Word: reconquest
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...before a general audience by a museum. If the show itself, with its 120-some items, seems a little thin to the casual eye, this is due to the extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic period. After the reconquest, bronze and gold were melted down, jewels prized from their settings, manuscripts burned, textiles left to rot, pottery smashed. Not much survived the iconoclastic vengeance of Christians after the 16th century...
Even a decisive relief of Sarajevo while Serbian aggression raged on elsewhere in Bosnia would be no great victory. In Washington there is talk of establishing protected islands of security throughout the country. The extreme option would be reconquest of Bosnian territory already taken over by the Serbs. Some British sources estimate that would require at least 300,000 troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons...
...might be exclusively American, made up of troops stationed outside Europe, or it might include some Canadian and Spanish units and some European reservists. The idea is that even if the Soviet Union should turn aggressive again, preparations for an assault -- which might have to begin with a reconquest of Eastern Europe -- would take months. NATO should have ample time to call up reserves and bring in forces from...
Illich proposes a society of participatory democracy and "technological maturity" where the industrial mode of production complements other more "autonomous" modes of production. He writes, "... Power must be reappropriated and submitted to the sound judgment of the common man. The reconquest of power starts with the recognition that expert knowledge blinds the secretive bureaucrat to the obvious way of dissolving the energy crisis, just as it has blinded him to recognize the obvious solution to the war in Vietnam." The rich must achieve technological maturity by pursuing "the road to liberation from affluence" and the poor must take "the road...
...Versailles Treaty did not even succeed in constraining Germany. The Allies developed such intense feelings of guilt about it that when, in the 1930s, Hitler began his reconquest of territory, they felt he was only redressing Germany's wrongs. Post-World War I Germany, as Watt makes clear, served as a most chilling example, very relevant today, of what happens when ruthless poltics are freely practiced: polarization; violence that feeds upon itself; final rule by savagery. Whether it comes from left or right makes little difference to he victims...