Warfare

Global terrorism has affected many aspects, from an economic to a social angle. The outrage of incorporating security features to any prominent person emerged due to continuous threats channeled to the policy-making fraternity. President George Bush adopted an aggressive and speedy type of response to any threats of terror attacks...

With World War II came new but grim ideologies coupled with the state-sponsored mass murder of inferior groups, including Jews, intellectually disabled, homosexuals, Roma, and dissidents. During the Nazi rule in Germany, concentration and extermination camps were set up in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, Chelmno, and Sobibor, to name a few:...

On 28th June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the one who was expected to inherit the throne in Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo by trained assassins who are believed to have been from Serbia. In an earlier attempt during that day of his assassination, the assassins had missed their target subjecting...

Introduction The Vietnam War emerged in 1954 when the nationalist forces defeated their French colonial masters. The French were not happy with the loss since it could mean that they fully lost control and economic domination in the region. The Vietnamese nationalist advocated for communist rule which offered a major...

Terrorism: An overview The world has not remained the same since 9/11. It has captured the layman’s attention to the religious-political phenomena of violence that are terrorism. In the past decade, places like London, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, America, and the West Bank have been targeted by different terrorist groups,...

Introduction Terrorism has been a great concern in the current history of the world. Over the last 50 years different countries have developed different measures to prevent terrorist attacks. There are challenges facing these countries in curbing terrorism which differ from one country to another. Up to this day, the...

Aims of the project The main aim of this project is to investigate the impact of U.S. unilateralism and the new foreign policy after September 11th, 2001. I am taking the Iraq invasion as the case study. The research will center on the spectacular transformation of the lawless nature of...

Outline On September 11, 2001, well-orchestrated terrorist attacks were successfully carried out on American soil. Over 3000 people of different nationalities were indistinctively and mercilessly killed in an operation that lasted barely two hours. This event changed the world; bringing into the limelight, a new era of terrorism. What motivated...

Introduction The Second World War is the biggest war to ever have been waged by nations against nations to this day. Almost all nations in the world were involved in the war either directly or indirectly in WWII leading to an unprecedented large-scale loss of life and rampant destruction of...

The First World War was a defining moment in the history of human conflict. It was for the first time that a war encompassed such a vast area of the world. The subsequent conduct and the results of the war make it fundamentally different than the wars that preceded it....

War… Listening to these words, it is impossible to stay calm. A lot of frightening and horrible pictures appear in the memory, which was seen in the movies about wars or TV programs with documentary videos. War is a cruel and terrible affair and it is impossible to avoid the...

In 1954 Vietnam was divided into two parts; the communist north and the non communist south. Subsequently several developments took place that resulted in a full scale war between North and South Vietnam which also involved America, Australia and some other nations. America supported the democratic South Vietnam and although...

‘Iraq resolution’ and ‘Iraq war resolution’ are famous synonyms for the authorization of the application of military force against Iraq. Resolution of 2002, was a law enacted by the United States congress in the same year. The resolution put forward many reasons to legitimize the use of force against the...

The First World War The First World War was fought between 1914 and 1918 with catastrophic results to the countries that were involved and the rest of the world in general. The war took place in Europe, its colonies and the surrounding seas placing a heavy toll on human lives...

The relations of people in the human society are complicated by such phenomena as terrorism and other violent and unlawful actions of people. To fight these actions, the intelligence services are developed in every country, and the United States of America is not an exception (Lowenthal, 2008). The events of...

Political leaders come and go. But perhaps there is no leader who has been able to catapult the world’s political scene more than Adolf Hitler of the German Nazi Party did; rising from the unknown to the world’s best remembered dictator. Known for his ability to dominate people and instigate...

Introduction World War one was a very complex war that involved the whole of Europe and eventually spread to the rest of the world. This war led to the loss of millions of lives. It is considered the bloodiest war in human history and dubbed the Great War. Many historians...

Both today and in the past many terrorist groups showed evidence of a strong religious component. Some of today’s terrorist groups can no longer specifically be considered as secular terrorist groups with specific nationalist and socialist goals. While often calling for socio-economic improvement for their nation, their motivation is religious....

How and why did the wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorate into a cold war? During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were held together by the common objective of defeating Nazi Germany. Political disputes plagued the wartime alliance especially those...

Introduction Throughout history, women have played indispensable roles in armed conflicts by participating either actively or passively. They have supported men by performing non-military duties such as being messengers, nurses, or simply providing food for soldiers. In other war times, women have simply filled in the roles played by men...

Introduction The Israel- Palestinian war started in 1948, it is also known as the war of independence by Palestinians. Also, it is called Arab- Israel war. It all sparked with the establishment of the state of Israel after hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced. Since then, the conflict has...

Undoubtedly, the post-9/11 American domestic and foreign policies have significantly changed. Some of the experts note that the terrorists’ attack laid down the foundation of democratic failure. Racial profiling, in particular, is seen as violation of civil rights and liberties of people who are targeted for additional questioning based on...

The World War II coincides with reigning of cooperative federalism in the American policy. According to the principles of the cooperative federalism, national, state, and local governments are expected to solve common problems (for the World War II they were employment, civil defense, wartime rationing and the like) together. Though...

Appeasement as the Main Strategy Leading up to World War II Among the strategies to which the allies resorted when managing the aftermath of the Great War, there was the method of appeasement. The policy presupposed making material and political allowances to the aggressive states with the aim of alleviating...

Introduction The opposition to the Vietnam War began in 1964 with students from various colleges in the United States participating in protests aimed at pressing the governing authority to end the war. The mounting number of US troop casualties in the war was a key factor contributing to student protests....

Introduction Terrorism is aggression as well as wickedness incorporated to create destruction, threaten, and destabilize the ruling class and civil society, and the environment at large, to fundamentally advance stealth ideological reasons. This evil purpose, includes all operations of hatred unreasonably dedicated by personalities, assemblages or positions in opposition to...