Masterfully Crafted this masterpiece captures the imagination in a truly awe-inspiring collectors piece. Pantera has four fingerholes which allow for a very comfortable grip which is nicely attained with the use of black/grey woodgrain styled composite grips. The handpiece is crafted in steel with a dull finish and measures approximately 5 in. wide.
The eye-catching claw-blades each measure approximately 8.5 in. long and are wickedly shaped. They are crafted of 440 stainless steel and are razor sharp!
Also included is a black painted wood wall plaque which comes assembled and proudly and securely displays this treasure.
The original version of the first Sword of the Ancients featuring intricately detailed cast metal handles and tempered stainless steel blades. Each sword comes with an 18" x 24" art print Vaelen Confronts Darkness.
Unlock the secrets of Atlantis with the Leviathan the blade used to slay the mythical sea monster. Features a solid metal handle and a fantasy-styled blade engraved with the story of the mighty LeviathanOs defeat in a sacred language of the ancient Atlanteans. Includes wall plaque with mounting hardware instructions.
Designed by fantasy artist Kit Raea this deluxe version of the sword features a fantasy-styled stainless steel blade with intricately detailed scrollwork and cast metal handles with an antique silver plated finish and gold-tone highlights.
Each sword includes an 18" x 24" art print "Vaelen Confronts Darkness II." These adult collectible swords are branded with the designer's trademark and includes a new chapter in "The Tale of the Swords of the Ancients" printed on parchment paper.
UC1240 Elexorien - Sword of War
Forged with the talisman symbol of Akeron the horned spider holding a symbolic drop of poison venom on its cross guard. Queen Vaelen used the power of Elexorien to unite the great lords of the realm against the Black Legion.
A magical sword given to Frodo Baggins by his cousin Bilbo the original Ringbearer. It is up to Frodo and the chosen Fellowship to cast the Ring back into the fires of Mount Doom where it was originally forged and destroy it once and for all.
Bilbo gives Sting a sword made by Elves in the ancient days to Frodo to serve him on his harrowing journey. Bilbo carried Sting with him when he originally acquired the Ring from Gollum.
Sting's blade glows when Orcs the violent footsoldiers of Sauron are present.
Engraved on the blade and cross guard are runes in the Elven language of
Sindarin that say "Maegnas is my name I am the spider's bane."
Handle Material:Cast metal with an antique finish handgrip with Elven vine design rat-tail tang construction.
Display: 3-3/4" x 3" x 2-1/2" cold cast porcelain base with a hand painted finish and brass shield.
List Price - $44.99
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
With over 100 million copies sold in over 40 languages millions have grown up with The Lord of the Rings the classic epic tale considered by millions to be the greatest fantasy-adventure story ever told. J.R.R. Tolkien's phenomenal epic trilogy chronicles the struggle between good and evil for possession of a magical ring.
The book trilogy named the most popular book of the 20th Century is the motion picture event of the 21st Century. The Lord of the Rings is presented in a trilogy of feature films from New Line Cinema beginning with the blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring and continuing with the 2nd film The Two Towers to be released December 2002.
A work of sheer invention on a staggering scale The Lord of the Rings takes us back to Middle-earth an era that predates written history where humans share the world with immortal elves powerful wizards and industrious dwarves.
THE SWORDS
United Cutlery the industry leader in movie knife reproductions has been awarded the license to reproduce swords from all three films. United has meticulously reproduced the actual prop swords using only the finest grade materials and craftsmanship of the highest quality. Each sword is presented with a wood wall plaque and a certificate of authenticity.
C2002 New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved. The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of The Ring and the characters and the places therein The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved.
United Cutlery presents Glamdring the collectible reproduction sword featured in the Lord of the Rings films. It is an ancient sword carried by Gandalf the Grey who is an old but powerful wizard and friend to Frodo Baggins.
Glamdring a magical sword glows in the presence of an enemy and it serves Gandalf in his mission to aid the Fellowship of the Ring.
It was made by ancient Elves and is inscribed with runes in the Elven language that say the sword was forged for Turgon the King of Gondolin.
Handle Material: Cast metal with an antique finish crossguard is engraved with Elven runes handgrip with blue finish rat-tail
tang construction.
Display: 3-3/4" x 3" x 2-1/2" cold cast porcelain base with a hand painted finish and brass shield.
List Price - $44.99
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
With over 100 million copies sold in over 40 languages millions have grown up with The Lord of the Rings the classic epic tale considered by millions to be the greatest fantasy-adventure story ever told. J.R.R. Tolkien's phenomenal epic trilogy chronicles the struggle between good and evil for possession of a magical ring.
The book trilogy named the most popular book of the 20th Century is the motion picture event of the 21st Century. The Lord of the Rings is presented in a trilogy of feature films from New Line Cinema beginning with the blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring and continuing with the 2nd film The Two Towers to be released December 2002.
