the opposite is evident. Battle tactics are for anyone to use‚ but work best with military’s that are stable and continually training. In many cases‚ militaries throughout the world can be seen using the same tactics today as used in the 2nd Punic War particularly The Battle of Cannae. What make tactics improve so well is the repetition of both practicing in training and executing tactics on the battlefield. Battle tactics improved with the establishment of a professional military because‚ most
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China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press‚ 2010. Illustrations‚ maps. 664 pp. $65.00 (cloth)‚ ISBN 978-0-8047-6206-9. Reviewed by Roger H. Brown (Saitama University) Published on H-War (December‚ 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 was immense both in its scale and consequences. Nevertheless‚ Western military histories of World War II have focused overwhelmingly on the campaigns of the European
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world 6. References The Battle of Đien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union ’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. Military historian Martin Windrow wrote that Đien Bien Phu was "the first time that a non-European
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The Opium War in the year 1839 to 1856 changed China’s trade policy with other countries especially with the British. The Opium War was a major turning point for China affecting a great number of their population of 400 million. China changed from being self-sufficient to being forced to sign the Nanking and Tientsin treaties with the British and the French. Due to China’s overconfidence and unwelcome attitude toward foreigners and opium‚ it caused the British to declare the Opium War against China
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The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene‚ first published in United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002. The book draws on Greene ’s experiences as a war correspondent for The Times and Le Figaro in French Indochina 1951-1954. He was apparently inspired to write The Quiet American in October 1951 while driving back to Saigon from the Ben Tre province. He was accompanied by an American aid worker who lectured him
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The responsibility for the Punic wars greatly shifts from one to the next as both Rome and Carthage were Superpowers in their own right and it was inevitable that there would be a collision and subsequent reaction from any action taken. This exhausting conflict was‚ according to Caven‚ a ‘contest in three rounds’ in which the Romans fought first for control of Sicily‚ then for the leadership of the western Mediterranean and finally to determine the survival or extinction of Carthage. By 270
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As the war between the Soviet Union and America continued throughout the 1940’s and early 1950’s‚ panic over the alleged threat of communism began to take over America and later became known as the Red Scare‚ since the Soviet Union was known as the reds for their allegiance to the Soviet flag. The Red Scare would have brought about a chain of events that would significantly influence the US government and society. Three major events in 1948 and 1949 brought the American fear of Communism to a fever
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working as a journalist for the Nottingham Journal and The Times; it was during his work with The Times that Greene was inspired to write The Quiet American‚ a novel drawing upon the life of a young British journalist during the French Indo-Chinese war of the 1950s. In October 1951‚ Greene was travelling between Saigon and the Ben Tre province‚ during which time he was accompanied by an American aid worker who ‘lectured him about finding a “third force in Vietnam”’; these series of events eventually
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How has the First Opium War affect China’s imports? During the Qing dynasty‚ the Qing government wasn’t very fond of trade or any kind of contact with the outside world. If they found something they disliked‚ they would destroy it or throw it away. Britain was facing a problem at this time: they wanted silk‚ and porcelain‚ which were mainly in China. At the same time though‚ China didn’t really want any of Britain’s items. Britain was paying for all the Chinese items with silver‚ the only value
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The Tet Offensive had a major impact upon the outcome of the Second Indochina War‚ particularly due to the fact that it powerfully swayed public opinion in America of the Vietnam War. The American publics’ option of the Vietnam War beforehand had been strongly leaning toward their involvement in favor of conscription. However after the devastating loss of the Tet offensive much exposure was not put onto the war effort and the losses incurred. Many stated that Tet was fruitless and futile
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