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The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Comparing the Gulf War and Vietnam

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

War: Civil War, Iraq, Yugoslavia

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

War by Luigi Pirandello

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

Ford: “Michael’s War”

This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Michael’s War,” about the IRA. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

The War of 1812

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

The War in Iraq

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

Why Do We Fight Wars?

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...

Pre Second World War Policy of the US

opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Overview of the 'Just War' Theory

to be an an armed attack that is being directed at a peaceful society (Raymond, 2005). The second type is the development of any i...

WHY THE U.S. JOINED WORLD WAR I

1917. The overt, and simple, explanation for Americas entry into the European conflict was the May, 1915 sinking of the Bri...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

"The War Drags On" by Donovan

This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...

First World War and Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who wa...

Review and Summary of Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller's Charlie Company (What Vietnam Did to Us)

In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....

English Civil War and Blaming James I and Charles I

In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

A Review of The American Privateers by Donald Chidsey

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

A Letter to a Senator Involving Iraq War

the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...