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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...

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 ...

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...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

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...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

U.S. Civil War and Conscription

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. Civil War in a consideration of the history of conscription or the draft and its decli...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

20th Century Wars and Their Impact Upon the United States

In five pages this paper examines the First and Second World Wars and the wars in Korea and Vietnam in order to determine their so...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Cold War's Rise and Fall

The Cold War's rise and eventual fall is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Cold War Outcome and the Impact of Nuclear Weapons

In five pages this paper discusses how another World War was prevented by the inclusion of nuclear weapons by the Americans and th...

New World Strategies

society and state became victorious." (Fukuyama "page 2"). That victor, as Fukuyama believed were liberal democracy and the resul...

Irrevocable Consequences and Nuclear Destruction

In five pages this report discusses a nuclear war's result regarding radiation contamination and its ecological and biological con...

Student Supplied Readings on Being Human

the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...

Contemporary Warfare and Changes in Ideology

The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...

Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

Military Draft and War With Iraq For and Against

any number of problems with Saudi Arabia and Iran (Thomas, 2003). Even so, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said at that time that Sadda...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

War and Media Coverage

A large part of the success of this program is due to the leadership of one man: Byron Price(Sweeny 2001)....

Australia and Great Britain and Critical Events

be a most applicable means by which to render attack on the enemy; however, what ensued was not so much of a protecting agent as o...

Joseph E. Persico's Roosevelt's Secret War

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

Terrorism and War

war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

The 1950s

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...