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Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

Star Wars Trilogy and Mythology

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

Terrorism and a 'New Cold War'

but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

American Involvement in the First World War

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

Political Questions Pertaining to Asia

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

Role of Women in WWII/A Research Proposal

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

The Relevance of the Air Campaign During the Gulf War

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

NSC 68's Effects

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

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

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Interview/Living through World War II

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

The Cold War as Compared with the Conflict in Iran

the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...

The Causes of the Persian Wars, 499-404 BCE

Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...

International Law And The War In Iraq

42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Oliver Stone's Films

In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...

Overview of the Battle of New Orleans

troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...

Japanese Americans After World War II

In six pages this paper discusses the social problems associated with the US interment of Japanese Americans during World War II a...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

Labor Unions and War

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...

Welfare System Since the Vietnam War

The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...

First World I Role of Germany

for example seemed to have been swept into a war which it would ultimately lose. But in a sense, Germany can be seen as the aggres...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...