Moscow has also conducted simulated strategic bombing runs with Soviet-era long-range, nuclear-capable aircraft.

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Finally the Germans admitted defeat by changing tactics and began the Blitz, the strategic bombing of London and southern England.

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Cases such as strategic bombing, blackouts, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks have not typically led to total or long-term collapse of social, economic, or technological systems.

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Mr Hastings has written books on Britain's strategic bombing campaign, the Allied invasion of Normandy and the battles for Germany and Japan in the closing stages of the war.

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Initially articulated by former Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov in a moment of frustration during NATO's 1999 bombing campaign in Kosovo, the strategic triangle, as it is now frequently called, has progressed in its development yet maintains the vision of its architect.

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During ongoing Foal Eagle military maneuvers in South Korea, two U.S. B-2 strategic stealth bombers, flying from their base in Missouri, conducted a mock bombing run on a South Korean range.

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So the first key change was a big sea change in the Sunnis' appreciation of the strategic reality of Iraq brought about by al-Qaeda and Iraq's mistake in bombing the mosque and bringing the militias under the war.

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