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The Detriments of Isolation

become even more out of control as there are fewer eyes watching them. A well known study done at Stanford University tested behav...

Aviation’s Impact Upon the U.S. Military and Economy During the Vietnam War

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

How Economic Considerations and Doctrine Influence Military Innovation

tactical assumptions as unrealistic (Murray and Millett 1996, 29). Instead of composing a doctrine for the future, which would ha...

The Importance of Customs and Courtesies

regimented. The rules that come from the military are expected to be obeyed to the letter and not just as a part of an optional cu...

MILITARY CUSTOMS AND COURTESIES: ARE THEY NECESSARY?

basics behind any kind of military courtesy is that good manners and respect toward others are paramount in any relationship withi...

Criteria for Armed Intervention

oil open to the West. If true, these are despicable reasons for armed intervention; they are also obviously wrong. But not all int...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)

United States (2002). The Department of Defense makes the test materials and associated content available at no cost (Baker, 2002)...

Military Chef: Background and Future

military chefs from "Switzerland, Germany, the U.K., Sweden, and five other countries, all gunning for the title of top military c...

Computers: The Battlegrounds of the Future

and other highly specialized tasks. Information technology and the computers and global network that bind all three together, in ...

Same-Sex Behavior And Attitudes In Ancient Greece And Rome: Providing Help Dealing With Gays In The Military In Modern America

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

Cyber Intrusions and the US Military

are not exempt from this unauthorized access and sometimes the results can be deadly. Epstein (2008) reports that battleground co...

Moral Standing and the Instigation of War

up an age-old question, particularly if the two groups are in another country: should a nation risk its own troops to get in the m...

Persian Gulf War and Its Impacts

ability to both deploy and to manufacture weapons of mass destruction (Newman and Mcree, 1998). This strategy was influenced by a...

Military Action, Tactical Intelligence, and Speed

by forty percent, by 1981 the TR-1A (a tactical reconnaissance version) was delivered to the U.S. Airforce and by 1992 all TR-1s a...

Enemy Evaluation and Military Strategy

that in-depth understanding we were able to access strengths and weaknesses to a degree that we have never been able to accomplish...

Importance of Military Diplomacy

These men must be well grounded in a number of academic as well as practical areas of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Military ...

Insurgent Threats, Technology Uses, and Spatial Analysis

pattern analysis mapping software, military officials can predict sites and the likely times of insurgent attack (Grau, 2004). Ano...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Civilian Life v. Military Life

many businesses have embraced the concept as well, or at least have used it to an extent. The contemporary workplace has within it...

Military Defense Transformation and Conceptual Unity

In a paper consisting of three pages conceptual unity and its challenges to the military defense transformation of the Middle East...

The Embracing Defeat of John Dower

more familiar, suggesting that the people are not in control and the dictatorships is military style. In other words, force is use...

Purpose of a Military Chain of Command

chain of command and elements of command -- especially as it pertains to the Marine Corps. The current military organizati...

1,500 Acre San Franciscan Presidio Site

Cultural resources are legally classified as part of the California environment and consists of archaeological sites as well as th...

Uncle Sam and Juggling Two Wars

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

Military and the Importance of Uniformity

(bringing many groups together as one). Uniformity in the military is hardly a new concept. In fact, as author John Keegan (1976...

Military Coalition Between New Zealand and the United States

coalitions, even with countries not in full support of its military objectives. Robinson writes that "New Zealand has been an acti...

Deciding to Take Military Action in Kosovo

House was adopting a deliberately false perception on the likely progress of the conflict in order to further a specific agenda. B...

'Uniforms in the Closet' by Jennifer Egan

This means that they are obliged to live a totally celibate life while serving, or participate in a loose "underground network" of...