SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Significance of Studying Military History

Essays 781 - 810

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...

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)....

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...

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...

Affirmative Action

well known in various affected organizations, it also dominated higher education. There was a claim that because minorities are at...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

Leadership Style/MacArthur & Patton

to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (M...

Satellites: Contribution To Technology

and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...

Human Resource Management: A Comparison Between Civilian and Military Management

warranted, but upon careful examination there are more similarities in military HR and private sector HR than one might think. Fir...

The Fields of Friendly Strife: The Military Strategy of General Robin Olds

MacArthur obviously recognized that the teamwork that is critical on the football field is just as critical in military strategy. ...

Functions of Public Relations

functions for organizations in facilitating establishing and maintaining a positive public image, but it also functions for societ...

Women on the Front Lines of Combat

In 1990 that number stood at 13 percent (Willens, 1996). In 2006 it was 15 percent (United States Census Bureau, 2006). As menti...

Savings Plans for Military Families

that result in long separations, all of which put a strain on family finance (NASD, 2006). Military families "are already aware th...

Military Technology and New Personal Defense Weaponry

of the M16s with the M4 which is a newer carbine (Cox, 2007). "The Army started buying M4s in the mid-1990s but mainly reserved th...

Life in the Military

must be made precisely. Guns are cleaned. Everything is done precisely right. They do things like their lives depend on it, becaus...

Reconstruction Efforts and Fire and Emergency Medical Services in Iraq

information necessary to the reconstruction effort. While addressing base emergency services problems will, hopefully, be...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Why a Draft Should be Implemented (Policy Argument)

there are many opposed to the concept. Yet, ironically, it is for that very reason why the proposal must be accepted. That is, the...

Reading: The Rule of Law and Military Tribunals

the most immoral atrocities ever committed, but it was not enough for the Allies to condemn them morally: "... this was to be a le...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL AND IMPACT ON MILITARY RECRUITMENT

(Herek, 2008). As a result, by 1992, the Government Accounting Office pointed out that close to 17,000 men and women were discharg...

Resources, Military Commanders and Political Leadership and the Civil War

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

U.S. Military Life in Afghanistan

foreign troops" in Afghanistan at present (Watson, 2008). This brings into play many regions and lifestyles, but also clearly invo...