Essays 571 - 600
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
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 ...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...
p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...
As a result, the effects and meaning of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; havin...
already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...
does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...
Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...
NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...
are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...
of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
be a most applicable means by which to render attack on the enemy; however, what ensued was not so much of a protecting agent as o...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...