Essays 961 - 990
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...
1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...
plan the air campaign ("Chapter VI-The Air Campaign," 2007). The air campaign was something exciting as it was a relatively new st...
government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...
to be disappointed. He also humanizes Scipio for his readers, since this is a man who accomplished great things and is still not w...
in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...
the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...
his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...
attorney. And yet we have seen this Administration lock suspects up at Guantanamo Bay without charging them, and without allowing ...
Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...
had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...
he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...
The war club was, and in fact is, a formidable weapon that is associated with the Iroquois in particular. Typically only two to t...
the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...
north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...
called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...
what experts believe about the relationship between war and changes in the climate caused by global warming. The results of this l...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...
tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...