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  2. Battle of annihilation - Wikipedia

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    Annihilation is a military strategy in which an attacking army seeks to entirely destroy the military capacity of the opposing army. This strategy can be executed in a single planned pivotal battle, called a "battle of annihilation". A successful battle of annihilation is accomplished through the use of tactical surprise, application of ...

  3. Teacher retention - Wikipedia

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    Teacher attrition and retention also vary based on the sector of the school (e.g., traditional public vs. charter) and whether it is located in an urban or rural area. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The characteristics of teacher, schools, and students can even redefine the effect of salaries on teacher retention.

  4. Attrition warfare - Wikipedia

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    Attrition warfare also tries to increase the friction in a war for the opponent. [7] While attrition warfare might appear to be a strategic option for combatants possessing greater resources or asymmetric advantages over their adversaries, it also carries considerable drawbacks.

  5. Fabian strategy - Wikipedia

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    The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale ...

  6. Anarchism and education - Wikipedia

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    They have included the role of education in social control and socialization, the rights and liberties of youth and children within educational contexts, the inequalities encouraged by current educational systems, the influence of state and religious ideologies in the education of people, the division between social and manual work and its ...

  7. Effects-based operations - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to conventional military approaches of force-on-force application that focused on attrition and annihilation, EBO focused on desired outcomes attempting to use a minimum of force. The approach was enabled by advancements in weaponry—particularly stealth and precision weapons—in conjunction with a planning approach based on specific ...

  8. War of annihilation - Wikipedia

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    War of annihilation is defined as a radicalized form of warfare in which "all psycho-physical limits" are abolished. [1]The Hamburg Institute for Social Research social scientist Jan Philipp Reemtsma sees a war, "which is led, in the worst case, to destroy or even decimate a population", as the heart of the war of annihilation. [2]

  9. Dixon v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Dixon v. Alabama, 294 F.2d 150 (5th Cir. 1961) was a landmark 1961 U.S. federal court decision that spelled the end of the doctrine that colleges and universities could act in loco parentis to discipline or expel their students. [1]