Essays 361 - 390
book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...
bring him to the point that he is no longer a threat. The country with the best resources, i.e. the country that has structured i...
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
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...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
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...
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...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
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...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
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...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
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...
of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...
In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...