YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Essays 661 - 690
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
involves the American Dream. These people all have a dream that they wish to achieve, and for the most part their dreams involve m...
in the story and perhaps the most like Hemingway himself. He is a man seeking comfort and simplicity and meaning while lost in dep...
While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
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...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
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...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...
In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...
This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...
themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...
to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...