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Achieving Societal Perfection

"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Spain and the Impact of the Spanish-American War

Spain erupted in Cuba in 1895, America was not directly involved but they felt a protective need to send reinforcements after the ...

Historical War Role of Technology

a society put all of its resources into technological research so that they could win a war. WWI gave the world better and faster ...

The Punic Wars

of the most important things to note about this conflict is that it each side was forced into a situation where it seemed they had...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

Sociological Contributions of Herbert Spencer

In three pages this essay discusses Spencer's sociological contributions and examines the roles played by morality and war in part...

Post First World War Technology

spurring private industry; both the military and private enterprise then feed each other with information and inspiration. When ...

World War II Film The Best Years of Our Lives

three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. William Wyler was chosen as director, and an award-winning cast was assembled. It should be no...

Animal Characteristics and Ambrose Bierce

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

Persian Gulf War and President George H.W. Bush

In nine pages this paper discusses the presidential power misuse of President George H.W. Bush as it relates to the war in the Per...

Ethnography and Eskimo Essays

In ten pages an ethnographic perspective is offered in an exploration of Fineup Riordin's text which considers the Yup'ik Eskimo c...

First World War and British Air Power

Morrow states, "Initial hesitation need not necessarily have proved damaging: The German government, soon to sponsor one of the m...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

Time to Surrender in the War on Drugs?

Mr. Knizely sees three major areas of concern with regard to the Constitution. First, the "war on drugs" violates the 4th Amendmen...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

First World War and the Use of Railroads

railways were so relatively new that strategists had yet to really utilize their usefulness. With these basic elements in mind the...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Prussia’s Rise to Power: Seven Years War and Frederick the Great

rulers was growing increasingly bitter. Frederick the Great began his reign at the same time Maria Theresia became the monarch of ...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

World War I and Intelligence Uses

This is very important to understand. It is not as if there were cell phones or video cameras around. It was not as if there had b...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

Medieval War Tool the Trebuchet

the beam, its attachment point along the beam and the distance of that attachment point from the ground, the weight and position o...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...