Book Report: “The Art of War” Name: Chapman‚ Cameron L. Rank: Cpl Unit:PMO‚ H&S BN‚ BCO Date: 19 May 2015 Book: “The Art of War” Author: Sun Tzu The book “The Art Of War” is about looking into the leaderships point of view on tactics and war-fighting skills‚ such as management of troops. This book was written in view of military commanders and tactics they used to win wars and battles. In this book report I will be giving incite on the positive and negative decisions on the leadership
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Graduate school February 24‚ 2014 Result of Iraq War In March 20‚ 2003‚ the Iraq War was an invasion force led by the United States. In the beginning‚ the government led by George W. Bush claimed that this military operation was necessary in order to attack terrorism and eliminate the extensive chemical weapons. However‚ the Iraq War killed hundreds of thousands of people‚ and the United States has billions of dollars in debt. The huge social unrest that the war caused in Iraq‚ happen despite the lack of
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was the first war that issued full freedom to the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When the North
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Persian Wars Persians wars were sequences of conflicts contested between Persia and ancient Greece‚ where the two were both ancient civilizations. The Greeks were successions of sovereign city states‚ and the most influential cities were Sparta and Athens. Athens had numerous celebrated philosophers and thinkers along having the privilege of being the first world’s democratic government. The people of Athens mostly depended on trade to obtain resources to be used to run the government. On the other
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In Search of the Trojan War The Trojan War was a war that was fought between the early Greeks‚ the Mycenaean’s and the people of Troy that lasted approximately ten years. It was a long‚ bloody‚ and destructive war that caused numerous tragedies‚ yet it was also a time for warriors to prove they were heroic and for the gods to step in and help. Although historians believe that many of the Trojan War stories could very well be myths‚ some historians are still looking for facts to support these
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COLD WAR The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLD WAR At the end of World War II‚ English author and journalist George Orwell used Cold war‚ as a general term‚ in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"‚ published October 19‚ 1945‚ in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating
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Why War? Is war inevitable? It appears that the answer to this question is yes. However‚ war is unpredictable and must be studied based on individual circumstances‚ actions taken‚ and reactions. States disagree with each other on many subjects and conflicts arise often. To answer this question‚ we must first examine the causes of a conflict‚ evaluate the outcome and determine any alternatives that may exist. Then we can analyze some alternative theoretical outcomes compared to the actual
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and “The Wars” Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He has written many novels such as The Last of the Crazy People and The Butterfly Plague. Findley also writes an extraordinary novel titled The Wars. This novel is about a young man whose name is Robert Ross and is on his way to war because he feels guilty about the death of his sister. Mentally and physically he is not ready for war because he feels much violated of his privacy. As Robert is in the war to end all wars‚ his family
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Analytical Review of A Rumor Of War Philip Caputo‚ the author of A Rumor of War‚ was born in 1941. He grew up to be an American author and journalist. Caputo is best known for A Rumor of War but has written 14 other books. He attended college at Loyola University of Chicago and after receiving his college education‚ in 1965 he went to serve in the Republic of Vietnam as a platoon commander in the United States Marine Corps. He served in combat and also received a number of awards and medals
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Topic: How the Cold War began‚ ended‚ and Canada’s involvement in the Cold War. In October 1962‚ U.S. planes spotted that the USSR was installing nuclear missile bases in Cuba. These images showed that the threat of a nuclear war could be coming true‚ and the United States would be vulnerable to get attacked within minutes. The world sank into panic until the Soviet Premier agreed to dismantle the missiles. How close it was the whole world could have been set on fire and destroyed! The ideological
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