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The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Time to Surrender in the War on Drugs?

Mr. Knizely sees three major areas of concern with regard to the Constitution. First, the "war on drugs" violates the 4th Amendmen...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Prussia’s Rise to Power: Seven Years War and Frederick the Great

rulers was growing increasingly bitter. Frederick the Great began his reign at the same time Maria Theresia became the monarch of ...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

The Iroquois War Club

The war club was, and in fact is, a formidable weapon that is associated with the Iroquois in particular. Typically only two to t...

The Just War Theory

the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

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...

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...

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...

Fighting the Vietnam War

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

War In The Congo

groundwork for development in this struggling nation, and further, created a sense of enlightenment where before there was none (...

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...

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 ...

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-...

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...

World War I and Intelligence Uses

This is very important to understand. It is not as if there were cell phones or video cameras around. It was not as if there had b...

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...

Medieval War Tool the Trebuchet

the beam, its attachment point along the beam and the distance of that attachment point from the ground, the weight and position o...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

Achieving Societal Perfection

"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...