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IRAQ AND VIETNAM WARS: A COMPARISON

to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...

Japanese Triumph V Japanese Defeat

At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...

Armor Development

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

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

The Role of Alcibiades in Determining the Peloponnesian War Outcome

money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...

The Bombing Campaign in World War II

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

Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, and War Leadership, Perceptions, Judgments

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

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

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

The Social Impacts of the American Revolution

of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...

Grand Illusion of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

Finding Peace in a Culture of War

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

Was Genocide Committed During the Gulf Wars?

Patriarch of Babylon; Mar Raphael I Bidawid (Kapica, 1991). The way judgments are made on actions may be highly subjective, but in...

The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

Star Wars Trilogy and Mythology

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Terrorism and a 'New Cold War'

but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Political Questions Pertaining to Asia

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

Revolutionary War's Political and Socioeconomic Causes

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

Role of Women in WWII/A Research Proposal

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

NSC 68's Effects

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

The War in Iraq and The Iliad

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

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

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...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

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