1000 Search Results for Military History
Post-World War II Japan: A Nation in Transition
Devastated by the Allies in World War II, Japan has emerged as one of the world's most economically and technologically advanced societies today. Some observers have suggested that the "Japanese miracl Continue Reading...
Main topic Maintain Air Superiority Logistics.Military operations have become a contentious and polarizing issue of late. The primary reason for this is due to globalization. Many countries are now more interconnected than even. One element that impa Continue Reading...
WW1
RUSSIA
In 1917 Russia suffered two revolutions, which resulted in a drastic change of leadership. Tsarist Russia became Lenin's Soviet Russia and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed shortly thereafter in March 1918 with Germany. The treaty g Continue Reading...
He also contends that guerilla warfare is not a tactic that is practiced without discipline or structure. The structure and adherence to rules or laws, as Guevara, suggests, are elements that directly contribute to the efficacy of guerilla warfare a Continue Reading...
Legacy of Vietnam
George Herring was the professor of history and the chairperson of the Department of History at the University of Kentucky with several publications at his record. He is considered to be one of the nation's leading experts on the V Continue Reading...
" There is a more calm feeling to his description. This is not to say that the author was portraying war as being a patriotic act, but the author was not as graphical in his describing what the soldiers were seeing and going through. The reader is mo Continue Reading...
Biggest Decision" (Hiroshima)
"The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb" presents a number of nuanced reasons as to why President Truman ultimately gave the order for the atomic bombs dropped onto the Japanese cities of Hiroshima an Continue Reading...
"Used, manipulated," and "violated" was one veteran's assessment of his experience in being drafted and serving in the military (Terry 55). However, others became career soldiers, such as Sergeant Major Edgar Huff. Still others felt a sense of energ Continue Reading...
The Romanticism of Goya's work is shown in the way that it is openly partisan and emotional -- it lacks the clean lines of David's painting and thus make the figures seem more worthy of pathos, more real as subjects to the viewer, even though the r Continue Reading...
Neutralizing the Valley
The Valley Campaigns of 1864 were operations and battles during the American Civil War, which occurred in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from May to October 1864 (Wikipedia 2005). The opposing forces in these battles were Continue Reading...
British in Northern Ireland
The British Empire had been one of the greatest in the history of humankind but the years following the Second World War saw a period of decolonization and the rise of regional conflicts as a result. In some former coloni Continue Reading...
Invention of Gun Powder and the Impact it Had on the Chinese Society and Warfare
The invention of gunpowder was driven by the quest for unending life. Gunpowder, however, ended up being more or less a death potion, responsible for the development of Continue Reading...
Ability of USA to Counter terror
DHS and enhancement of Special Operations Forces structure
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 proscribed the use of military in civilian law enforcement. Currently, there are terrorists who are born and bread within the Un Continue Reading...
Comitatus Act
What does the creation of the DHS do to enhance Special Operations Forces Structure?
The establishment of the DHS led to the largest reorganization in the federal government since 1948. This resulted in various agencies sharing more Continue Reading...
Robert McCollough: Experiences from the past, pedagog for the future.
An onlooker into the courses taught by this professor would be surprised and little confused as to Robert McCollough's style. Robert strives to know each of his students individua Continue Reading...
Would observational field research efforts contribute data for your course research project?
Field research could be conducted in a specific context where military drones are used. Here, the research could directly observe the manner in which drone Continue Reading...
Sociological Cultural Opinions
Jane Elliot's Blue Eyed/Brown Eyed Study
From viewing A Class Divided, reasonable personal impressions of Jane Elliot and her approach are that she was a courageous, pioneering educator who devised a lesson with an ap Continue Reading...
DOTMLPF system of analysis provides defense leaders of the 21st century a holistic interpretation of today's battlefield by identifying and grouping the most important factors into an understandable and complete model. Doctrine, organization, trainin Continue Reading...
Not surprisingly, this is a book in which the major themes are not political acuity and respect for the common good but are of an arrogant and willful deception, neglect, political infighting, and an apparently systemic betrayal of public trust . In Continue Reading...
