YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why Nations Go to War by Stoessinger
Essays 661 - 690
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
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 ...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
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...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
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...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
In five pages this research essay discusses the Gulf War in terms of Iraqi and United States' policies with military 'grand strate...
In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...
timeframe or the conflict. Both clearly make the point that a person is forever changed by war. Interestingly, both use similar ...
A four page overview of this interesting time in world history. The writer oulines the societal factors in play and historical un...
In more than eight pages various English history essays are presented and include such topics as the Wars of the Roses, The Hundre...
In five pages the third and fourth of the wars between the Israelis and Arabs better known as the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars are ...
In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...
In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...
and womanizing, punctuated only by bouts of warfare. It would be inaccurate to say that Frederick really believed in the war at ...