Essays 631 - 660
of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...
that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...
The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...
The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...
The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...
order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...
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...
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...
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...
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...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...
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...
1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...
rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...
the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...
to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...
Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...
some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...