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Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

The Gulf War: Strategy and Operations

plan the air campaign ("Chapter VI-The Air Campaign," 2007). The air campaign was something exciting as it was a relatively new st...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

Can We Win the "War on Terror"?

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

Japan’s Position on International Issues

naval mission in the Indian Ocean providing fuel to coalition forces in Afghanistan" (Japans opposition to stall war on terror bil...

Woodward's "State Of Denial"

a war that has the United States too close to detrimental watershed. The integrity of a man like Woodward (2006) - who would plac...

Tom Paine: Common Sense

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

Events Leading to Operation Desert Storm

the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

1948 through 1952: Politics Between the U.S. and Japan

There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

Rethinking the War on Drugs

create more problems for the nation. In one respect, people who purchase, sell or use marijuana are put in prison and exposed to...

WWII And The Cold War

This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...

1991's War in the Persian Gulf

2005). This was clearly illegal and those in the Middle East worried that he would try to take over more nations. Certainly, it wa...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Politics and Bananas

much on Del Monte or Dole. Still, where we can find it in the literature, well mention it in this paper. How Chiquita Built an Ind...

Unjust Iraq War

political behavior, inasmuch as "the Constitution is very clear about where the power to make law resides" (OKeefe et al, 1997), t...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). One of the most powerf...

Was the Cold War Caused by Nuclear Weapons?

A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Foreign Policy Between the United States and South Korea

and U.S.S.R. relationships worsened so too did the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships be...

'The Mutilation' Known as the Mexican American War

Santa Anna had been dictator prior to the war, but was forced into exile with the Gadsden Purchase. The military was fairly perma...

Pros and Cons of Detaining Suspected Terrorists

detainees captured in the "War on Terror" to civilian detention centers and affording them with all of the due process rights that...