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Educating Today’s G.I.

group of highly trained people who gather together in fortifications barricaded against the enemy. Now that picture is changing, a...

The Officer in the U.S. Military

challenging and intriguing (where else would a 19-year old have the responsibility of keeping an airplane flying?); and there is t...

Is the UN Effective?

again determined that something had to be done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 194...

Clausewitz and Modern Warfare in Afghanistan

bring him to the point that he is no longer a threat. The country with the best resources, i.e. the country that has structured i...

Do Not Underestimate the Opposition: The Lasting Lesson of the Tet Offensive

shifting in the direction of the Communists. However, the brutal reality revealed during the intense fighting of the Tet Offensiv...

Strategic Engagement in China: PACOM's Role

role as a single player upon the global stage in the 21st century, certain questions must be asked, especially in regards to areas...

Military Suicide Rates: Why Are They on the Rise?

sources indicate that suicides within the military are becoming increasingly common. The motivating factors for such a fact are qu...

Why a Strong Military is Necessary

fashioned or silly. But it is the dedication to the service of ones country that keeps the United States strong. This paper is wri...

Stressors in Organizations: Coping Strategies and the Abuse of Power

United States Army (or any military institution for that matter) involves a great deal of stress. The stress in these positions co...

Influential Leadership In The Military

been guilty of material breach of its obligations -- which had already been confirmed -- but to disarm the weapons of mass destruc...

Origins, Practices, and Beliefs of Wicca and Military Impact of Wiccan Followers

Wiccans typically meet with a coven that usually has no more than 13 members (US Army Chaplains Handbook: Excerpt on Wicca). It i...

The Military, Respect and Discipline

on earth, and could not function without discipline. This paper considers the necessity for discipline and respect in the military...

Germany After World War I: Strong Economy and Weak Military - Britain’s Hope

The writer argues that at the end of the First World War, it was Britain’s desire to have Germany rendered weak militarily so that...

Influences on the Military: William Mitchell

The influence of William Mitchell on the creation of the U.S. Air Force is explorted in this 3-page paper. There are 6 sources....

Spartan Military Training In "Gates Of Fire"

thrust him into the depths of rigorous and ever-demanding scenarios that were the foundation of what it required to make him a sol...

Modernizing Military Logistics: The U.S. Marine Corps

instance, a unit might have a surplus of something that another unit needed, but the second had no way to locate the items (Malykh...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

The Military Draft Should Not Be Reinstated

...," 2007). There has been a debate on this issue for some time. President Bush generally opposes the draft concept, but people a...

Military Policy Decisions After Vietnam in Light of Frederick Kagan's Views

the U.S. military after Vietnam. The author notes that there is currently a volunteer force, which is quite different from the dr...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Cinema and Military Technology

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of nuclear warfare as it has evolved in films including Braveheart, Godzilla, Dr...

Japanese Military Tactics in the Battle of Okinawa

In five pages this paper discusses how the Japanese employed the infantry during this battle and the influence it had on the U.S. ...

Langemarck and the First Military Example of Chemical Warfare

rest of time. The horrors of gas warfare had never been seen on a battlefield until 1915. The Germans were the first to use gas bu...

Military and Political Reasons for the 1949 Defeat of the Chinese Nationalists by the Chinese Communists

In twelve pages this paper examines the reasons behind the 1949 defeat of Chiang Kai shek's Chinese Nationalists by Mao's Communis...

Military State, Individual Freedom and Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

In five pages this paper examines the sociological aspects of this novel in its assertion that without responsibility equality, in...

Gulf War Military Strategies by Iraq and the United States

In eight pages this paper examines the Gulf War strategies of each combatant in a consideration of security issues and decision ou...

Military Soap Opera of the M1 Abrahms' Tank

The use of PGMs (precision guided missiles) against the Israeli tanks (supplied by the U.S.), prompted production halts and more ...

Arguing Against Forced Military Vaccinations for Anthrax

In twenty two pages this paper argues against the U.S. Department of Defense's position that requires all armed forces personnel t...