Was the less-restrictive rating a recognition of Spielberg's superior filmmaking talents and the historical value of a movie that honestly explores the butchery of mechanized warfare?
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The Spanish Civil War, although the testing grounds for the nations which would ultimately take part in World War II, proved inconclusive with regard to the proof of mechanized warfare.
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Following the war, he returned to his 1st Cavalry Division in 1931, he continued to develop and experiment with armored forces, thus becoming the leading American advocate of mechanized warfare.
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The unit today is about a company-plus strength and maintains very strong affiliation to the Cavalry, Guards and the Airborne fraternity with 100 percent troopers airborne qualified and equipped for mechanized warfare.
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Reynaud was a supporter of Charles de Gaulle's theories of mechanized warfare in contrast to the static defense doctrines that were in vogue among many of his countrymen, symbolized by the Maginot Line.
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This was the era of dogfights high above the battlefields, of " aces " who shot down five enemy planes, of hot pursuit, of the last resort of individualism in the midst of mechanized warfare.
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Russia's conscript forces are brutalized and demoralized, its officer corps is top-heavy and shaped by outdated Soviet doctrines of mechanized warfare, and much of its equipment is either old or being used improperly.
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For sure, it's no great war movie, no " Saving Private Ryan " that updates and expands the combat-movie genre and has something new to say about the horror and irony of mechanized warfare.
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Their original unmanned probe that surveyed Earth a thousand years ago found only a medieval civilization of armored knights on horseback, but the Race was astonished that 20th century Earth had reached an industrial technology level, with radios and mechanized warfare.
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While Zhukov simply viewed his relationship with Stalin as one of subordinate senior, Stalin was in awe and possibly jealous of Zhukov . Both were military commanders, but Stalin's experience was restricted to a previous generation of non-mechanized warfare.
