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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...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

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...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

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

Was the Iraq War Illegal?

In 2003 the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. The war was controversial, justified to many of the ele...

CHICAGO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Though the Fair itself was definitely a source of economic growth for Chicago, turning it from its vision as a "frontier town" int...

Iran's Influence on the Cold War in 1979

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

Was the War in Iraq Unnecessary?

Then writer looks at a 2003 article written by Mearsheimer and Walt in the run up to the war. The arguments of the article arguing...

The Modern World Viewed Philosophically

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

Contrasting Views of Karl Marx and Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagrahi must be fearless and always trust his opponent, "for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed...

A Life Examined in Alan Taylor's 'William Cooper's Town'

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Just War and Operation Enduring Freedom

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

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

The Relevance of the Air Campaign During the Gulf War

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

A World Where Money As We Know it Will Be Obsolete

we never seem to have enough of it in our pockets when a particularly critical opportunity for purchase arises. Money in its ioni...

War Beginning, Ending, and the Role of Politicians

In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...

Chapter 9 of Ezra and an Exegetical Analysis of Lines 6 through 15

In five pages this paper provides an exegesis of these lines and examines the lament of Ezra within the context of Christian's ser...

Past, Present, and the Cold War

In eleven pages this paper examines congressional records and presidential papers in a consideration of such Cold War inspired leg...

U.S. Civil War and the Turning Point at the Battle of Gettysburg

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

'Reason as the law of the World' According to Hegel

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

Tobias Wolff's The End of Illusion In Pharaoh's Army

In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...