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Mode (s) Single-player. Sid Meier's Civilization is a 1991 turn-based strategy 4X video game developed and published by MicroProse. The game was originally developed for MS-DOS running on a PC, and it has undergone numerous revisions for various platforms. The player is tasked with leading an entire human civilization over the course of several ...
Military payment certificate. One-dollar bill Series 692 ( from the Vietnam War era 1970–73) Military payment certificates, or MPC, was a form of currency used to pay United States (US) military personnel in certain foreign countries in the mid and late twentieth century. They were used in one area or another from a few months after the end ...
Scorched earth – Destroying anything that might be of use to the enemy while retreating, or advancing. Turtling – Continuous reinforcement of the military front until it has reached its full strength, then an attack with the now-superior force. Withdrawal – A retreat of forces while maintaining contact with the enemy.
Penetration of the center: This involves exploiting a gap in the enemy line to drive directly to the enemy's command or base.Two ways of accomplishing this are separating enemy forces then using a reserve to exploit the gap (e.g., Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)) or having fast, elite forces smash at a weak spot (or an area where your elites are at their best in striking power) and using reserves ...
Journalist. Years active. 1999 – present. Adam Ciralsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American journalist, television and film producer and attorney. Many of his original reports have been optioned and adapted for film and television through his production company P3 Media. [1] In 2018, Ciralsky's P3 Media signed a first-look deal with ABC ...
July 28, 2017. (2017-07-28) The Last Tycoon is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios ' seventh pilot season. The show stars Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer and is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's last book, the unfinished and posthumously published 1941 novel The Last Tycoon.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) After receiving a golden bullet with James Bond's code "007" etched into its surface M relieves Bond of a mission locating a British scientist, Gibson, who has invented the "Solex agitator", a device to harness solar power, thereby solving the energy crisis.
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...