is closely related with concrete experiences of a nation; (ii) it includes philosophical and logical arguments; (iii) it relies heavily on the political thought of a nation; (iv) it includes necessarily value-judgments; (v) it contains visions of a nation which are not only descriptions or explanations of military affairs, but also evaluations and advocacies. Chapter 4 considers the relation of international political thoughts to military thought. Throughout the history of the modem states system there have been three competing traditions of thought: the Hobbesian or realist tradition, which views international politics as a state of war; the Kantian or universalist tradition, which sees at work in international politics a potential community of mankind; and the Grotian or internationalist tradition, which views international politics as taking place within an international society. Chapter 5 considers the law of war, which is a body of law concerning acceptable justifications to engage in war (jus ad bellum) and the limits to acceptable wartime conduct (jus in bello). Among other issues, modem laws of war address declarations of war, acceptance of surrender and the treatment of prisoners of war, military necessity along with distinction and proportionality, and the prohibition of certain weapons that may cause unnecessary suffering.

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Authors Under the Service of the Army in the Korean War (한국전쟁기 육군종군작가단의 작품 활동)

  • 신영덕
    • Lingua Humanitatis
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.197-217
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    • 2001
  • The literary products of Authors Under the Service of the Army during the Korean War have been neglected on the whole because of the perception that they were little more than war propaganda. The majority of the works (poetry, serial novels, and short stories) Published by these authors in various Army publications such as Junsunmunhak (Literature of the War Front) and Comet, as well as in regular literary periodicals, supports this perception. Most of these works convey simplistic emotions and stereotypes that project untroubled patriotism and strongly antipathetic sentiments against to the Communist North. The appointed leader of this group, Dock-Kyun Choi regarded the pen as another form of weapon to be used against the Communists in the North, and did not shy away from describing in graphic details the atrocities committed by his enemies. But what truly deserves our attention is the fact that many of the same authors who wrote highly propagandistic works also wrote works that can only be described as antiwar. In these works are depicted as faithfully as possible the human sufferings of the war. These works resist and even question the very ideologies that have brought about the conflict, focusing instead on the dark side of the war -the horrifying deaths, the separation of families, and the displacement of people from their homes, How we are to interpret this ambivalence in many of these authors is a task that remains to be carried out. We must approach these works with more seriousness and begin by comparing them with similar products from authors under the service of the Navy and the Air Force during the Korean War.

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American Women's Adoption of Pants and the Changing Definition of Femininity during World War II

  • Lee, Yhe-Young;Farrell-Beck, Jane
    • International Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2010
  • Articles from The New York Times and magazines including Consumer Digest, Journal of Home Economics, Scholastic, Time and Woman's Home Companion were analyzed in this study and focused on the following research questions: How did the social situation influence American women's adoption of pants during World War II? How were the social opinions of women's adoption of pants? How did American women's adoption of pants and the social opinions on women's pants represent the process of change in the definition of femininity during World War II? Women were encouraged to wear pants in work places because many women had to work in defense industries and farms. Women had to wear pants during the winter to keep warm in order to conserve oil, rubber, and other materials. In addition, wearing men's clothes became a fashion trend among college women during this period. However, practicality was often not the primary thing alone to consider in women's fashion. Femininity was still important in women's fashion. There were criticisms over the women's adoption of pants. Regulations against pants were imposed on women, while there were women who wanted to dress like ladies even at defense industries. An abrupt change in women's gender roles and the increased adoption of trousers aroused social ambivalence about the traditional definition of femininity. Even though many women returned to their homes after the war, the social demand of practicality in women's day-time clothes during the war offered women the experience of comfort and practicality in pants. These experiences contributed to paving the way for more women to adopt pants and helped establishing a new definition of femininity after the war.

Research on the War Records of Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, during the Korean War: With a Focus on the Military Records of the Korean Army during the 6.25 War (한국전쟁기 경남 함양군 전쟁 기록 연구 : 육군의 6·25 전쟁 군사기록물을 중심으로)

  • Sunyoung Byun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.137-163
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    • 2023
  • In 2020, the digitization of the previously partially researched "6.25 War military records" was completed and transitioned to public access, allowing anyone to utilize the digitized materials. Following concerns regarding the effective utilization of these records and the creation of historical value, this study analyzed issues found in the specific region of Hamyang in Gyeongsangnam-do based on the management status and utilization information of the National Archives of Korea, War Memorial of Korea, and Army Records and Information Management System that primarily managed the records. Furthermore, it proposes developing the metadata elements to address the issues, constructing a digital archive, enhancing the interconnectedness of war records, providing educational and exhibition services, and offering various forms of research materials.

The causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths during the Korean War

  • Kun Hwang;Hun Kim;Chan Yong Park
    • Journal of Trauma and Injury
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.214-219
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: The aim of this study is to present the causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths at hospital of Korean soldiers including civilian worker during the Korean War. Methods: The War History of Rear Troops of the Korean War (confidential) published in 1955 by the Republic of Korea Army Headquarters was reviewed. Results: During the war, 397,519 patients were admitted to hospitals (wounded in action, 53.9%; wounded on duty, 5.2%; due to disease, 40.9%). Most of the admitted patients were service members (92.4%), while the remaining were non-soldiers (7.6%). Among the 397,519 patients admitted to hospitals, 11,537 patients (2.9%) died. Most of the patients who died were service members (87.9%), and the remaining were non-soldiers (12.1%). The yearly numbers of died on duty did not vary much. The yearly number of deaths from diseases was lower in 1950, but suddenly increased in the next year and continued thereafter. Injuries accounted for more than three-fifths of the causes of death (n=7,444, 60.1%). Respiratory diseases corresponded to almost a quarter (n=2,799, 22.6%; 1,611 pulmonary tuberculoses and 1,188 other respiratory diseases). The most common category of causes of death was wounds (gunshot or stab; n=3,199, 25.8%), followed by wounds from fragments (n=3,173, 25.6%), pulmonary tuberculosis (n=1,611, 13.0%), and other respiratory diseases (n=1,188, 9.6%). Among the common causes of death, percentages of wounds and wound by fragments decreased over time; however, the deaths from respiratory disease increased. Conclusions: These findings reflect several aspects of the public health and social situation during the Korean War.