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

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

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

This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

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...

At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

the French and Indian War-or at least that part of it fought in North America goes by that name. This paper is a first-person narr...

paper properly!...

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...

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

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

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

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

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...

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

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...