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Essays 1411 - 1440
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...
stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...
realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...
as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...
first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...
consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...
1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...
personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...
to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
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...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...
his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...
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...
the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...
A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...