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Prisoners of War During the Vietnam War

In seven pages this paper discusses questions involving Vietnam War POWs and considers if there are still MIAs and POWs being held...

Star Wars' Mythical Power

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

Post War Propaganda Posters and the Spanish Civil War

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

An Examination of the Cold War and Why It Did Not Result in a Major War

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Supply, Training, and the Revolutionary War's Battle of Paoli

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...

Jill Lepore's The Name of War and King Philip's War

the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the E...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

US Civil War's Turning Points

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Shakespeare’s “Merry War”: Gender Roles in “Twelfth Night” and “Much Ado about Nothing”

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...

Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Crossover Development and George Lucas' 'Star Wars'

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Strategy of "Hard War" and the American Civil War

This research paper explores the topic of "hard war," which was authorized by Lincoln and implemented by Sherman in his March of t...

Four Specific Questions in Military History

This 4 page paper addresses the questions regarding 1. Mao Zedong’s strategy for winning the Chinese revolutionary war? 2. How th...

Argentinian Press Perspectives on the War in the Falkland Islands

landed and took over the island of Thule, which was the main location of the British Antarctic Survey Unit. However, the triggerin...

One Cargo Barge and its Role in the Civil War

was envisioning. One of the more obvious was the fact that supplying an army of this size with all of its operational requirement...

The First American Casualties in the Korean War

Korean War. Unfortunately Task Force Smith was just the opening page of a war that would turn out to be a long and gruesome affair...

First Balkan War and the Ottoman Empire

control.2 Both Bulgaria and Serbia signed a treaty on March 13, 1912 that allocated southern Macedonia to Bulgaria and Macedonia ...

News Coverage of NBC and CBS after the First Gulf War

There were significant similarities and differences in coverage of the peace talks after the first Iraq war. This report compares ...

War According to Thomas Hobbes' Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

In five pages this text by Hobbes is applied to the thesis that war is inevitable. There are no other sources listed....

Realist Perspectives on the Iraq War

In six pages the realist theory and Machiavelli's political influence are examined within the context of the contemporary war with...