and were supporting the communist forces. They weren’t fighting for the North Vietnamese but were very anti- United States and disliked their policies. One of the US POWs subjected to this treatment died of the torture. US intelligence learned of this event as soon as US POWs returned in Operation Homecoming‚ spring 1973. American POWs called the term "Cuban Program" to describe a program in which a small group of interrogators brutally beat and tortured 19 Americans. Many of the soldiers were subjected
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The Just War Tradition is a justification for how and why wars are fought. A just cause is clearly the most important rule setting the tone for everything else.1 The two basic rights for a just cause are the rights of the state and those of individual citizens. International law affirms these rights and further identifies legitimate governments (states) to have rights.2 To be legitimate the state must be recognized as legitimate by its people and by the international community. The state avoids
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The U.S. Government is grossly hypocritical on torture of prisoners. In the case of POWs captured and held at Bagram air base in Afghanistan‚ an anonymous official said ‘We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.’ The USA Patriot Act was rushed into law in
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Hybrid Warfare or Asymmetric Warfare? To have a discussion on hybrid warfare‚ we need to have a clear idea of what are the differences between conventional and hybrid warfare are. Conventional warfare is a nonnuclear conflict with rules of engagement formed by an agreement or compact. These rules for conventional warfare are spelled out by the Law of War and cover acceptable weapons‚ treatment of prisoners‚ torture‚ surrender‚ and much more. Unconventional is best described as guerilla and covert
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The writer Thomas Wolfe once said‚ “If a man has talent and cannot use it‚ he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it‚ he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use to the whole of it‚ he has gloriously succeeded‚ and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.” In the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand‚ Louis Zamperini definitely used his skills to the fullest‚ Knowing his capabilities‚ Louie pushed himself to do his best no matter the circumstances
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heir language forms and features. The composer John Misto of ‘Shoe-Horn Sonata’ creates a wide image of distinctive visual techniques through imagery. John Misto uses this visual technique to raise awareness of the damaged chaos that occurred to the women who have been captured by the Japanese. By using distinctively visual techniques Misto allows the viewers to empathise with the crucial actors/segregation that the Japanese people were showing towards the women. “I wanted to cry. But I reminded
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The Last Stand of Fox Company 1. In as few words as possible‚ what is this book about? This book is a true story about a company from 2nd Battalion‚ 7th Marine Regiment‚ during the Chosin Reservoir in November of 1950 when China was getting involved in the Korean War. The company had to hold a hill so that other Marine units could fight their way clear of the Chinese and make it to the coast to get out of North Korea. 2. What made you want to read it? It was suggested that I read it by
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According to a small selection of biographies and autobiographies of British and Indian WWII veterans‚ there were important commonalities in the backgrounds of the soldiers and commonalities along with some differences for motivations to enlist. There were commonalities in their background in the selections because both British and Indians had many different classes in their society enlist. The commonalties in motivations to enlist stem from the less wealthy British and Indian soldiers mostly joining
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QUESTION 1. [pic] ANSWER 1. French and Raven were the noted Social Psychologists who introduced their own bases of leadership and power. The main objective of French and Raven to create their own base to determine the communication takes place between the organization and work force. French & Raven introduce five bases of power Coercive‚ Reward‚ Legitimate‚ Referent‚ and Expert. While considering the case of Jake and Terry except the power of coercion all the other powers were flowing
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launched a criminal investigation into the massacre‚ but the case was terminated in 2004‚ its findings were classified as top secret‚ and it appeared that the tragedy would once again be subject to "historical amnesia." Discussion The Poles fell as POWs into Soviet hands just after the Soviet Red Army occupied the eastern half of Poland under the terms of two notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop pacts: the Nazi-Soviet agreements signed between the USSR and Nazi Germany in August and September 1939. The crime
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