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Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

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...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

The Gulf War: Strategy and Operations

plan the air campaign ("Chapter VI-The Air Campaign," 2007). The air campaign was something exciting as it was a relatively new st...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

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

Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women As Seen Through the Eyes of Euripides

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

Harris: Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches

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

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

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

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

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

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

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

Can We Win the "War on Terror"?

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

World War II Artists & Posters

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

Tom Paine: Common Sense

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

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

World War II Artists & Posters

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

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

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

Rethinking the War on Drugs

create more problems for the nation. In one respect, people who purchase, sell or use marijuana are put in prison and exposed to...

WWII And The Cold War

This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...

1948 through 1952: Politics Between the U.S. and Japan

There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

American Policy in Japan, 1948-1952

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

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

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 ...