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that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed...

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

This research paper explores the topic of "hard war," which was authorized by Lincoln and implemented by Sherman in his March of t...

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...