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The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Realism in O’Brien’s Works

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

followed by inflation and then a decline in the past as well as currency depreciation. This indicates that there may still be op...

Why the West Is Losing the Wars in the Middle East

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

A Review of the Political Strategies of Robert S. McNamara

2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...

Joseph E. Persico's Roosevelt's Secret War

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

Politics of the Cold War

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

The 1950s

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

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...

Vietnam Period Historical Themes in Ron Kovics' Autobiography Born On The Fourth Of July

home. Your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave" (Kovic PG). That Kovic was no different than any other red-...

Military Draft and War With Iraq For and Against

any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...

Arnold Isaacs' Vietnam Shadows

Isaacs states that shadows haunt those who did fight in Vietnam because the stories that no one wanted to hear about their war con...

European Changes Following the First and Second World Wars

As a result, the effects and meaning of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; havin...

The Peloponnesian War and Cold War Parallels

argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...

War and its Impact

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

World War I, Fascism, Nazism, and the Causes of World War II

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...

The 9 Years War of 1688 to 1697 and Policies of Great Britain and Fance

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

Brazil and Civil Wars

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

Roles of South Korea, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States in Korea's Imperialism

the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...

The Causative Factors Relating to the Second World War

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

Inevitability of the Cold War

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...

'War on Drugs' and its Negative Societal Impact

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

Architectural Analysis of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War" (Vietnam Veterans Memoria...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...