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A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

War and Noncombatants

In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...

Foreign Policy Shifts of Korea and China

Chinese international policy affects Korea. As far as China is concerned, foreign policy had changed a bit since the Korean War. C...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

Europe and Its Steps Toward Minimizing War Chances

fronts if our own national security is to be preserved. While the EU is presently regarded as a friend to the U.S., history testi...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Just War Against Terror by Jean Bethke Elshtain

no political science degree is required to understand the theory and ideology behind the assertions of this author. There is a we...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

Post 1990 Iraq War Time Line

Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...

1950 to 1951 Time line of the Korean War

as well, however. South Korea had been in favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of...

Inevitability of the Cold War

the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

Waging Modern War by General Wesley Clark

"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...

3 Predictions Regarding the World After the Cold War

stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...

4 Questions on Political Science Answered

realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Confucius and Homer

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War

first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

Questions Involving Foreign Policy of the Cold War

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

Iraq War Coverage in UK's The Guardian and The New York Times Compared

condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

U.S. Civil War and 'Copperheads'

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

Analyzing LBJ's March 31, 1968 Televised Speech

search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Post First World War Political Controversy Over Unemployment

If we look at the economic output of the country during this period the GDP does fall significantly with the consumption per head ...

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...