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Essays 241 - 270
crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
we mean by monetary policy, as it is common for this to become confused with fiscal policy. Monetary policy is the way in which th...
organizational design. From this perspective, organizations are viewed as systems constructed to achieve goals (Freeman, 1999). ...
are at the mercy of todays inflated costs due to how large a role travel plays in their jobs. To decrease usage would mean to suf...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...