UPS D1 – Evaluate the impact of war‚ conflict and terrorism on one UK Public Service For this assignment I have decided to specifically look at how the British Army are affected. WAR If there is a war and NATO decides that the UK needs to provide direct military action then the British Army will have to be prepared. War affects the army as an organisation because it means they will lose soldiers and have to retrain new ones. An example of this would be the crash of Nimrod XV230 which killed
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: World War I’s Worst General Even so‚ a staff colonel had the cheek to write: "The events of July 1st bore out the conclusions of the British higher command and amply justified the tactical methods employed." Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig‚ chief of staff of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and architect of the battle‚ evidently agreed. On the day after the debacle‚ stating that the enemy "has undoubtedly been shaken and has few reserves in hand‚" he discussed
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Britain help defeat the Japanese in the Burma Campaign? Contents 1 Plan of investigation 1 2 Summary of evidence 2 2.1 The Situation in North-Eastern India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 The British Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.3 The Indian Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.4 The Japanese Forces . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lyndon‚ we witness the British army walking unto the battlefield. They walk with poise and confidence‚ showing no fear and readiness to fight. On the other side‚ we see the French‚ positioned and prepared for the oncoming attack. As the British army comes ever closer‚ the French launch their first round of shots. Many men from the British infantry fall‚ but the army continues forward‚ almost unfazed by the events that have occurred. The French fire more shots‚ and more British men fall. Finally‚ during
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home from the meeting‚ Adam secretly listens in to his father telling his wife Sarah and Granny Cooper about news he heard at the meeting. He was talking about the British army potentially confronting us‚ so the colonial community is preparing. In Lexington‚ sometime after midnight the community is awakened with news that the British Army is on the march to Concord to take out munitions being stored by colonists for a possible rebellion. A muster‚ which is assemble troops‚ for inspection or in preparation
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deployment of British troops to Boston. Described as “a person of simple tastes and few pretensions‚” the king is shown to slowly feel disdain towards America. 2: Chapter 2 depicts the conditions in America. It outlines the leaders of the army and a few who were representing the colonies. It described the American army to be made of “undisciplined‚ poorly armed volunteer force of farmers‚” with morale decreasing continually until the New Year‚ 1776. 3: Chapter 3 started out with the British point of
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The Triumphant Side of the American Revolution The American Revolution was a war between the thirteen colonies of America and the British that took place from 1775 to 1783. The colonies‚ which had not yet been unified‚ wanted freedom from the domineering British and their "taxation without representation". This saying‚ coined up twenty years prior to the beginning of the war‚ was a major slogan for the revolutionaries. The quote means‚ "If citizens are not represented in the government‚ then the
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The Trench is a color‚ British‚ 98 minute drama film that was released in 1999‚ produced by Steven Clark Hall‚ written and directed by William Boyd and distributed by Somme Productions. According to Nicholas J. Cull‚ University of Leicester: “In 1916‚ a British filmmaker named Geoffrey Mallins made and released a one-hour film of life in the British trenches entitled The Battle of the Somme. It captured the imagination of the British public at the time with a host of memorable images‚ the most
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something like this happens it makes people push to a new level for their rights and to just have their rights but most of all why they should have their rights. For many years the people of Ireland have been reaching for their freedom from the British‚ there has been a lot of blood‚ tears‚ and pain over the years. But on January 30th‚ 1972 also known as Bloody Sunday the people of Northern Ireland gained a new understanding of the rights they had. On this day there was a Northern Ireland
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Bibliography: Bardon‚ Jonathan. A History of Ulster. Blackstaff Press Limited‚ 2005. Derkins‚ Susie. The Irish Republican Army. New York‚ NY: Rosen Group‚ 2002. Edwards‚ Aaron Ellison‚ Graham and Jim Smyth. The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland. Sterling‚ VA: Pluto Press‚ 2000. Henriksen‚ Thomas. What Really Happened in Northern Ireland’s Counterinsurgency: Revision
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