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and that at each stage--as people invent new ways to communicate and manage information-we become in fact a different species. The...

In five pages this report examines 1990's The Competitive Advantage of Nations written by Harvard Business School Professor Michae...

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

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...

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...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

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...

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

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 ...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

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...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

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...

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

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

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