scholarly journals Thoughts on the Role of Cavalry in Medieval Warfare

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-178
Author(s):  
Jack Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Small Unit ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Medieval Warfare

This article explores the role of cavalry in medieval warfare starting with it’s origins in the Carolingian age, examining how cavalry was used as a strategic asset within the context of the period on at an operational level, as well as the tactics they were likely to have employed. Due to my interest in both medieval warhorses and mounted combat research into the context and use of medieval cavalry was a natural by-product. Using primary resources such as first-hand accounts and period artwork as well as secondary literature, the article summarizes the findings of my research. Most historians, despite the recognition that field-battles were not the heart and soul of medieval warfare, still judge medieval cavalry by their performance within them. My findings show a much greater concentration on small unit actions, both in armament and organization, with cavalry centred on chevauchées on raiding and subduing castles in swift commando type take and hold missions. The diversity of mounted forces are also examined in the context of the lance and the integration of mounted crossbowmen and bowmen for combined arms tactics.

Comparative Analysis of Commercial Knowledge Management Solutions and their Role in Enterprises

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 71-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Janev ◽  
Sanja Vraneš
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Enterprise Integration ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Research Organisations ◽  
Insight Into

Knowledge technologies are a subject of permanent interest for software engineers at research organisations, as well as for market analysts in commercial organisations. In this paper, which aims to clarify the role of knowledge management solutions in an enterprise business, we survey the market of commercial knowledge management solutions and analyse their functionalities in domains such as document management, information retrieval, collaboration, decision support, e-learning, business automation and enterprise integration. The survey is based on a thorough study of web resources of knowledge management solution providers. Regarding the role of knowledge solutions in the business process, the present study will show that on an operational level they serve for better utilisation of the enterprise knowledge resources and, on a strategic level, they synthesise new knowledge needed for better management of customers, suppliers and partners. This paper gives an insight into the knowledge management market that can help strategic planners to easily begin a knowledge management initiative.

scholarly journals Same Water, Difference Dreams: Salient Lessons of the Sino-Japanese War for Future Naval Warfare

MCU Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Andrew Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
And Training

American officers considering the role of the sea Services in a future war must understand the history and organizational culture of the Chinese military and consider how these factors shape the Chinese approach to naval strategy and operations. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 remains a cautionary tale full of salient lessons for future conflict. A review of recent Chinese publications highlights several consistent themes that underpin Chinese thinking about naval strategy. Chinese authors assess that the future requires that China inculcate an awareness of the maritime domain in its people, that it build institutions that can sustain seapower, and that, at the operational level, it actively seeks to contest and gain sea control far from shore. Careful consideration of the Sino-Japanese War can support two priority focus areas from the Commandant’s Planning Guidance: “warfighting” and “education and training.”

Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia

Islamisation ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 336-352
Author(s):  
Devin DeWeese
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Iconic Status

The figure of Ahmad Yasavi has taken on iconic status as a saint particularly associated with the Turks, and with their Islamisation; the notion that he was somehow instrumental in the spread of Islam among the nomadic Turks of Central Asia is one of the standard assumptions about his historical and religious role to be found in most of the longer or shorter accounts of him in the secondary literature. The notion of Yasavi as an Islamising saint rests on several foundations. In the first place, that reputation is now entrenched ‘on-site’, so to speak, namely at his shrine in southern Kazakhstan. To some extent this reflects a standard ‘latter-day’ motif in hagiological traditions, particularly in the post-Soviet world, where virtually any and every shrine may be linked with a saint who tends to be identifi ed as a bringer of Islam, in part as a result of the loss of any awareness of the historical role or legacy of the saint in question. ‘Who was such-and-such a saint, buried here?’ ‘He brought Islam here’ is now the default answer.

Apriority, Metaphysics, and Empirical Content in Kant's Theory of Matter

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Rand
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Empirical Concept ◽  
The Real ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Pure Intuition ◽  
Real Essence

AbstractThis paper addresses problems associated with the role of the empirical concept of matter in Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, offering an interpretation emphasizing two points consistently neglected in the secondary literature: the distinction between logical and real essence, and Kant's claim that motion must be represented in pure intuition by static geometrical figures. I conclude that special metaphysics cannot achieve its stated and systematically justified goal of discovering the real essence of matter, but that Kant requires this failure for his larger philosophical presentation of the dialectic that ‘irremediably attaches to human reason’ (A298/B354).

scholarly journals Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402097501
Author(s):  
Buhari Shehu Miapyen ◽  
Umut Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Global And Local

This research discusses the environmental pollution by the capital in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria and identifies two historical agents that have the potential to harmonize their social power through a common language that may create a new social and political agency. We argue that the working class and the community-based social movements are necessary but not sufficient agents of transformation in the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The cooperation between the global and local sites of resistance is an imperative: a synergy and deliberate action by the conglomerate of trade unions, community-based social movements, nongovernmental organizations, local and global activists, nurtures the potential to transform the capitalist domination, exploitation, and expropriation in Nigeria. Using secondary literature sources, we re-visit the conversation on the role of capital and the pollution of environment in Nigeria through the concept of “Movement of Movements”.

