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US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

17th and 18th Century European Military Education

In twelve pages European military officer training during this time period is examined in a discussion of informal British approac...

US Loss in Vietnam

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

National Defense, Peacekeeping, and the Military of the United States

an important historical role in protecting U.S. interest both at home and abroad and will inevitably do so in our future as well....

Recruitment Techniques in the U.S. Military Since the Civil War

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Government of Chile's Formation by Politics

parties were displaced from circles of power - the only time in the history of that country that it happened (Valenzuela, 2001)....

British Soldier and Statesman Sir Winston Churchill

As Keegan (2001) points out, he gained great public respect for his writing, winning the Nobel...

Military Marketing Strategies

tell their audience and to offer in the way of recruiting facts. It would be more effective to market separately so that the publ...

Air Force and the Drug Ecstasy

coupled with physical exertion, something that has been responsible for a number of deaths (1997). Long term effects of this dru...

Landings at Normandy During World War II

movement, and it is notable that all were able to maintain the requisite high level of security in the time leading up to the inva...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

The U.S. Invasion of Iraq is Justified by the U.N. Security Council Resolutions 660, 678 and 1441

Iraq refuses to comply with its obligation to implement resolution 660 (1990)" as well as other resolutions that had been passed i...

Military Leadership and Robert D. Kaplan’s Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

that military action can never be without cost or loss of life, but some costs must be paid. Military leaders must have an acute ...

George Brown and Canadian Defense Policies

American Revolution never to tax its colonies, which were "the only safe sources of resources and the only secure markets" in Brit...

TRICARE: A POLICY ANALYSIS AND REALITY CHECK

allowing the Department of Defense to provide civilian health care to dependents of military service members, TRICARE today has di...

Challenges of the U.S. Marines Recruiting Office

terrorists. They want to do something for their country. While it may be true that some potential recruits want to serve their c...

Don’t Fall Asleep Riding Shotgun

"low-beam lights also was out," forcing Smith to use his high beams "sparingly so as not to blind oncoming traffic. When the trail...

Airbus Case Study

has been the dominant supplier of aircraft. It was only in 1970 when Airbus was formed that a potential long-term competitor becam...

Vietnam Combat and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

Exhibiting Social Deviance

glared and showed signs of impatience but said nothing. Perhaps a more direct approach would draw more direct response. Th...

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...

Second World War and Nazi Germany

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Augusto Pinochet III

the legislature and the judicial system as well as the government (Bindman, 1989). When general Pinochet entered England in Octob...

Turkey and its Nation Creation

forces occupied Izmir and fanned out into western Anatolia (2001). It was only a matter of time before Turkey would become an ind...

2003 Iraq War

dismantle Iraqs chemical and biological weapons production? Should Hussein be removed? What are the consequences? Would the U.S....

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

Royal Artillery and Infantry Skills

of various different military sections as well as on the infantry skills of the troops who gathered information for analysis: ther...

Analyzing Noam Chomsky's Views on the United States and the World

still American-made. The Chomsky considers that Israel is more and offshore U.S. military base than a country in its own right --...

U.S. Miltary Public and American Foreign Policy

There is no question that a significant number of tax dollars have been used to militarize the Middle East, in addition to the pay...