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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...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

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...

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...

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...

The Repercussions of the “Boston Massacre”

the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...

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 ...

Leon Trotsky

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

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

Resources, Military Commanders and Political Leadership and the Civil War

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

WAR, INEVITABILITY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

position and influence and limited resources (Watson, 2008). Philosopher Sun Tzu regarded conflict (in the form of military action...

Is the War in Iraq Worth It?

"The war in Iraq has been the top issue each time Gallup has asked this question going back to April 2006" (Carroll, 2007). Howeve...

Bhagavad Gita on War and Peace

battlefield, Arjuna could see many of his kin on the opposing side. Overcome with emotion, he resists engaging in the conflict un...

Essays on National Security and International Relations

going to manage it through the NSC then he will need to choose a "robust staff" almost immediately upon taking office.2 Worley als...

Public Policy, Strategic Advantages and Environmental Issues: Considering the Gulf War

side a clear winner, but with Iraq heavily in debt, a debt that Kuwait refused to forgive (Rushefsky, 2002). In addition, Iraq and...

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Considering the Maya

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...