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that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

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...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...

states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

under French rule" (Vietnam, 2007). The French named the colony "Cochinchina" (Vietnam, 2007). It took them 16 more years to bring...

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

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...

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...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...