A work of sheer invention on a staggering scale The Lord of the Rings takes us back to Middle-earth an era that predates written history where humans share the world with immortal elves powerful wizards and industrious dwarves.
THE SWORDS
United Cutlery the industry leader in movie knife reproductions has been awarded the license to reproduce swords from all three films. United has meticulously reproduced the actual prop swords using only the finest grade materials and craftsmanship of the highest quality. Each sword is presented with a wood wall plaque and a certificate of authenticity.
C2002 New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved. The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of The Ring and the characters and the places therein The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved.
This evil and ancient sword is wielded by the Witchking leader of the nine Ringwraiths the indestructible and relentless shadow servants of Sauron. They were once mortal kings of men that Sauron corrupted with his Ring of Power.
The Witchking's sword was built by armourers of the dark land of Mordor under the command of their evil master Sauron.
Handle Material: Cast metal with an antique finish engraved detailed designs handgrip with black finish rat-tail tang construction.
Display: 3-3/4" x 3" x 2-1/2" cold cast porcelain base with a hand painted finish and brass shield.
List Price - $44.99
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
With over 100 million copies sold in over 40 languages millions have grown up with The Lord of the Rings the classic epic tale considered by millions to be the greatest fantasy-adventure story ever told. J.R.R. Tolkien's phenomenal epic trilogy chronicles the struggle between good and evil for possession of a magical ring.
The book trilogy named the most popular book of the 20th Century is the motion picture event of the 21st Century. The Lord of the Rings is presented in a trilogy of feature films from New Line Cinema beginning with the blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring and continuing with the 2nd film The Two Towers to be released December 2002.
A work of sheer invention on a staggering scale The Lord of the Rings takes us back to Middle-earth an era that predates written history where humans share the world with immortal elves powerful wizards and industrious dwarves.
THE SWORDS
United Cutlery the industry leader in movie knife reproductions has been awarded the license to reproduce swords from all three films. United has meticulously reproduced the actual prop swords using only the finest grade materials and craftsmanship of the highest quality. Each sword is presented with a wood wall plaque and a certificate of authenticity.
C2002 New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved. The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of The Ring and the characters and the places therein The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to New Line Productions Inc. All rights reserved.
Straight out of the movies comes this beautifully crafted replica scabbard as used by Aragorn the heroic ranger from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The piece is wrapped in genunine green leather with antiqued silver metal and brass finished trimmings. Securely housed in the scabbard is also a stainless steel hunting knife with a rich wooden handle capped with a silver stainless steel pommel trimmed with brass as well as a brass bolster. The single-edged blade is approximately 6 1/2" long. The scabbard is approximately 40" in length.
This authentically detailed staff is a reproduction of the one carried by Saruman and prominently featured in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy presented by New Line Cinema. This movie replica piece has been meticulously recreated using the finest grade materials and craftsmanship of the highest quality available.
This exquisite staff measures a full 76 1/8 inches in length and is constructed of solid metal. The crown cradles a leaded glass crystal ball with frosted etchings.
Includes an antique iron finished wall mount with embossed designs and a parchment certificate of authenticity.
The seventh edition in the Legends In Steel Collection a series of historically inspired designs of medieval European period blades is the dagger and signet ring of the mythical Sir Gawaine who was King Arthur's nephew and one of the Knights of the Round Table. This classic dagger features intricately detailed cast metal parts with an antique silver plated finish and a leather-wrapped grip. The pommel and signet ring both feature matching seals. Includes a certificate of authenticity and a wood display stand with signet ring holder.
Overall Length: 15 5/16"
Blade: 9 3/4 "
Blade Thickness: 5/32"
Blade Material: 420 stainless steel double-edged milled blood groove on both sides.
Display: 5-3/4" x 5-3/8" x 4-7/8" wood includes hardware instructions. Includes: Certificate of Authenticity Wooden Display Stand & Signet Ring
Price: 62.69
This is the authentic reproduction of the glaive used by Blade the dark hero in Marvel Comic's story of the same name. The deadly glaive is a dual-bladed weapon which Blade throws to slay vampires en masse. The glaive is a striking piece for any collection with a mirror polished finish and razor sharp edges. It can be folded down in half due to a lock-swivel hinge for easy storage. It is packaged with a eye-catching plaque that can be both wall-mounted and displayed on a desktop.
Blade is a "day walker" a half-breed vampire able to roam the world even in daylight which is fatal for regular vampires. He uses this ability to seek out and destroy full-bred vampires which prey on the masses regularly.
Get your authentic Blade: "Glaive" today!
Overall Length(unfolded): 9 3/4"
Blade Thickness: 1/8 "
Blade Material: Double-edged stainless steel
Handle Material: Cast metal "handle" with silver decorations and black finish background.
