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Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

War Peace and the Presidency by Henry Paoluccis

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Women's Opportunities in Great Britain During and After World War II

woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Vietnam War Failure of the United States Observed

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

'War on Drugs' and its Political Benefits

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

19th and 20th Century Naval Power

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

Uncle Sam and Juggling Two Wars

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

New Peace Movements in the United States

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

Analysis of US Antiwar Organizations and American Peace Movements from September 11 2001 until March 20, 2003

military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

Government's Policies on War and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...

Factors Leading to the Revolutionary War

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

Bush Conservativism Dangers and What it Means to Be an American

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

Michael A. Ledeen's The War Against the Terror Master

truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...

The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

Waging Modern War by General Wesley Clark

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

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...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

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 ...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...