YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 1921 - 1950
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...
victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...
enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...
meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...
sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...
In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....
economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...
woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which ...
kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...
to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...
mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...
a war that has the United States too close to detrimental watershed. The integrity of a man like Woodward (2006) - who would plac...
is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...
A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...
but it soon became apparent to any objective observer that the Versailles Treaty was bound to cause problems. While it may be diff...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...
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...
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....
no political science degree is required to understand the theory and ideology behind the assertions of this author. There is a we...
Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...
as well, however. South Korea had been in favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of...
plan the air campaign ("Chapter VI-The Air Campaign," 2007). The air campaign was something exciting as it was a relatively new st...
to be disappointed. He also humanizes Scipio for his readers, since this is a man who accomplished great things and is still not w...
the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...
his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...