A Comparison of Observer and Incumbent Ratings of Situation Awareness

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Matthews ◽  
Silas G. Martinez ◽  
Jarle Eid ◽  
Bjorn Helge Johnsen ◽  
Ole Christian Boe
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Small Unit ◽  
Behavioral Rating ◽  
Training Exercises

The Situation Awareness Behavioral Rating Scale (SABARS) utilizes ratings by expert observer/controllers (O/Cs) to evaluate situation awareness (SA) of infantry small unit leaders. Previous research (Matthews et al., 2004) showed SABARS to be predictive of a variety of performance measures. The current study explored the question of whether small unit leaders could use SABARS to accurately rate their own behavior as an index of their SA. To evaluate this question, 12 Norwegian Army and Navy Academy cadets participating in the role of squad leader during summer training exercises were given the SABARS to complete following an infantry mission. An experienced officer O/C observed the cadets though the execution of the mission and also provided SABARS ratings on the squad leader. Results indicated that “self-SABARS” evaluations did not correlate with SABARS completed by O/C's, and were not predictive of performance criteria. O/C-completed SABARS were, however, predictive of performance criteria thus replicating findings reported previously (Matthews et al., 2004). Implications for assessing SA in the field are discussed.

Sabers through the Reich

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Stuart Nance ◽  
Robert M. Citino
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Action ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
Maneuver Warfare ◽  
Actual Size

This work provides a complete battle history of American corps cavalry in World War II. It asserts that these cavalry formations made an outsized contribution to the Allied victory in the European theatre in correlation to their actual size. These cavalry groups made the "90 Division gamble" actually work, allowing American corps and army commanders to mass combat power at the decisive point. Furthermore, this work also highlights the role of the reconnaissance and security battle at the operational level. It demonstrates how this long-overlooked part of military operations is an absolute essential in maneuver warfare. This “battle before the battle” fundamentally shapes the conditions for the main action, yet a thorough study of this fighting has long been ignored in the literature—a failing that this work remedies.

scholarly journals Marketing accountability and marketing automation: evidence from Portugal

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana C. Silva ◽  
Leonardo Corbo ◽  
Božidar Vlačić ◽  
Mariana Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marketing Automation ◽  
A Value ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Chief Marketing Officer ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Marketing Accountability ◽  
Return On Marketing

PurposeThe present study seeks to outline the role of marketing automation (MA) in measuring the return on marketing activities and the challenges associated with reaching accountability in marketing.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate the objective of the study, the authors adopted a qualitative approach, conducting an exploratory study among ten key informants located in Portugal.FindingsBased on the results of the qualitative analysis, a conceptual framework is proposed, which includes both strategic- and operational-level factors with the goal of creating a value-based agenda. In this agenda, executives such as the Chief Marketing Officer emerge as value creators, fostering business scalability, and further arguments are provided to justify budget allocation to MA activities.Originality/valueThrough careful research of the elements that characterize the phenomenon under study, the present paper ultimately contributes to a better understanding of MA and accountability within the current business paradigm.

scholarly journals Improving the Management Accounting System through Strategic Budgeting in an Industrial Enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
K. Simakov ◽  
◽  
S. Chernyshova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Budgeting Process

The article defines the principles of formation, development, implementation and use of management accounting at an industrial enterprise. The scheme of making managerial decisions within the concept of budgeting is given. The necessity of determining the role of budgeting in the system of management accounting of an industrial enterprise is substantiated. The relationship between the budgeting process and the strategic goals of the industrial enterprise with the help of a balanced system of indicators, which provides a comprehensive assessment of the strategic indicators of the enterprise by integrating its strategic goals and tactical capabilities. The mechanism of transformation of strategic goals of an industrial enterprise to the operational level with the help of components of a balanced system of indicators is presented. It is proved that the use of strategic budgets in the system of management accounting makes it possible to improve the quality of current and strategic planning in the enterprise, to make it an effective element of the management system.

scholarly journals Controller involvement in a project management setting: effects on project functions and performance

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Malagueño ◽  
Jacobo Gomez-Conde ◽  
Yannick de Harlez ◽  
Olaf Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Project Risks ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Country Specific

PurposeThe authors examine the extent to which a controller's involvement in project functions (namely definition and scope, organization, constraints management and risk management) cascades down to project performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors test the study’s framework using survey data from a sample of project leaders in German and Swiss firms. Responses were analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) technique.FindingsThe authors find that controllers contribute to project success via the previously described project functions. Further, the study reveals the crucial role of controllers in managing uncertainty and project risks.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the arguments used in this research were not country specific and suggest that the findings of this study also apply to the controller professional in general, this study clearly acknowledges that further research is needed to address the effects of this role in different jurisdictions given the specific characteristics of controllers acting in German-speaking countries.Practical implicationsThe authors provide insights on the role of controllers at an operational level, like project management, highlighting the need for controllers to support an effective project governance.Originality/valueThe authors add to the literature by examining the role of controllers in highly knowledge-intensive, highly pressured, task-driven, interdependent and dynamic operational settings, thus contributing to a better understanding of how controllers function at an operational level. The authors also strengthen a broader role of controllers in project management that goes beyond their historical controlling activities to include more modern functions, extending previous studies analyzing their professional identity.

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