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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...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

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...

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

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...

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 ...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...

A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...

naval mission in the Indian Ocean providing fuel to coalition forces in Afghanistan" (Japans opposition to stall war on terror bil...

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...

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

but it soon became apparent to any objective observer that the Versailles Treaty was bound to cause problems. While it may be diff...

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...