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SDI or 'Star Wars'

a fairly recent advertising campaign - this is not your fathers battleground. Ironically, thirteen years after Reagans introducti...

Contributing Factors to the Vietnam War's Outcome

In twenty two pages this paper examines the Vietnam War in an overview of various factors that contributed to its outcome. Fourte...

Prisoners of War During the Vietnam War

In seven pages this paper discusses questions involving Vietnam War POWs and considers if there are still MIAs and POWs being held...

First World War and Global War Sources

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

An Examination of the Cold War and Why It Did Not Result in a Major War

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

Impact of the War in the Persian Gulf War

In thirteen pages Operation Desert Storm is analyzed in terms of its impacts on the US, other countries and leaders in the region,...

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

Second World War and Vietnam War on Film

In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

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...

Herodotus: Reliable And Comprehensive Account Of The Persian Wars?

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

Comparative Analysis of Posters During World War I and World War II

armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Germany and the Effects of the Second World War's Outcome

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

Star Wars' Mythical Power

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

Just War Concept of Thomas Aquinas and the Vietnam War

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

The War of 1812 Was a Necessary War

being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...

Second World War's Kokoda Campaign in Papua, New Guinea

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

Austro Hungarian Empire and First World War's Causative Factors

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

Revolutionary War's Political and Socioeconomic Causes

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Supply, Training, and the Revolutionary War's Battle of Paoli

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

First World War and Gendered War Perspectives

In ten pages this paper examines the concept of warfare in a consideration of the differing views between men and women regarding ...

Vietnam War's Historiography

In eight pages the historical documentation of the Vietnam War is examined. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic

In five pages the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic is analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

World War I and Cause of the War

themselves did not seem to have any wider-ranging political motivations beyond protesting at domestic conditions; certainly they d...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and War's Realities

In seven pages this paper examines the realistic portrayal of war in Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel All Quiet on the...