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US and the Iraq War

fear. With the terrorist attacks of September 11th, everything changed - literally. No longer can one simply walk through an air...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Cold War Intelligence and Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky

writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...

Peter Grose's Operation Rollback

onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Second World War and Nursing

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

1796 'Farewell Address' of President George Washington

of this model paper is to point out that there is no way to avoid foreign entanglements and the War of 1812 is the most likely exa...

Americans on the Homefront and the Impact of the Second World War

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Relations Between Russia and the United States and the Continuing Effects of the Cold War

Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...

Middle East Development and Democratization

of power and authoritarianism as it relates to the issues surrounding the Iraq war, a battle that looks toward setting a precedent...

US Involvement in the Iraq War

is, the United States (and the United Nations), has given Iraq years to comply with regulations which quite clearly they have no i...

Iraqi War and Its Impacts on the U.S. Economy

however, continue to argue that the economy will be boosted as a result of the war. The purpose of this paper is to analyze each ...

Gulf War, U.S., Iraq, and a Contrast of Ideologies

of the group. Functionalists believe that every state has the universal right to provide those elements which will strike a balanc...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

US Wartime Uses of Propaganda

using the press in this manner, some excellent examples remain which show what media savvy can make the difference. Consider that ...

Sun Tzu and the War in Iraq

in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...

Response to Security Council Statement that US War in Iraq is Illegal

treaties such that an "affected party" can take action. The U.S. argued that it was specially affected because it was quite likely...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

United Nations And U.S. National Security Policy

the UN when seeking their approval to go into Iraq. For more than a decade, Iraq had refused to meet the mandates of the UN Securi...