YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How to Remember the Forgotten War by Stanley Weintraub
Essays 241 - 270
customs, habits, ethos, and lore of a particular profession, in this case, the military" (Blumenson, 2003). Blumenson objects to t...
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
was a region that had known internal war for quite some time and the interference of another nation did not change their culture ...
natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...
happens, the muons take the place of the electrons and a fusion occurs. However, the process is not complete at this point. It is ...
other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...