Stand: approx. 10 5/8" L x 3/4" W x 7 1/2" H. Includes "Blade" Decorative Insignia and mounting hardware
Blade is a trademark and copyright of Marvel Characters Inc. C 2000
These are beautiful swords and are well made. Each sword has a hardwood RED with Black brush finished scabbards. The end caps and hilt are dark silver steel with a decorated design. The black cord wrappings nicely match the scabbard colors.
The sword lengths are 21 inch 31 inch and 40 inch.
The base of the stand is 12-1/2 inches wide and 12 inches high and is constructed of solid wood with a high gloss black finish.
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Price: 12.99
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War is the reciprocal and violent application
of force between hostile political entities aimed at
bringing about a desired political end-state via armed
conflict. In his seminal work,
On War,
Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the "continuation of
political intercourse, carried on with other means."[1]
War is an interaction in which two or more militaries
have a “struggle of wills”.[2]
When qualified as a
civil war, it is a dispute inherent to a given
society, and its nature is in the conflict over modes of
governance rather than
sovereignty. War is not considered to be the same as
mere
occupation,
murder or
genocide because of the reciprocal nature of the
violent struggle, and the
organized nature of the units involved.
War is also a cultural entity, and its practice is
not linked to any single type of political organisation
or society. Rather, as discussed by
John Keegan in his “History Of Warfare”, war is a
universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by
the society that wages it.
[3]
The conduct of war extends along a continuum, from the
almost universal
tribal warfare that began well before recorded human
history, to wars between
city states,
nations, or
empires. A group of combatants and their support is
called an
army on land, a
navy at sea, and
air force in the air. Wars may be prosecuted
simultaneously in one or more different
theatres. Within each theatre, there may be one or
more consecutive
military campaigns. A military campaign includes not
only fighting but also intelligence, troop movements,
supplies,
propaganda, and other components. Continuous
conflict is traditionally called a
battle, although this terminology is not always fed
to conflicts involving aircraft, missiles or bombs
alone, in the absence of ground troops or naval forces.
War is not limited to the
human species, as
ants engage in massive intra-species conflicts which
might be termed warfare. It is theorized that other
species also engage in similar behavior, although this
is not well documented.
[4][5][6]
Some believe war has always been with us; others
stress the lack of clear evidence that war is not in our
prehistoric past, and the fact that many peaceful,
non-military societies have and still do exist.
Originally, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding.
Since the rise of the state some 5000 years ago,
military activity has occurred over much of the globe.
The advent of gunpowder and the acceleration of
technological advances led to modern warfare.
Since the close of the
Vietnam War, the ideas expounded by the Prussian
military theorist Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) have
come to thoroughly permeate American military writing,
doctrinal, theoretical, and historical. His book
On War, first published (as
Vom Kriege) in 1832, was adopted as a key
text at the Naval War College in 1976, the Air War
College in 1978, the Army War College in 1981. It has
always been central at the U.S. Army's School for
Advanced Military Studies at Leavenworth (founded in
1983). The U.S. Marine Corps's brilliant little
philosophical field manual
FMFM 1: Warfighting (1989) is essentially a
distillation of On War, and the newer Marine
Corps Doctrinal Publications (MCDPs,
c.1997) are equally reflective of Clausewitz's basic
concepts.*1
This is not the first time Clausewitz has been in
fashion. Indeed, On War has been the bible of
many thoughtful soldiers ever since Field Marshal
Helmuth von Moltke attributed to its guidance his
stunning victories in the wars of German unification
(1864, 1866, 1870-71). Nor is it the first time that
individual American soldiers and military
thinkers have been attracted by his ideas: George
Patton, Albert Wedemeyer, and—especially—Dwight
Eisenhower were intensely interested in what he had to
say.
It is, however, the first time that the American
armed forces as institutions have turned to
Clausewitz. While the philosopher had insisted that war
was "simply the expression of politics by other means,"
the traditional attitude of American soldiers had been
that "politics and strategy are radically and
fundamentally things apart. Strategy begins where
politics end. All that soldiers ask is that once the
policy is settled, strategy and command shall be
regarded as being in a sphere apart from politics."*2
The sudden acceptability of Clausewitz in the wake of
Vietnam is not difficult to account for, for among the
major military theorists only Clausewitz seriously
struggled with the sort of dilemma that American
military leaders faced in the aftermath of their defeat.
Clearly, in what had come to be called in scathing terms
a "political war," the political and military components
of the American war effort had come unstuck. It ran
against the grain of America's military men to criticize
elected civilian leaders, but it was just as difficult
to take the blame upon themselves. Clausewitz's analysis
could not have been more relevant:
The more powerful and inspiring the motives for
war,... the more closely will the military aims and
the political objects of war coincide, and the more
military and less political will war appear to be.
