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Tori XL Light Katana
The Tori katana combines truly elegant furniture and a powder-steel folded blade with the functionality of our Performance Series. The Tori features a Flying Crane themed Tsuba and Fuchi/Kashira while the Menuki are Kabuto or Japanese helmets. The high quality brown leather Tsuka-ito is wrapped over black Same. The Saya is wrapped at the mouth with black-lacquered rattan and then finished in a textured brown. The Tori is available in three folded steel cutting blade profiles and three Iaito blade lengths.

Competitive Cutting / Lighter Weight
The XL Light blades feature the same geometry as those of the XL but incorporate deeply cut grooves (bo-hi) to reduce the weight of the blade while retaining most of it�s strength and cutting ability. This weight reduction makes for a quicker sword, well adapted for multiple cuts in lighter targets.

Key Features:
  • Folded Steel Blade
  • Premium fittings
  • Built for Martial Artists

    Specifications:
  • Blade length: 28 �
  • Handle length: 11
  • Overall length: 40 �
  • Weight: 2lb 9oz
    Price: 1199.99


  • Tori XL Katana
    The Tori katana combines truly elegant furniture and a powder-steel folded blade with the functionality of our Performance Series. The Tori features a �Flying Crane� themed Tsuba and Fuchi/Kashira while the Menuki are Kabuto or Japanese helmets. The high quality brown leather Tsuka-ito is wrapped over black Same. The Saya is wrapped at the mouth with black-lacquered rattan and then finished in a textured brown. The Tori is available in three folded steel cutting blade profiles and three Iaito blade lengths.

    Heavy Competitive Cutting Designed strictly for competitive cutting, our XL Katana blades incorporate the geometry, strength, weight and profile needed for successful cuts on substantial targets. Featuring differential heat treatment and a narrow edge angle, these wide blades will reward good technique with clean cuts and excellent durability.
    Key Features:
  • Folded Steel Blade
  • Premium fittings
  • Built for Martial Artists

    Specifications:
  • Blade length: 28 ��
  • Handle length: 11�
  • Overall length: 40 ��
  • Weight: 2lb 11oz
  • Point of Balance: 5"
  • Width at Guard: 1.44"
  • Width at Tip: 1.12"
  • Thickness at Guard: .24"
  • Thickness at Tip: .13"
  • Sori: 3/4"
    Price: 1199.99


  • Practical Pro Elite Katana
    The Practical Pro Elite Katana has an extended tsuka and a thicker and longer (29�) Performance Series blade with a finer polish when compared to others in the Practical series. The blade is forged in high-carbon steel and differentially hardened using the traditional claying method. The rayskin-covered tsuka is wrapped with cotton ito and is double-pegged for safety. The saya is finished in a deep black lacquer with a black Japanese cotton sageo. The fittings (koshirae) are finished in antiqued black iron. The katana feature a round Kuruma tsuba, which represents the �Wheel of Dharma,� symbolizing the Buddhist concept of the Noble Eightfold Path. Key Features: * 1065 High-Carbon Blade * Fine Polish * Quality fittings Specifications: Blade length: 29� Handle length: 14� Overall length: 44� Weight: 2lb 13oz Point of Balance: 4" Width at Guard: 1.40" Width at Tip: 1.05" Thickness at Guard: .30" Thickness at Tip: .20" Sori: 3/4" Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 499.99


    Oni Katana
    "The Oni are mythical creatures from Japanese folklore similar to western demons or trolls. In modern culture they are beginning to move away from this menacing connotation into the role of guardian or protector, similar in character to gargoyles. Their power and ferocity, however, have not diminished. There is a Japanese saying which translates to Oni with an iron club, or to be of an invincible nature, a fitting association with the 29� L6/Bainite blade on which our Oni Katana is built. The blade features the geometry of our Performance Series for outstanding cutting ability. The 14� tsuka is wrapped in black ray skin and silk ito while the Koshirae feature Oni in various classical styles. A unique combination of folklore and functionality.

    Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths, due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat treatment procedures necessary for the production of a Bainite blade body in combination with the very hard Martensite Yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades.

    Hanwei has now mastered this difficult process, using billets of L-6 tool steel (a very tough high-carbon low-alloy steel) as a starting point. Blades are forged and shaped in the normal way, then carefully heat treated to achieve the required Bainite and Martensite structures before final polishing.

    Key Features:
  • L6/Bainite Performance Series Katana Blade
  • Traditional Construction
  • Designed for Martial Artists

    Specifications:
  • Blade length: 29 inches
  • Handle length: 14 inches
  • Overall length: 44 inches
  • Weight in box: 2lb 13oz "
    Price: 1669.99


  • Hanwei Modern Fencing Practice Foil- 43"
    Made by Hanwei. Used for practice sessions by fencers worldwide, the Sport Fencing Foil (SHFCFL02) is ideal for the recreational fencer. Featuring a blade of tempered high-carbon steel, forged under strict quality control standards, the foil is built to international standards. Handles are molded rubber, with aluminum guards and steel pommels, weighted for exact balance. A spare blade (OHFCFL01) is also available. MEASUREMENTS: OVERALL LENGTH: 42 3/8 inches WEIGHT: 8oz
    Price: 86.99


