of war‚ but they were religious in nature rather than political. Early in Rome’s history‚ Rome fought neighbouring cities which had gods similar to the Roman gods. Those foreign gods were often considered to be roughly equal in power to the Roman gods. The Romans undertook elaborate steps to ensure they - and not the enemy - would receive the favour of the gods. The proces began with the Romans having (or making up) some legitimate cause for war‚ a grievance of some sort. Before declaring war‚ they
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Notice for Scholars This monograph was originally published as the September 1972 issue of Southeast Asian Perspectives‚ a publication of the American Friends of Vietnam‚ an organization which was formed in 1955 and prior to its demise two decades later included on its board such diverse figures as Senators John F. Kennedy and Mike Mansfield‚ Socialist Party Chairman Norman Thomas‚ and Journalist Robert Shaplen. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Please note that in formatting
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The Land of the Morning Calm A Short History of the Korean War James Stokesbury 1. Describe the location‚ dimensions and shape of the Korean peninsula. • The Korean peninsula stretches for almost 600 miles long. While the width varies‚ it ranges from about 90-200 miles. The total area is about 85‚000 square miles. The shape of the peninsula resembles an elongated New Jersey. 2. What two rivers form the northern‚ land boundary of Korea? • Yalu River (between North Korea and
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The Opium War‚ also called the Anglo-Chinese War‚ was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered. In European history‚ it is perhaps the most sordid‚ base‚ and vicious event in European history‚ possibly‚ just possibly‚ overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. By the 1830’s‚ the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth
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POL SCI 180 PATRICK COATY WAR ON TERROR I‚ myself‚ before September 11‚ 2001 did not know what terrorism was. It is completely a new term for me‚ and I could never figure how terrible it is. But then‚ experiencing and witnessing the feeling of losing the one you loved who was a victim of that disaster‚ I recognized that the world is no longer as safe as before. Today‚ not only America but also Britain‚ Spain‚ Indonesia…became the target of terrorists. The terror tissue is the most challenged
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Daily Life During The Civil War Training To be an effective soldier in the Civil War‚ a man needed to know much more than how to drill on the parade ground and how to fire his musket. It was mostly the hard school of experience that turned a green recruit fresh from his country home into a lean‚ weatherbeaten soldier who was able to march all night and fight all day on scant rations. Many volunteers did not survive long enough to make the transition. Adaptation to army discipline and regimentation
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The Cold War is often thought of a war only between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America‚ however that is not the case. There were proxy wars in countries like Vietnam‚ Korea and Pakistan. The Cold War itself is a complicated subject that was seen as “good (capitalism)” vs. bad (communism)”‚ which in itself was a bad idea that wouldn’t allow for a case by case analysis of the conflicts around the world. But in a time of “Domino Theory”‚ President Eisenhower’s
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The Vietnam War versus the Iraq War With a husband in the Army and currently on his third deployment to Iraq‚ I am often asked how I think this war is different from past wars. In order to answer this question properly‚ I found that I needed to do a little bit of research and acquaint myself with some war history. As I learned about previous wars that Americans have been involved in‚ I learned that only two wars have had a great deal of controversy. The Vietnam War and the Iraq War‚ while almost
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The Economic benefits of war outweigh the costs. Discuss. The last century witnessed a proliferation of warfare unparalleled in the history of mankind‚ that same century however witnessed also an unparalleled expansion of human economic activity. The two would appear to be linked; war is fundamentally an economic activity. Fighting a war forces an economy to equip large numbers of men with a wide variety of equipment‚ in addition to building warships‚ warplanes and tanks. This equipment has to be
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September 2010 What is the Purpose of War? War is used as a method for feuding countries as a way of solving conflict‚ when in reality‚ that is not the solution to a problem at all. War can be described as the waging of armed conflict against an enemy‚ an act to fight for what is right‚ or a harmful way of getting what one desires. We may not know what exactly war is but we do know its purpose. Every war is not the same‚ neither are its purposes. Wars have numerous purposes‚ from maintaining
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