Essays 601 - 630
of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...
1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...