Essays 2491 - 2520
not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...
arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...
noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...
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...
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
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...
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...
his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...
in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...
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...
personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...
to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...
forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...
consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...
be narrowly defined and must not deviate from the boundaries given it at the outset. Of course approaching a study in this manner...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...