On the other hand, the less intense the motives, the
less will the military element's natural tendency to
violence coincide with political directives. As a
result, war will be driven further from its natural
course, the political object will be more and more
at variance with the aim of ideal war, and the
conflict will seem increasingly political in
character.*3
When people talk, as they often do, about
harmful political influence on the management of
war, they are not really saying what they mean.
Their quarrel should be with the policy itself, not
with its influence.
Vom Kriege (IPA: [fɔm
ˈkʁiːgə]) is a book on
war and
military strategy by
Prussian general
Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the
Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and
published posthumously by his wife in 1832. It has been
translated into
English several times as On War. On
War is actually an unfinished work; Clausewitz had
set about revising his accumulated manuscripts in 1827,
but did not live to finish the task. His wife eventually
compiled all the work and the final two chapters
Clausewitz never finished.
On War is one of the first books on modern
military strategy. This is mainly due to Clausewitz'
integration of politics and social and economic issues
as some of the most important factors in deciding the
outcomes of a war. It is one of the most important
treatises on strategy ever written, and is prescribed at
various
military academies to this day.
Carl von Clausewitz was a
Prussian officer among those baffled by how the
armies of the
French Revolution and
Napoleon had changed the nature of war through their
ability to motivate the populace and thus unleash war on
a greater scale than had previously been the case in
Europe. Clausewitz was well educated and had a strong
interest in art, science, and education, but he was a
professional soldier who spent a considerable part of
his life fighting against Napoleon. There is no doubt
that the insights he gained from his experiences,
combined with a solid grasp of European history,
provided much of the raw material for the book. On
War represents the compilation of his most cogent
observations.
Note: Clausewitz states that Napoleon's tactics were
not revolutionary at all and that Napoleonic Warfare did
not change anything greatly in military history. The
technology of weaponry for the most part remained
static, and new strategies weren't developed, but rather
Napoleon refurbished old ones, mixing them into one
grand strategy.
The book contains a wealth of historical examples
used to illustrate its various concepts.
Frederick II of Prussia (the Great) figures
prominently for having made very efficient use of the
limited forces at his disposal.
Napoleon also is a central figure.
Among many strands of thought, three stand out as
essential to Clausewitz' concept:
War must never be seen as a purpose to itself,
but as a means of physically forcing one's will on
an opponent ("War is not merely a political act, but
also a real political instrument, a continuation of
political commerce, a carrying out of the same by
other means."[1]).
The military objectives in war that support
one's political objectives fall into two broad
types: "war to achieve limited aims" and war to
"disarm” the enemy: “to render [him] politically
helpless or militarily impotent."
The course of war will tend to favor the party
employing more force and resources (a notion
extended by Germany's leaders in World War One into
"total war"—the pursuit of complete military victory
regardless of the political consequences).
Military strategy is a
national defence policy implemented by
military organisations to pursue desired
strategic goals.[1]
Derived from the
Greek
strategos, strategy when it appeared in use
during the 18th century[2],
was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the
general"[3],
'the art of arrangement' of troops.[4]
Military strategy deals with the planning and conduct of
campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and
the
deception of the
enemy. The father of modern strategic study,
Carl von Clausewitz, defined military strategy as
"the employment of battles to gain the end of war."
Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on
battles, defining strategy as "the art of distributing
and applying military means to fulfil the ends of
policy" Hence, both gave the pre-eminence to political
aims over military goals, ensuring
civilian control of the military.
"You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your art of war." –
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military strategy is the plan and execution of
the contest between very large groups of armed
adversaries. It involves each opponent's diplomatic,
informational, military, and economic resources wielded
against the other's resources to gain supremacy or
reduce the opponent's will to fight. It is a principle
tool to secure the
national interest. A contemporary military strategy
is developed via
military science.
[5]
It is as old as
society itself. It is a subdiscipline of
warfare and of
foreign policy. In comparison,
grand strategy is that strategy of the largest of
organizations which are currently the
nation state,
confederation, or international
alliances. Military strategy has its origins before
the
Battle of the Ten Kings and will endure through the
space age. It is larger in perspective than
military tactics which is the disposition and
maneuver of units on a particular sea or battlefield.[6]
Military strategy in the 19th century was still
viewed as one of a trivium of "arts" or "sciences" that
govern the conduct of warfare; the others being
tactics, the execution of plans and manœuvering of
forces in battle, and
logistics, the maintenance of an army. The view had
prevailed since the Roman times, and the borderline
between strategy and tactics at this time was blurred,
and sometimes categorization of a decision is a matter
of almost personal opinion.
Carnot, during the
French Revolutionary Wars thought it simply involved
concentration of troops.[7]
The Battle of Siffin, illustration from a
19th century manuscript by
Muhammad Rafi Bazil.
Strategy and
tactics are closely related and exist on the same
continuum.