    Modern Fencing Sabre
    Used for practice sessions by fencers worldwide, the Sport Fencing Sabre (SHSAFL02) is ideal for the recreational fencer. Featuring a blade of tempered high-carbon steel, forged under strict quality control standards, the sabre is built to international standards. Handles are molded rubber, with aluminum guards and steel pommels, weighted for exact balance. A spare blade (OHSAFL01) is also available. Specifications: Overall length: 40 3/4� Weight: 8oz Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 95.99


    Slingking Water Balloon Slingshot
    Slingking Water Balloon Slingshot Shoots Water Ballons up to 75 Yards. Slingkings exclusive balloon filler allows you to fill balloons with or without a faucet. Slingking water balloon launcher kits contain everything needed for hours of fun!
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    Skull Knuckle Buckle / Paperweight
    Skull Knuckle Buckle / Paperweight
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    Sprinkler Key Hider
    This is an actual sprinkler system head which has been converted into a key hider. Blends so well into your yard or garden that no one would ever think that you had a spare key hidden inside. You will never have to worry about being locked out again and only you and your family members will know the secret location where the key is hidden. The sprinkler head measures 4 inches x 2 inches x 2 inches. The secret compartment measures 3 inches x 1 1/2 inches x 1 1/2 inches. Please note that this item is not a functional sprinkler head. Packaged on color insert card that is hangable.
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    Splatmatic Magnum Splat Paintball Shooter
    Splatmatic Magnum Splat Paintball Shooter requires no batteries or C02. Shoots flying color .50 caliber, non-toxic, biodegradable, water-soluble paintballs. If you want twice the fun of the Pistol Splat, go for the Magnum Splat! The unique dual-feed system, the Magnum Splat holds two times the ammo for two times the fun. Youll have non-stop action while the other guys will be reloading again and again!

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  • Eyewear
  • Wipe clean target
  • 20-Pack .50 caliber Flying Colors Paintballs
  • Flying Colors paintballs are water soluble and non-toxic.
    Price: 21.99


  • Silver 3 1/4" medium throwing star
    Silver 3 1/4" medium throwing star
    Price: 1.99


    Throwing Star by the dozen - Silver
    Silver 3 1/4" medium size throwing stars. Each throwing star has 4 points and weighs 1.3 oz. The throwing star has a two etched dragons facing eachother in the center of the throwing star.
    Price: 24.99


    Stun Master 500,000 Volt Stun Baton
    A stun baton is a self defense device which disrupts the message the brain sends to the voluntary muscles. Simply touching an attacker with a stun baton for three to five seconds will deliver a high voltage shock causing loss of balance and muscle control, confusion, and disorientation bringing him to his knees and making him incapable of further aggressive activity. Full recovery takes about five to ten minutes and there is no permanent harm. It measures 18 inches long so it will keep you at a safe distance from your attacker. You can defend yourself by hitting with the baton or touching an attacker with its end. If the attacker attempted to grab the baton he would also get shocked because the top half of the shaft is also "hot". At 500,000 volts this is the highest voltage stun baton available. Designed without a safety switch for quick use. Requires two 9 volt batteries. Note: Please use Energizer batteries as others are usually too large for battery compartment.
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    US 1850 Field Officer's Sword
    This collection of Civil War era Sabres represents some of the most popular and iconic swords used during the conflict. Most feature leather wrapped handles with high quality guards cast in brass. Several of the carbon steel blades are etched with �C.S.A� or �U.S.� designations and steel scabbards are included. A must for any Civil War enthusiast. Specifications: Overall length: 42� Weight: 2lb 14oz Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 104.99


    Foot Officer's Sword
    This collection of Civil War era Sabres represents some of the most popular and iconic swords used during the conflict. Most feature leather wrapped handles with high quality guards cast in brass. Several of the carbon steel blades are etched with �C.S.A� or �U.S.� designations and steel scabbards are included. A must for any Civil War enthusiast. Specifications: Overall length: 39� Weight: 2lb 9oz Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 104.99


    Naval Boarding Cutlass w/Sheat
    The Cutlass (SN610) is a standard naval pattern, though it has become a firm favorite of the re-enactors of a piratical nature. The brass basket is distinctive and balances the 24 �� blade well. A leather scabbard and belt frog are included. Specifications: Overall length: 36 1/4� Weight: 2lbs 6oz Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 124.99


    Confederate Cavalry Officer's Sword
    The Confederate Cavalry Officer�s Sword (SNA15) replicates the model carried by Confederate General Joseph Shelby. The initials CS are cast into the handguard, with C.S.A.etched into the tempered carbon steel blade. The black-finished steel scabbard has brass fittings. MEASUREMENTS: OVERALL LENGTH: 38 1/2 WEIGHT: 2lbs 11oz
    Price: 104.99


    Civil War Trooper's Sword
    The Civil War Trooper�s Sword (SNA17) is typical of swords issued to troops on both sides of the conflict. This economy sword features a fullered carbon steel blade, wooden grip with a spiral wire wrap and a steel scabbard. Specifications: Overall length: 40� Weight: 2lbs 10oz Specs will vary slightly from piece to piece.
    Price: 99.99


     

    War

    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]

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    Main article: History of war

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    "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]

    [edit] Background

    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.

     

     

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