Civil action: A civil action is an action brought by a plaintiff to enforce or protect private rights. Put another way, a civil action is a legal demand instituted in a court to enforce a right. [85%] 2023-03-10 [Legal Terms]
Civil control of the military: Civil control of the military is a doctrine in military and political science that places ultimate responsibility for a country's strategic decision-making in the hands of the state's civil authority, rather than completely with professional military leadership ... (Doctrine concerning civil authority over military decisions) [82%] 2024-09-25 [Accountability] [Civil–military relations]...
Kinetic military action: "Kinetic military action" is a euphemism for military action involving active warfare, including lethal force. The phrase is used to contrast between conventional military (kinetic) action from "soft" force increasingly used against enemies, including diplomacy, sanctions and cyber warfare. (Euphemism for active warfare) [76%] 2023-12-15 [Euphemisms] [Political communication]...
Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay: The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–85), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the U.S. backed 1973 coup d'état) until March ... (Social) [72%] 2023-03-07 [Authoritarianism]
The Action: The Action were an English band of the 1960s, formed as the Boys in August 1963, in Kentish Town, North West London. They were part of the mod subculture, and played soul music-influenced pop music. (English rock band (1963-1969)) [72%] 2024-05-09 [Musical groups from the London Borough of Camden] [Parlophone artists]...
A Civil Action: A Civil Action (en España, Acción civil; en Hispanoamérica, Una acción civil) es una película dramática estadounidense de 1998 dirigida por Steven Zaillian y con actuación de John Travolta y Robert Duvall. El filme está basado en el libro homónimo de ... [69%] 2024-01-19
A Civil Action: A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller. (1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr) [69%] 2024-10-08 [1995 non-fiction books] [1995 in the environment]...
Civil-military coordination: Civil-military coordination is efforts to coordinate activities in peacekeeping or humanitarian assistance missions during United Nations (UN) operations. Civil-military cooperation seeks to gain unity of effort among military forces, police agencies and civilian organizations engaged in such operations. [68%] 2023-10-04 [Civil affairs] [United Nations peacekeeping]...
Civil–military relations: Civil–military relations (Civ-Mil or CMR) describes the relationship between military organizations and civil society, military organizations and other government bureaucracies, and leaders and the military. CMR incorporates a diverse, often normative field, which moves within and across management ... (Social) [68%] 2023-12-16 [Political science theories] [Military sociology]...
Civil–military relations: Civil–military relations (Civ-Mil or CMR) describes the relationship between military organizations and civil society, military organizations and other government bureaucracies, and leaders and the military. CMR incorporates a diverse, often normative field, which moves within and across management ... (Study of the relationship between a country's armed forces and civil society/government) [68%] 2024-01-04 [Civil–military relations] [Political science theories]...
Civil-military relations: Civil-military relations : Relationship between civilian government and the military of nations. [68%] 2023-06-23
Action: If a person's head moves, she may or may not have moved her head, and, if she did move it, she may have actively performed the movement of her head or merely, by doing something else, caused a passive ... (Philosophy) [67%] 2021-12-24
Action (physics): In physics, action is a scalar quantity that describes how the balance of kinetic versus potential energy of a physical system changes with trajectory. Action is quantized: the smallest value ( ℏ / 2 {\displaystyle \hbar /2} ) is limited by Planck's constant. (Physics) [67%] 2024-01-12 [Action (physics)] [Lagrangian mechanics]...
Action (firearms): Action in the context of firearms world refers to "The combination of the receiver or frame and breech bolt together with the other parts of the mechanism by which a firearm is loaded, fired and unloaded.". (Firearms) [67%] 2023-03-08 [Firearms Glossary] [Firearms]...
Action: An action is a cause, suit, or controversy disputed or contested before a court of justice. [67%] 2023-02-26 [Legal Terms]
Action (1921 film): Action is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. The film is considered to be lost. (1921 film) [67%] 2024-01-05 [1921 films] [1921 lost films]...
Action (firearms): In firearms terminology, an action is the functional mechanism of a breech-loading firearm that handles (loads, locks, fires, extracts and ejects) the ammunition cartridges, or the method by which that mechanism works. Actions are technically not present on muzzleloaders ... (Firearms) [67%] 2023-09-13 [Firearm actions] [Firearm terminology]...