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    Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address‚ 1985 Balance of Power‚ Defense‚ and Security In reading the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address‚ the three concepts that I found to be of meaning to me are the Balance of Power‚ Defense in terms of military strength‚ and Security for the means of protecting this nation at a time when super-power uncertainty between the United States and the Soviet Union was unbalanced. In 1985‚ the United States and the Soviet Union relations

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    President[3][4]‚ and a poll conducted by news channel CNN-IBN named him "India’s Best President". Before his term as India’s president‚ he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO andISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.[5]. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer. Kalam played a pivotal organisational‚ technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998‚ the

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    The United States of America – a pure warmonger or just a defender of the free world? The United States has arguably been a nation which has changed the world multiple times since its foundation when they declared their independence from Britain in 1776. After the 18th century the US has been involved in several conflicts‚ not just within the country‚ but also in foreign lands. And today‚ America is still a powerhouse in both military and economically. And lately‚ USA has been stamped as aggressor

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    causes of war. Most of the accidents and close calls are probably still hidden away‚ yet to be uncovered by historians. Cirincione mentions one we know of in 1995 when Russia mistook a Norwegian weather rocket for a US submarine-launched ballistic missile. Yeltsin had only a few minutes to launch havoc on the world‚ but he decided that the “information” must be a mistake. Since the 1980’s‚ the two superpowers have reduced their nuclear weapons by almost 70%. Today‚ we still have more nuclear

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    Bharat Ratna Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (i/ˈæbdʊl kəˈlɑːm/; born 15 October 1931) usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam‚ is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram‚ Tamil Nadu‚ studied physics at the St. Joseph’s College‚ Tiruchirappalli‚ and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT)‚ Chennai. Kalam served as the 11th President of India‚ succeeding K. R. Narayanan

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    In the fall of 1971‚ as President Nixon was attempting to convince The Soviet Union to include submarines and ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)‚ the US Navy was planning on introducing a new class of submarines called the Trident. The Trident submarines were to succeed the Polaris submarines‚ which was developed in the 1950s. The Trident submarines were not only physically larger than the Polaris submarines‚ they also possessed revolutionary propulsion components and

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    “Why did détente develop between 1969 and 1979?” Détente developed between 1969 and 1979 due to improved relations between the USA and the USSR. The end of the Vietnam War improved relations between the USA‚ USSR and China. Leaders were in contact and numerous summits such as SALT 1 and the Helsinki Accords were held between leaders bringing reform across Europe. The arms race had slowed up as no country had progressed any further from the reality of Mutually Assured Destruction. On top of this

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    when looking at both the republican and democrat party. These five issues are national defense‚ healthcare‚ energy‚ education‚ and the economy. Republicans believe in defending the home land‚ confronting global terrorism‚ nuclear threats‚ ballistic missile defense and intelligence communications. Democrats want to end the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan‚ preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons‚ maintaining the worlds largest military‚ strengthening alliances and advancing universal values

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    COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS: THE FUTURE OF MODERN MILITARIES Introduction (250) Future of Warfare (200) Yet conflict today has evolved dramatically from the conventional “big war” environment of the ALB world of the 1980s. Rather than a nation-state adversary armed with conventional military capabilities that very much mirrored our own‚ today we are dealing with a world of asymmetrical threats—fighting shadowy adversaries often operating at the murky nexus of terrorism‚ transnational crime

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    Why should the Western Countries begin to fear Joseph Stalin’s actions within the year 1945? Looking within the Cold War‚ many people believe and wonder over the origins and the causes of the Cold War and the actions of which preceded it and caused such anger between Truman‚ Churchill and Stalin. It was established before the date of where the Cold War had first started‚ that there was growing conflict between the world leaders of Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Great Britain} Harry S Truman

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