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    Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Counter-Terrorism and Special Police Unit (Chinese: 北京市公安局反恐怖和特警总队) referred to as Beijing SWAT (Chinese: 北京特警)...
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    A SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit within the United States, though the term has also been used by...
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    The Special Duties Unit (SDU; Chinese: 特別任務連), nicknamed the "Flying Tigers" (Chinese: 飛虎隊), is the elite tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force...
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  • Transnational Crime Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Anti Terrorism Unit Bangladesh Ansar Battalion Ansar Militsiya Almaz Special Anti-Terrorism Unit (SPBT Almaz)...
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  • American TV series Special Duties Unit, tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force Helicopter Unit, Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit, Ministry of Public...
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    fatally shot at Hujialou station by a sniper from the Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit after taking a subway worker hostage. On May 4, 2013, a...
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  • equipment and tactics, including the digitised army soldier system and high-mobility land weapon platforms. Beijing Military Region Special Forces Unit - Established...
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    of developing biological weapons. Ishii aimed to create biological weapons with humans as their intended victims, and Unit 731 was formed specifically...
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  • free dictionary. Swat or SWAT may refer to: SWAT (special weapons and tactics), a paramilitary unit of law-enforcement agencies Swat (princely state)...
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    December 2002 and trained in secret for five years. The SWCU and the Beijing SWAT unit were unveiled in a demonstration at the Beijing Police Academy...
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  • Cabbage tactics is a militarily swarming and overwhelming tactic used by the People's Liberation Army Navy to seize control of islands. It is done by surrounding...
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  • arms and light weapons and were given basic training in jungle warfare and small unit tactics. They deeply resemble a paramilitary organisation and later...
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    September 2014. The police required a specialist unit for barricade removal, crowd dispersal and special weapons support. The media reported that the police...
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    People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (category Theater Command grade units of the Armed Forces of China)
    weapons development to break "the superpowers' monopoly on nuclear weapons," to ensure Chinese security against the Soviet and American threats, and to...
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    Japanese Artillery; Weapons and Tactics. Wickenburg, Ariz.: Normount Technical Publications 1973. ISBN 0-87947-157-3. Mayer, S.L. The Rise and Fall of Imperial...
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    without weapons." The KPNLAF favored strike-and-retreat guerrilla tactics and tended to operate in small, lightly armed, highly mobile units of 6 to 12...
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    distinct from the term "cyber war". Cyberwarfare includes techniques, tactics and procedures that may be involved in a cyber war, but the term does not...
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  • Meritorious Service Medal (China) (category Military awards and decorations of the People's Liberation Army)
    caring about the wounded and the new recruits, [sic] are active in thinking to improve combat tactics and techniques...and have excellent outcomes in...
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    People's Liberation Army Ground Force (category Theater Command grade units of the Armed Forces of China)
    air defense systems, special forces, army aviation units, and various engineering, and electronic warfare support systems. Weapon systems at this level...
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    employs any weapon to influence the mind of the enemy. The weapons are psychological only in the effect they produce and not because of the weapons themselves...
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    supplies and weapons NLF and PAVN strategy, organization and structure NLF and PAVN logistics and equipment NLF and PAVN battle tactics Weapons of the Laotian...
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    acting executive authority in Beijing. On 24 April, Li Peng and the PSC met with Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing and mayor Chen Xitong to gauge the...
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    People's Armed Police (category Military units and formations established in 1982)
    Pingliang, Gansu); Three Special Operations detachments (Beijing; Tianjin; Shijiazhuang); Two Transportation detachments (Beijing and Xi’an, Shaanxi); One...
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    Mutual assured destruction (category Nuclear weapons)
    nuclear weapons decreases the risk of crisis escalation, since parties will seek to avoid situations that could lead to the use of nuclear weapons. Proponents...
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    History of gunpowder (category Medieval weapons)
    three acquired artillery and firearms early in their history and made such weapons an integral part of their military tactics. It's not certain when the...
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    tactics in Kashmir. The remaining territory is controlled by the People's Republic of China; some of it was occupied during the Sino-Indian War, and some...
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    World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, serving mainly in airborne and special forces units. He was also a counter-insurgency theorist...
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  • "Refugees as weapons" is a term used to describe a hostile government organizing, or threatening to organize, a sudden influx of refugees into another...
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath (category Video games about nuclear war and weapons)
    After: Fight for Promised Land and known in Russia as Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис), is a real-time tactics computer game developed by Russian...
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  • fist weapon consisting of a hydraulic spike), and rods are examples of melee weapons. Short-range weapons, such as machine guns, shotguns, and flamethrowers...
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