Rather, the Union argues, Washington was ill-informed in its preparations for the campaign. Furthermore, the paper condemns Washington for seeking to force the removal of the Modocs from their native country in which they co-exist successfully with Continue Reading...
By the end of the war, over 19 million American women had left the kitchen and gone to work in factories, but Haak's mother was not among them. She did help coordinate a campaign to send letters and cookies to soldiers from the farmhouse in Wiscons Continue Reading...
If anything, the fact that ordinary civilian students proved capable of such conduct on other civilians, even without the psychological stresses of a wartime combat zone and genuinely hostile prisoners, suggests that the risk of similar abuse in gen Continue Reading...
National Security Council or NSC was created and established by the National Security Act of 1947 (The White House 2006). Later, it incorporated the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 and placed in the Executive Office of the President as part Continue Reading...
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contracts
Why do the differences between Grant and Lee receive more extended treatment than the similarities? Why are the similarities discussed last?
The United States, at Appomattox, had just suffered a profound rend in Continue Reading...
American Politics
Historically, the significance of the executive branch has increased during periods of war, crisis and economic turmoil, while the legislative branch has assumed greater responsibility during peaceful reprieves and ostensibly stabl Continue Reading...
War is a necessary and inevitable. The question of whether it is justified is dependent on the conditions of each war individually, but the necessity and inevitability of armed conflict among human societies has been demonstrated consistently through Continue Reading...
Civil War of Northern Aggression
Is the Term Accurate?
The Civil war has been one of the most controversial topics in the history of United States. Where it has been given many names like War Between the States, the War of the Rebellion and the War Continue Reading...
rules of engagement established in the war against the Vietnamese by the United States of America. It highlights the way those who engaged in the war on the U.S. side perceived those restrictions starting from the top political leadership to the sol Continue Reading...
The book gives a good account on behavior of different personalities; soldiers, generals and politicians and how they behave in a given scenario of certain win or a setback. How they readjust and motivate people around them, inspire them to do more Continue Reading...
American foreign policy change from 1940 to the present?
Before the 20th century, the U.S. had a strong tradition of isolationism and non-interventionism. Beginning with American participation in World War I and continuing with its involvement in W Continue Reading...
Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier
In his memoir A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin recounts his experiences fighting in the Revolutionary War as a private, providing a view of the war not usually seen in histories dealin Continue Reading...
My Lai Massacre
The Milgram Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, and Understanding the My Lai Massacre
In the twentieth century the United States military was engaged in numerous wars and the U.S. government depicted these wars as forces of good, freedom, Continue Reading...
Hemingway Analysis
The Returning of Soldiers from Combat in America
"Soldiers Home"
Although Earnest Hemmingway's, "Soldiers Home" (187) was written in 1925, and the war at that time was different, there are several things in the story that still Continue Reading...
Magnesium was in great demand during World War II. It was described as the wonder metal and used for incendiary munitions casings and airplane engines, frames, and other parts. The processing of magnesium is multi-step task using significant amount Continue Reading...
The book is constructed on two main theses, the first revolving around the relevance of the Barbary wars in the freeing of the American population and in its formation as stable and confident people. The second thesis focuses on the Tripolitan war Continue Reading...
Washington Post (1 Oct, 2006) wrote: "Powell had thrown his considerable personal and professional reputation behind the administration's charges that Iraq possessed chemical, biological and perhaps even nuclear weapons, and posed an imminent threat Continue Reading...
Primary Source Critique
Tacitus: "Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola"
Unlike our own period of time, the ancient Romans experienced very little angst about the prospect of colonizing a geographically and ethnically distinct people for the enrichment of Continue Reading...
Atomic bomb in Japan [...] President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb in Japan, and discuss why Truman's decision was the proper decision for the time. Choosing to use the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan was not an easy decision, or on Continue Reading...
generation to consider what the Civil War must have been like. Horrible fighting conditions, brother against brother, massive loss of human life - it was a bloody war on American soil. The wonderful, informative website, The Valley of the Shadow, ta Continue Reading...
letter will demonstrate that I have the talent you are looking for in a Pre-Rehabilitation student. I am dedicated to improving myself, and that is something I have proven my entire life. My service in the Army and National Guard is my strongest acc Continue Reading...