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Rebellion and its Repercussions: the Wars of the Roses

However, Professor Hicks notes there were some distinguishing factors that made these conflicts unique. First, citizens became in...

World War I - A Historical Analysis of the Causes

to oppose a growth of Russian power throughout Europe, made Austrias advance against Serbia materially possible (Document 2 - Germ...

The Australia Support for the War in Terror Following 9/11

disagreement regarding nuclear submarines (Brown and Rayner, 2001). It has also been speculated that the Australia-United States F...

MILITARY FORCES AND WAR ON TERROR

for Al Qaeda (Rogers, 2003). The early war in Afghanistan was fought with sustained air power and a small number of special ground...

THE BOOK OF JOSHUA AND MIRACLE WARFARE

moving forward, Joshua heads up many battles on behalf of the Israelites and, of course, conquered Jericho. Joshua, in short, was ...

World Leaders During WWII

Secretary of the Navy, New York Governor, and President (Whitney, 2012). FDR has been referred to as one of the most powerful ora...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...

First World War and the Use of Railroads

railways were so relatively new that strategists had yet to really utilize their usefulness. With these basic elements in mind the...

Reality: The Things They Carried

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

The War Against Troy

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Torture and the War on Terror

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Freeze Frame: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths' Depiction of the Vietnam War

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

Germany and Her Deliberate Path Towards World War I

of World War I were extremely complex. People, actions, and events merged to result in one of the most traumatic world events of ...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Battle of San Juan

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...

Origins of the First World War

for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...

National Security in a Time of Change

more area than it already occupied. The result was a greater and greater polarization between Russia and the US. By the time Ken...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

After the Cold War, What’s a Soldier to Do

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

Development of Tank Warfare During the First and Second World Wars

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

Second World War and Racial Propaganda

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan and the 'Righteous War' Concept

horse sacrifice contained within The Ramayana. According to Narayans translation, in this ceremonial ritual, "A horse... is set f...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...