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O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

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...

Price Wars

in the long term they may suffer the losses in the sort term, especially if it has the potential of driving another firm pout of t...

Price Wars and Mismanagement

This 3 page paper argues that the primary cause of price wars is mismanagement and that this is why there are so few price wars se...

Comparative Analysis of Posters During World War I and World War II

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

Interview/Living through World War II

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

The Cold War as Compared with the Conflict in Iran

the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...

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...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

Two Vietnam Books

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

International Law And The War In Iraq

42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...

The Causes of the Persian Wars, 499-404 BCE

Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...

The War of 1812 Was a Necessary War

being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

War: Civilians and Soldiers

whats going on" (Kaplan, 2007). Realistically any individual in charge of sending soldiers out must be aware of what is going on....

Causes and Effects of the Cold War

and property and was on the brink of bankruptcy. Only the United States and Soviet Union remained relatively intact. These count...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Impact

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

Vietnam War's Military Operations and the Roles Played by Government Policies and Public Opinion

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

US Society and the Impact of Operation Desert Storm

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

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

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...

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...

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...

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...