For as far back as mankind dates back in it’s existence‚ there has always been and always will be war. History all throughout the world holds numerous acts of war dating all the way back to the early years of civilization‚ up until even today’s most recent problems. I believe war is a perfectly necessary action‚ especially when a hostile force makes unjustifiable attacks that put the safety of our country at jeopardy. This does not mean that every issue’s solution has to be war. Simply‚ this means
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war explore ways to win. Tanks‚ chemical warfare‚ and powered flight are highly significant technologies that affected the war effort. Tanks could cross barbed wire‚ and pass through no man’s land easily. They didn’t go fast and broke down multiple times‚ but they could resolve a stalemate. Soldiers fled into the trenches as they couldn’t create a dent in the other side. Tanks allowed the war to progress and finally come to a resolution. Chemical warfare was a more cruel way to win the war. There
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“Lions led by Donkeys.” How accurate an assessment is this of the British Army on the Western Front in the First World War? Written by Alan Clark a politician in the 1960s this quotation describes the leadership of the British Military and their strategies used in the Great War. It suggests that soldiers fighting in the World War were brave and courageous as he refers to them as lions. In comparison their leaders‚ the generals were mindless and stupid like donkeys. By holding these characteristics
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THE TRIREME By: Dimitri Oared warships‚ lie at the heart of the Hellenic civilization ’s history of which the Trireme is the most famous. In the seventh and sixth centuries BC they transported the colonists from their mother cities to all parts of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In 480 BC the Greeks won possibly their most significant battle against the much larger Persian fleet in the narrow waters of Salamis. Athens supremacy at sea was founded upon the crucial role that
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Cited: Futrell‚ Robert Frank. Ideas‚ Concepts‚ Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force‚ 1907-1960 Morrow Jr.‚ John H. A History of Air Warfare‚ 1st ed.‚ Chapter 1‚ The First World War‚ 1914-1919
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Already‚ we are presented with two contrasting views of Stanhope. By considering the way in which both characters discuss him‚ we can address the question of whether or not Stanhope possesses heroic qualities. The play depicts the horror of trench warfare; it gives us an insight into what life is like in the war‚ the reality of the war and the reality of heroism. Heroism is to show great courage and bravery. A lot of men in the war signed up because when the war was over they wanted to be seen as a
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The Ethics (moral principle) of Biowarfare Daniel Reyes articlehighlights Nations need to take preventative measures to curb the development and proliferation of biological and chemical weapons‚ such as: * adopting a scientific code of ethics * incorporating ethics into graduate science courses * formulating accountability mechanisms for research * raising academic‚ industry‚ and public awareness of ethical issues Introduction: A Modern Day Trojan Horse * The 2001 anthrax
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Eye Deep In Hell World War I was a devastating series of battles with extraordinary casualties. It was particularly demoralizing to the average soldier and a sense of hopelessness was not uncommon. Why then were the soldiers who fought during the Great War so motivated to continue fighting? How was their motivation different from that of the soldiers during the 30 Years War? To answer these questions you must look to the individual soldier and their reasons for fighting. During the 30 Years
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Web. . Eisler‚ Peter. "Chemical Weapons Disposal on Fast Track." USA TODAY 5 May 2009: Web. 24 Dec 2009. . Olson‚ Kyle. "Aum Shinriko: Once and Future Threat?." CDC-Emerging Infectious Diseases 5.4 (1999). Web. 24 Dec 2009. . Sasheedran‚ "WARFARE." WARFARE. 1999. ThinkQuest‚ Web. 24 Dec 2009. .
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Bibliography: Gray‚ C. S.‚ (2005) ‘Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare’ (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Howlett‚ Darryl ‘Nuclear Proliferation’ in John Baylis and Steve Smith‚ The Globalisation of World Politics (Oxford: OUP‚ 2001‚ second edition) Kissinger‚ H. (1994) “Diplomacy” (New York: Simon & Schuster) Mazarr‚
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