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Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

Before and After the Second World War

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...

History of Land War Strategies

ideal for battle. In the late Middle Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the c...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

Overview of On the Beach

that a the protagonist will meet his or her demise, and adventure novels too often will show men and women risking their lives in ...

Appraisal of General Douglas MacArthur

like Patton, even when there was nothing left to save but his own life, he still considered all others, as well as the nations int...

Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

Post Second World War and Global History

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Vietnam War and Individual Actions

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

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-...

War In The Congo

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

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 ...

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...

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...

Ideology and Technology of the Second World War

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

World Wars and Changes in Technology

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

'Flanking in a Price War' Summarized

must be narrowly defined and must not deviate from the boundaries given it at the outset. Of course approaching a study in this m...

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...

Iraqi War Perspective

needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of politics; however, it can also be contended how there...

Leon Trotsky

Davidovich Bronshtein). Martov "won the vote ... but Lenin was unwilling to accept the result" (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein). He and...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

A First Person Insight into the Days Leading Up to the Civil War

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...