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That, to my mind, is a main cause for the barbarization of political ways in our time.

The second, Barbarization, is one in which environmental collapse leads to an overall societal collapse.

Rather than being weakened by a wholesale barbarization, the church's message became even stronger, making an activist missionary approach all the more compelling.

"Can it be true," Barzun asked, that Americanization is tantamount to barbarization?

Essentially it is argued that the increasing barbarization of the heavy legions weakened weaponry, training, morale and military effectiveness in the long run.

Taken together with the terrify- ing efficiency of the new technical means, the barbarization already forms a fearful threat for the civilized world.

Three classes of scenarios are discussed - Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, and Great Transitions.

Two of the major factors that have occupied scholars of the military will be discussed here: barbarization and the adaptation of a "mobile reserve" strategy.

"But with that comes an inexorable barbarization of everyday life," she added, and the loss of values that "may be difficult to recover once they're gone."

In those days, Hari Seldon foresaw the decline of Imperial power and the eventual barbarization of the entire Galaxy."

In Shahîd's judgment, Zosimus makes this editorial decision to emphasize his central theme-the decline and "barbarization" of Rome.

Growing barbarization, turmoil and weakening of the heavy infantry units in favor of cavalry and lighter troops (See Foederati)

The Global Scenario Group organized its scenarios into three categories: Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, and Great Transition.

By giving such a testimony in the present circumstances I should have been contributing, even if only indirectly, to the barbarization of manners and the destruction of all existing cultural values.

Another alternative future, called Barbarization by the GSG, could emerge if market and policy adaptations are not sufficient to blunt social polarization, environmental degradation, and economic instability.

Despite what might have been seen as easy benefits, the edict came at the cost to the auxiliaries, which primarily consisted of non-citizen men, and led to barbarization of the Roman military.

The essay envisions three broad types of possible twenty-first century scenarios - Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, and Great Transitions - and a number of variations within each category.

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"Barbarization" is a common theme in many works on Rome (See Gibbon, Mommsen, Delbrück, et al.), and thus cannot be excluded from any analysis of its infantry forces.

In a celebrated passage, he compared the introduction of the 'New Music' into Greek theatres to the barbarization of the Poseidoniates in the Bay of Naples.

"The American Empire at War," in The Barbarization of Warfare, edited by George Kassimeris (London: Routledge/NY: NYU Press, 2006).

Even if one agrees with Adorno's strictures about Stravinsky, though, one must also allow that the degree of barbarization represented by Orff's leering rewrite so far exceeds Stravinsky's as to amount to a difference in kind.

The subject of Grossdeutschland's complicity in war crimes was the subject of the book by Omer Bartov The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops, and the Barbarization of Warfare (1986, ISBN 0-312-22486-9).

The growing barbarization of the war, especially following the invasion of the Soviet Union, led to an increasing dehumanization of the abstract image of the 'Jew' and a corresponding 'internalization'of the justification of the need to search for a radical solution to the 'Jewish Question'.

This "Germanization" and the resultant cultural dilution or "barbarization" led not only to a decline in the standard of drill and overall military preparedness within the Empire, but also to a decline of loyalty to the Roman government in favor of loyalty to commanders.

This "barbarisation" of the Empire was paralleled by changes within barbaricum.

This led to a germanisation and barbarisation of the army, as the tax was used to recruit mercenaries.

Barbarisation of the army (117 AD - 253 AD)

The barbarisation theory, ultimately derived from Edward Gibbon's 18th-century magnum opus, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, contains two propositions.

The flavour of the Roman military, however, was now dictated by the increasing number of regional recruits, leading to a partial barbarisation of Rome's military forces beginning in this period.

Bartov, Omer The Eastern Front, 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986, ISBN 0-312-22486-9.

The barbarisation of the lower ranks was paralleled by a concurrent barbarisation of its command structure, with the Roman senators who had traditionally provided its commanders becoming entirely excluded from the army.

However, further to the left the opinion was overwhelmingly negative; the syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren stated that the proposition would lead to "the militarisation and barbarisation of the young souls", and several others went as far as drawing parallels to Hitler-Jugend.